Author: Pastor Rich Lusk
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Note on Ecclesiocentric Christian Nationalism: A Discussion in the Early Stages
What is “Christian nationalism”? There are many varieties floating around, but here’s my stab at it. While Stephen Wolfe may have made the label prominent with his book, this is a much wider discussion. Megachurch pastors like Josh Howerton are using the label and defining carefully what they mean by it. Howerton has 25k+ in…
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Trump and the IVF Travesty
Trump’s plans to increase access to IVF treeatments are in the news cycle: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/trump-announces-efforts-to-expand-access-to-ivf-drugs.html Trump is right that we need to raise birth rates. He is dead wrong to encourage the use of IVF to do it. The way IVF is normally carried out results in dead babies. IVF kills more babies each year than…
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American Public Schools and the Soviet Strategy
If you were the communist leadership of the Soviet Union, and your goal was to eliminate religion from a country of 100 million people, how would you do it? You can’t really force people to stop being religious—because history shows that when you try to coerce religious people into abandoning their faith, you often make…
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“Building on the Promises” Update
This email went out to TPC today: TPC family, My conferences in Arizona and Kansas went very well. Both the CREC churches I visited are thriving It’s wonderful to see what God is doing across the country in our denomination. These are congregations that have experienced significant growth over the last few years, just as…
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The Folly of Women in Combat: A Parable of Moral and Cultural Decline
The drive to place women in combat is not an advance of civilization but a mark of its decay. It reveals a society that no longer knows what a woman is, what a man is, or why those differences once mattered. The story begins in 1978, when female sailors sued the U.S. Navy for the…
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Notes on Nature
[This is from an email discussion back in 2018.] In the aftermath of Obergefell, I wrote a paper that deals at least in a cursory way with nature, natural law, and sexual perversion. I also explore why appeals to nature are sometimes effective and sometimes not. See pages 2-16 of this essay:http://trinity-pres.net/essays/obergefellandamericaswarongod.pdf About the same…
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: A SHORT NOTE ON THE WILSON/JORDAN REGENERATION CONTROVERSY
I wrote this elsewhere as a footnote in another essay (http://trinity-pres.net/essays/obergefellandamericaswarongod.pdf), but since it islikely to get overlooked, I have pulled it out and turned it into itsown short paper for those who might be interested. The debatebetween Doug Wilson and Jim Jordan over regeneration pits two menwhom I respect and from whom I have…
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Christ’s Lordship Over the Nations: Why Christian Nationalism is Inseparable from the Gospel
Christian Nationalism is not an historical oddity. It’s been the historical norm for most of church history for most of the church. A nation that thinks it can be areligious, that thinks it can divorce religion from culture and politics, is the historical oddity. Secularism is the historical oddity. An atheistic public square has never…
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September ’25 X Posts and Other Notes: Socialism, America’s Founding, Third-Wayism/Kellerism, Progressivism, Political Preaching, Christendom/Christian Nationalism, Islam, MLK, Socialism and Wealth, Creation vs Evolution, Discipleship, Puritanism, Androgyny in the PCA, Racial Identity Politics, Immigration, Culture Wars, Kirk and Baucham, Polarized World, Nietzsche, Courage, Leftwing Political Violence, Etc.
If speech is violence, then violence is a justified response to speech. — We are now in polarized world. C. S. Lewis explained what is happening in our culture: “If you dip into any college, or school, or parish, or family—anything you like—at a given point in its history, you always find that there was…
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Some Notes on America’s Christian Founding
Classical liberalism, at least the America version of it, was very illiberal by the standards of modern liberalism. If America was founded as a classically liberal nation, consider all the evidence of our Christian founding: *The Mayflower Compact was explicitly Christian in character and content * 75% of those who declared independence were of Puritan…
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