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  • Jesus and the Nations: What the Christian Nationalism Debate Is Really About

    Jesus and the Nations: What the Christian Nationalism Debate Is Really About

    What kind of nation do we want to live in? What kind of nation should America be? Or to put it yet another way, what is good for America? What is good for Americans? Christian Nationalism is an attempt to answer that question. Of course, there isn ’t just one version of Christian Nationalism. Some Read more

  • Genesis 17:7: Christian Parenting 101

    “And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your children after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your children after you.” (Genesis 17:7) God never rescinded this promise. It is still in force. Christian parenting is not law, it is gospel. It is Read more

  • First Family: Properly Relating My Heavenly and Earthly Allegiences

    The church is my first family, but not my only family (1 Timothy 3:15; Ephesians 5:21ff). The church is my first nation, but not my only nation (1 Peter 2:9; Romans 9:2ff). My citizenship is in heaven, but that’s not my only citizenship – I am also a citizen in an earthly nation (Philippians 3:20; Read more

  • Home: What Christian Nationalism Is Really About

    Home: What Christian Nationalism Is Really About

    Christian nationalism grows out of and is undergirded by Christian familialism. There can be no Christian nation where there are not countless Christian families. And where there are happy and holy Christian families, the broader Christianization of the nation is sure to follow. Christian nationalism starts around the dining table. It starts in neighborhoods and Read more

  • Conquest’s Second Law

    These are old X posts, from August and November of 2024. — A thread on Conquests Second Law: Conquest’s Second Law states, roughly, “Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.” What Robert Conquest recognized in this law is that it takes more effort to build than to tear down, Read more

  • The “Real Presence” of Demons and the Lord’s Supper

    An X post and subsequent discussion: It’s interesting that some Christians are adamant that sacraments are only symbols. There is no “real presence” of Christ in the water, bread, or wine. But interestingly, Paul leaves no doubt about the “real presence” of demons in paganism’s religious feasts in 1 Cor. 10. Christians are not to Read more