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July 2026 – Notes and Miscellanies: Agency, Failure, Righteous Deception, Genesis 2-3 and Effeminacy, Parental Discipline, Hitler/Nazism, Churchill on Bolshevism, Affordability Crisis, Trauma, Anxiety, Cultural Transformation/Measures of the Mission, Ordered Liberty/Bounded Existence, Socialism, Alvin York, Christendom and Forced Conversions, Anarcho-Tyranny, Love for Enemies, Machiavelli, Nixon/China, George Washington, Marxism, Religious Liberty, Locke, The Jews, Birth Rates, Kuyperianism, 1 Peter 3:1-7, Dispensationalism, Romans 11, Anti-Whiteness, Rousseau, Christian Nationalism, Immigration, Slavery, White Knights, Classical Liberalism, Headcoverings, America’s Christian Founding/America at 250, Patriarchy, Civil War/Slavery
Our culture is waging a war on agency. The ultimate conspiracy is that the cultural elites want us to think nothing we do matters because everything is a conspiracy. Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Government….you can’t possibly fight all the “bigs” so why bother? You’re just a pawn in their game so give up and… Read more
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A Compact Roadmap of American History, Part 3
Where do we go from here? Depending on one’s perspective, the American story can plausibly be interpreted in different ways. Looked at from past to present, we can see a great deal of continuity from medieval Christendom and the Reformation to America’s founding. The War for Independence, after all, was largely led by the “black… Read more
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A Compact Roadmap of American History, Part 2
Civic Religion: American or Christian? We have already traced out the basic contours of the shift in America from an ecclesiocentric, theocratic social order to a secular one. Building on Locke and Hobbes, the Enlightenment accomplished an astonishing coup of Christendom. That victory for the secularists was only possible because Christians were too busy fighting… Read more
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A Compact Roadmap of American History, Part 1
[This series was written in the early 2000s when I was an assistant pastor at Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church in Monroe, LA. I would say some things differently now, but the gist of these essays is as relevant today as when I wrote them over two decades ago. This is my attempt to show the… Read more
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“Building on the Promises” Campaign (so far)
Our church began a building/school campaign last October. Fund raising for the new sanctuary/classroom building has gone well and Trinity Classical Academy starts classes in just over three weeks. Here’s a quick run down of resources on the campaign thus far: Sermons: October 19, 2025 Building on the Promises (Part 1) — From Here to… Read more
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Who is the God of the Declaration of Independence?
In my recent “America at 250” sermon, I made the case that America had a Christian founding. This does not mean everyone was a Christian obviously, nor does it mean that our system of government or culture were without any flaws. But the people, the culture, and the institutions that defined America from the colonial… Read more