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  • Israel in Exile and the Politics of the Kingdom

    Some Christians use the motif of Israel’s exile to justify why Christians should not have (or seek) political power and cultural influence. We live in Babylon, so we cannot expect very much transformation of the world around us. We “lose down here,” as the saying goes. There’s no need to fight a “culture war” or… Read more

  • Charles Hodge on America’s Christian Founding

    “The demands of those who require that religion, and especially Christianity, should be ignored in our national, state, and municipal laws, are not only unreasonable, but they are in the highest degree unjust and tyrannical.” —Charles Hodge — “The proposition that the United States of America are a Christian and Protestant nation, is not so… Read more

  • 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… Read more

  • Trump and the IVF Travesty

    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… Read more

  • 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… Read more

  • “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… Read more