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  • True Political Power

    An X post from February: There’s a lot of talk right now about Christians (and conservatives) learning to embrace and wield political power — something we have not really done for quite some time. This is all well and good. Being afraid of power is immature and irresponsible. Christians should seek to gain political power… Read more

  • The Eschatological Life

    The Christian life is an eschatological life, lived in the power of the Spirit. It is resurrection life, the life of the future already breaking into the present. We have been delivered from an uneschatological moralism. The Christian is called to Pneumatological obedience, fulfilling the law in the power of the Spirit. Note that word… Read more

  • Christian Nationalism and the Noahic Covenant

    This is from an X post from October, 2024, responding to this Paul Miller talk: Paul Miller’s talk was maddening. It’s not that everything he said is false, it’s that he managed to mix error into every single sentence, even those that included hints of the truth.  I’ll limit myself to commenting on one aspect… Read more

  • Church in Three Dimensions

    The church exists in three dimensions — as a culture, a counter-culture, and the transformer of culture: Church as culture — gathered worship/community — priestly Church as counter-culture — mission/mercy/”holy war” — kingly Church as transformer of culture — creating a new world through word and deed — prophetic Read more

  • Nature and Grace — Again!

    What is the proper relationship of grace and nature?  When grace eats up nature, you end up with the antinomianism of progressivism. There is no natural order inherent in creation to which we must conform. There is no divine design embedded in reality, so anything goes. You can be whatever you want to be. You… Read more

  • What is America? Some Notes from X

    We must push back against both propositionalism and race-essentialism. Both approaches are too shallow to effectively answer the question, “What is a nation?” We have to reckon with the fact that there is much about America that is unique, and thus the question, “What is America?,” or, “What is an American?,” becomes a good bit… Read more