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  • Interacting with Christian Nationalism (Part 6): Isker Counter-Punches

    Interacting with Christian Nationalism (Part 6): Isker Counter-Punches

    My friend Andrew Isker has weighed in on the Christian nationalism debate with a response to Peter Leithart’s short statement on Christian nationalism. A few weeks ago, Larson Hicks and I interviewed Isker about his book (co-authored with Andrew Torba) on Christian nationalism. Like Isker, I also noticed the dichotomy in Leithart’s piece on a nation seeking its own good… Read more

  • 2022 Ordination and Installation Sermons

    2022 Ordination and Installation Sermons

    Over the course of 2022, I have been honored and privileged to preach at a few ordination/installation services for some very good men in some very good churches. Here’s a recap. In April, I preached at the installation service for Matt Carpenter at Trinity Reformed in Huntsville. Trinity Reformed is a church we planted just… Read more

  • Interacting with Christian Nationalism (5): Mattson Weighs In

    Interacting with Christian Nationalism (5): Mattson Weighs In

    Mattson’s review of Wolfe’s book is well worth reading if you have been following the discussions on Christian nationalism. I might not agree with Mattson on every particular criticism and I certainly find a few more points of agreement with Wolfe’s social commentary in the second half of his book, but Mattson offers a pretty convincing… Read more

  • Interacting with Christian Nationalism (Part 4)

    Interacting with Christian Nationalism (Part 4)

    I appreciated a lot of Wolfe’s critique of VanDrunen’s radical two kingdom view, including the way he brought out its latent antinomianism. But there are still some problems with Wolfe’s two kingdom view, especially the heaven/earth, sacred/secular dualism built into it. I do not think Wolfe has done justice to the Calvinistic transformationalists (CT). Many… Read more

  • A Political Theology for the Present Moment

    A Political Theology for the Present Moment

    We do not live in the Christendom world inhabited by the Reformers. What it means to affirm a sacred/secular dichotomy in a Christendom situation is not the same as what it means to affirm that kind of dichotomy in a post-Christendom situation. We cannot just quote Althusius (or whoever) as if it were adequate to… Read more

  • A Quick Primer on What it Means to Be Ecclesiocentric

    A Quick Primer on What it Means to Be Ecclesiocentric

    Ecclesiocentrism is incredibly simple to understand and absolutely ubiquitous in Scripture. The church is the central and most important thing in the world and in history. That’s it — that’s the fundamental claim. Ecclesiocentrism can be found on almost every page of the Bible. Some examples: These paragraphs from Doug Wilson’s post this week is… Read more