Tag: christianity
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Notes on Reformation Day, All Saints Day, and the Church Calendar (Part 2)
[This post consists of notes and emails sent out to TPC over the years on this portion of the church calendar that falls at the end of October and the beginning of November.] REFORMATION DAY – OCTOBER 31 On the eve of All Saint’s Day (“Hallowed Eve,” or “Halloween,” as we call it today), in…
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Notes on Reformation Day, All Saints Day, and the Church Calendar
[This post consists of notes and emails sent out to TPC over the years on this portion of the church calendar that falls at the end of October and the beginning of November.] Every year towards the end of October, Christians begin to debate whether or not it is ok to “celebrate” Halloween. Ultimately, each…
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Work Until the Workday Is Done: A Lesson from Whitefield and Tennent
A summary and application of a story told by Iain Murray in his fine book, The Puritan Hope: George Whitefield was once among a group of pastors and they were discussing the burdens of ministry, how consoling it was to consider that this life would soon be over, and how glorious it would be when…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Notes on Nature
[This is from an email discussion back in 2018.] In the aftermath of Obergefell, I wrote a paper that deals at least in a cursory way with nature, natural law, and sexual perversion. I also explore why appeals to nature are sometimes effective and sometimes not. See pages 2-16 of this essay:http://trinity-pres.net/essays/obergefellandamericaswarongod.pdf About the same…
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: A SHORT NOTE ON THE WILSON/JORDAN REGENERATION CONTROVERSY
I wrote this elsewhere as a footnote in another essay (http://trinity-pres.net/essays/obergefellandamericaswarongod.pdf), but since it islikely to get overlooked, I have pulled it out and turned it into itsown short paper for those who might be interested. The debatebetween Doug Wilson and Jim Jordan over regeneration pits two menwhom I respect and from whom I have…
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Christ’s Lordship Over the Nations: Why Christian Nationalism is Inseparable from the Gospel
Christian Nationalism is not an historical oddity. It’s been the historical norm for most of church history for most of the church. A nation that thinks it can be areligious, that thinks it can divorce religion from culture and politics, is the historical oddity. Secularism is the historical oddity. An atheistic public square has never…
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