Tag: history
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The Presbyterian Rebellion
Some people call it the American Revolution. Others call it the War for Independence. I call it by it’s proper name: The Presbyterian Rebellion. The problem with the label “American Revolution” is that it all too easily confuses what happened in America in 1776 with what happened in France in 1789. The French Revolution proceeded…
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June 2026 — Notes and X Posts: America at 250/America’s Christian Founding, Marriage and Polarity, Propositional Nationhood, Immigration, Fatherhood, Hitler and Nazism, Slavery, the South and Secession, Enoch Powell, Preaching, Columbus, 2 Samuel 8, Mark 11, Assurance, French Revolution, Civil Rights
— “Not a coincidence that the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship was divided along gender lines more than political ones. This is why we should not have women on the Supreme Court. Before everyone gets offended or takes this as an insult to women, consider the fact that it is natural for a woman…
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First Prayer — Continental Congress
Taken from https://plymrock.org/first-prayer-of-the-continental-congress-1774/ In history we find some of the best writings to be apologetics or in defense of rights. In 1774 the Continental Congress published its Declaration and Resolves stating in part: “…By the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights……
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Which Way, Western Man: Blaming the Jews or Taking Responsibility?
Dennis Prager, himself a Jew, points out that virtually all -isms, except Nazism, were founded or led disproportionately by Jews: Marxism, humanism, feminism, environmentalism, LGBTQism, etc. I do not deny Jewish involvement in all of these movements and in some cases that involvement was disproportionate to the Jewish population as a whole. But I also…
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Anti-Whiteness and White Identity Politics
Anti-whiteness is a real problem. Some of it comes from self-loathing progressive whites. Some of it comes from people of other ethnicities and races who are – to use the old-fashioned term – racists against whites. A lot of anti-whiteness is actually a proxy war against historic Western/Christian civilization. But many attempts to push back…
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Liberalism vs Your Belly Button
The best argument against modern liberalism? Your belly button. Why? You belly button is a reminder that you began life connected to others. You are not a sovereign, autonomous, detached individual. Your very existence came in and through community. To be is to be related. You are not a free floating atom. You are a…
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Medieval Myths
These notes are based on my sermon from November 6, 2005. Audio available here: It is useful and fitting to reflect on the saints who have gone before us. This reflection leads us especially to the saints of the Middle Ages and to the many myths that surround the medieval church. While the medieval era…
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Christian Politics: Reformed Political Theology, Women’s Suffrage, Puritan Theonomy
“Accordingly, in every state sanctified to God capital punishment must be ordered for all who have dared to injure religion, either by introducing a false and impious doctrine about the Worship of God or by calling people away from the true worship of God; for all who blaspheme the name of God and His solemn…
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The Civil Rights Industry
No doubt that there were many racial sins committed in American society during the Jim Crow era. But whatever good things the civil rights movement may have accomplished in its day, it’s fundamental purpose was to make America communist. It has not quite succeeded, but it certainly hasn’t failed. As Jeremy Carl has said, the…
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Christian Imperialism
Given our action in Venezuela, perhaps it’s time for Christian nationalism to give way to Christian colonialism, or even Christian imperialism. There have been Christian colonizers and empires in history, just as there have been Christian nations. A good case can be made that when Christian nations colonized (and at least to some degree, Christianized)…
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