Introduction: When the thick fog of a judicial stupor has descended upon a people, there is really no way to write a sprightly article that will successfully explain to everyone how we might ...
SCOTUS and Throckmorton, Two Hot Takes, Sorry About That, I Know It’s Early
SCOTUS: Yesterday somebody leaked a draft opinion written by Justice Alito, in which we were given a strong indication that Roe v. Wade was going to be struck down. In response to this, I tweeted the following. If Roe has been struck down, then glory to God. But sit tight—the unprecedented leak means that we …
Truth Veneer in a White Oak Pattern
Introduction: Evangelical Christians are nice, and so when they lie it is in the interests of keeping things nice. They therefore have a hard time comprehending those unsavory characters who ...
The Naughty Boy of Evangelicalism
Introduction: One of the things I learned from the late Gary North was the three-fold division regarding different kinds of religion. There were, according to his taxonomy, these three: power religion, escape religion, and dominion religion. This grid can be applied to all religions, which means it can also be applied to the evangelical subsets …
Ghastly Simplicity
Introduction: Some things cannot be said without presupposing other things. All words require a speaker. All laws require a legislature. All design presupposes a designer. All morality assumes a standard. ...
The Authority of True Revival
Introduction: A.W. Tozer once said that if revival means more of what we have going on now, then we most certainly do not need revival. But we do in fact need revival, and I want to write ...
Aaron Renn and the Negative World
Introduction: In a recent article at First Things, in a piece entitled The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism, Aaron Renn does an admirable job hunting for the black box that will explain for us what happened ...
Bad Ideas and Balrogs
Introduction So I have been going on for some years now, or maybe a decade or two, about the prospect of a mere Christendom. A few years ago it all seemed pretty radical, but as time wears on, and as our mainstream corridors of power seem incapable of producing anything other than Bad Ideas and …
The Sides of the North Are Slippery
Introduction: Whenever smart people deny certain key attributes of God, like His sovereignty, this is not because they dislike that attribute. No, actually, they often like that attribute very ...
The Incoherence of Our Antichrists
Introduction: I begin with the foundational axiom that Christ rose from the dead, and that He was who He claimed to be. Everything else follows. Christ is therefore Lord. He, the incarnate ...