Why Conservatives Lose (and What We Must Do about It)
It is easier to destroy than to build.
In the cultural battles of our day, conservatives always seem to lose. Some say progressives win because of their superior funding, organizational prowess, and cultural dominance. Others say conservatives lose because we are disorganized, factious, and lack an activist spirit. Perhaps they’re right on both counts. But that’s not why we lose. We lose because we... Continue Reading
Render unto Caesar Challenges Us All, Left and Right Alike
The church’s mission has always been the work of making disciples - it is called to seek only the ability to live in freedom to do so and, similarly, quietly, and peacefully.
We can draw the inference that a Christian in politics – just as we would say to a Christian butcher, baker or candlestick maker – is called to honour God in the position he has given them and seek to live faithfully as believers as they go about their work. But this is not the... Continue Reading
The Disco Church
This is where some churches have now stooped to.
So many leaders in our churches today are so spiritually dead and morally bankrupt that they actually believe that strobe lights, smoke machines and ‘party, party, party’ is what we must now rely on to get folks in and build up the church. Good grief. For some decades now I had a standard line... Continue Reading
A Parish Manifesto
A Parish Movement: Four Characteristics of the Future Church
The Evangelical church must address the plank in its own eye. And that plank is…that we are failing to be the body of God in the world. The church must be re-embodied in neighborhoods so that it may once again enact the love of God through the love of neighbor. The church must transform lives... Continue Reading
Why The “He Gets Us” Super Bowl Commercial Fumbled
The problem is: God actually does “get us,” just not in the manner that the He Gets Us campaign advertises.
In the end, Christ was not crucified because He washed the feet of the marginalized and disenfranchised. He was not crucified because He said, “He Gets Us.” He was crucified because He preached a message that every single man, woman, and child must repent and believe, or they shall perish in Hell forever. That is... Continue Reading
One Bread, One Body? A Pastoral Reflection on Divisions in the Local Church
Though our churches are disrupted by division over the very things that should give us unity, it is our call and duty to continue to pursue purity and peace.
The view of paedocommunion advocates, however, is that the benefit of the sacrament can be conveyed without any active subjective reception by the recipient. In other words, the receiver can be “worthy” (as a baptized child of the covenant) and yet be “ignorant” of the sacrament’s meaning. Our elders reasoned that this different theology of... Continue Reading
Reject Doomerism, Embrace Christ
Christianity Supplies What the Dissident Right Is Looking For
Christian hope isn’t some fake, sunny optimism that’s divorced from a clear-eyed view of reality. Christians can still see the manifold political and cultural problems around them and work to do something about them. Instead, it’s a recognition that Christ will triumph—and he will do so through every means at His disposal. Why is... Continue Reading
The Economy of University Prestige
Money and Prestige
Prestige relates to money in that prestigious schools attract more grants and donations, because of their excellent students and also the eagerness of wealthy donors to have their children admitted. As a result, these institutions can spend money on fine arts programs, more faculty, better student services, and better facilities. Low-prestige universities often have to... Continue Reading
Greg Abbott, Alistair Begg, and the Law of Fashion
The Sovereign Power of Public Opinion
It is bad enough when anyone gives in to the sinister pressures of culture, but it is significantly worse when people in positions of prominence (like Begg) do so. It makes it all the harder for non-prominent Christians to stand firm, because strident advocates of immorality and unbelief will point to such capitulations as evidence that the... Continue Reading
A Slow Poison
Euthanasia in Holland and Belgium shows that “free choice” ends up devouring itself.
Once allowances have been made for terminally ill children, the question will inevitably be asked, “What about physically suffering children who aren’t terminally ill?”…This is how the culture of death works its slow poison. This is how voices of death are elevated as kind and compassionate, while voices of life are drowned out as inhumane,... Continue Reading
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