Why I Do Not Use the Word Ethnicity
The four common marks of a biblical nation are a common birth, a common border, a common language, and a common religion.
To pursue this objective the word nation was replaced by the word ethnicity. But it won’t work! It may have some success in Christian families, in the church were members of various nations all change their allegiance to Christ, and it may have some success within a common geographical boundary where the Ten Commandments of... Continue Reading
The Christian Nationalist Panic
Though I have held out hope that the “Christian nationalism” discourse would start to die down as its shortcomings became evident, I presently see no signs of such relief.
Christianity should not only influence what we support but also how we engage in the political sphere, namely, in a spirit of humility, charity, and good-faith deliberation. Christians should reject Christian nationalism, but not allow the moral panic surrounding it to shame them out of fully engaging in the public square, and doing so as... Continue Reading
London’s Suffering; London’s Sin
St. Paul's was "as much a den of thieves as a house of prayer." On a daily basis St. Paul's welcomed "respectable citizens such as merchants, lawyers and their clients, but a various and colorful collection of crooks, con-men, and others."
The Puritan Thomas Brooks would preach about the Great London Fire and the collapse of St. Paul’s, calling his hearers to faith in Christ. He would write, “London’s sufferings should warn others to take heed of London’s sins. London’s conflagration should warn others to take head of London’s abominations. It should warn others to stand... Continue Reading
Churchill and the Crusades
Jesus Christ will defeat His enemies in history, and every knee will bow before Him as Lord and King.
What makes me sad is that over the centuries hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions, of brave men died successfully protecting the West against the invasion of Muslims. Yet, in the last thirty years or so, our governments have essentially surrendered to Islam and turned places like London, Malmo (Sweden), the Twin Cities, the Paris... Continue Reading
The Bell Tolls for DEI
Major companies are—finally—pushing back against progressive pressure tactics.
Target, with its mascot puppy’s tail between its legs, officially “scaled back” its pride displays this June, limiting its best and brightest rainbow gear to just a few stores in “strategic” locations. Bud Light is a cautionary tale sure to be taught as a case study in marketing degree programs for years to come. Home... Continue Reading
How Religion Could Break Up Democrats’ Trusty Voting Blocs
David French’s friends on the left could, by their border lawlessness, facilitate his worst nightmare, MAGA success at the polls.
I’m not saying that if you love God, you have to vote Republican. I am saying that God’s Ten Commandments should inform our votings for and our votings against. And too bad for “progressives” if they continue to forget and scorn the Lord’s bedrock guidance. As the old saying goes, the Word of God is... Continue Reading
Some Sense and Sanity on Slavery
Clear thinking on this troubling reality.
“You, dear reader, are no more responsible for slavery than German millennials are for the Holocaust. Understand how it works? To suggest, as some overpaid politicians now do, that Western people today are somehow tainted by the enslavement of Africans by some of their ancestors, is an idea so extraordinarily backward that even the Old... Continue Reading
Abortion and America’s Final Christian Generation
What U.S. pro-lifers can learn from their European counterparts.
Overturning Roe v. Wade was a monumental achievement, one legions of pro-life activists spent half a century marching and praying for. It would not have happened had Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in 2016. Pro-lifers should be grateful for what Trump did for us, but also accept that the post-Roe era and the post-Christian era now combine to... Continue Reading
Wars and Rumors of Wars
Christ reminds us to not be alarmed, but to stay steadfast in Him.
Despite how common war is, we still experience it as abnormal. Sure, there is more than a bit of normalization that can occur after long periods of unrest and conflict, but the fact that we recoil at violence, resist war as much as we do, and strive for peace says something else as well. The... Continue Reading
A Change of Age
America and the West stand at a civilizational inflection point.
If we are seeking to equip our children in kingdom service, then our children will need to be adequately equipped for the kinds of battles that they are going to be facing. We owe it to our children to take these matters seriously. We may be dead before the full weight of these shifts are felt... Continue Reading