The PCA recently released an ‘interim report’ to some furor. The topic? In all the PR, Christian Nationalism (but more on that soon). The report itself is thirty-five pages that aren’t worth your time; the writing would be unexceptional if
Understanding the Gospel of John Symbolism, allegory, and parallelism can often bleed into each other. They overlap in concept, enough to make distinguishing them necessary rather than trivial and automatic. The differentiations are the difference between almonds and cyanide: crucial
Are pagans the best rulers? The PCA’s getting-less-recent interim report on Christian Nationalism’s relationship with ethno-nationalism, commonly billed as a statement on Christian Nationalism, has takes the time to twice denounce the removal of political power from non-Christians for their
“War,” it has been asserted, “never changes.” The sentiment is old and worn, found in government report and video game and meme all around. Many of its iterations elaborate. “War never changes. It only becomes more bloody and brutal,” one US
Not just ignoring differences Presuppositional apologetics, on the face of the matter, don’t make sense. When I go up to an atheist or a pagan (who is, as regards God, an atheist) and tell him to repent because God calls
The anodyne, the worrying, and the flat-out confusing The PCA has had the kindness to tell us what we should think about Christian Nationalism, at least for now. Among their Affirmations and Denials (Point 3, page 8), they have even
I do not trust judges, as a category, nearly as far as I can throw them. Judges are, as a rule, biased, trained in secularism, steeped in governmental power, blind to or participant in abuse, deferential to the government, and
Licenses are a measure to control, not protect. In a number of professions, you need the government’s permission to operate. A lawyer, for instance, can only practice as a lawyer if he fulfills the state’s requirements, like a J.D. degree
Right, wrong, and silence. What They Got Right Affirmation/denial #1 of the PCA’s interim report on Christian Nationalism (pg 8) gets a fair few things right. The civil authority is indeed ordained by God; it indeed has a “legitimate role”
I have now read Dune. I first conceived the ambition more than a year ago, and at last I have done it. So, do I recommend it? Well, yes, but not without reserve. Dune is written with undoubted skill and