I follow the example of Scripture. The Fourth of July ought to be a Holy Day. Not just a holiday; a Holy Day. I don’t say this in observance of some civic religion that eventually boils down to statism; I
They are good are speaking by implication instead of honesty. The PCA has put out its ‘interim report’ on Christian Nationalism. Now, being both CN-adjacent and Reformed, as well as currently attending a PCA church, I have an interest in
Don’t tell the government. “It is a principle of common sense,” Spencer Roane said (pg. 145, Irreconcilable Founders), “as well as common law, that a deputy cannot make a deputy. The power of changing the government was, therefore, not bested
Contra Ed ‘They Bought My Seat’ Gallrein “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Thus
In practice, yes. Is revival prerequisite to a Christian government? The question is a significant divide in the world of Christian Nationalism. Stephen Wolfe argues that it isn’t, that revival is “not the only antecedent condition” to Christian laws, though
The basic theory of the Epstein file and similar operations (whether you think they’re intelligence or not) seems at first glance to be blackmail. Get the big names and the big money to do really heinous deeds (though, note, they’ve
State, Church, Family…? The civil government usually claims, now and across human history, to be the distinguishing and unitary factor of each society. On occasion the religious institution, the ‘church,’ makes a grab for the same, but it does so
Reviewing Wolfe’s evidence. Is theonomy a novel doctrine in church history? According to Stephen Wolfe, it is novel at least to Reformed theology. To a very small extent, he succeeds. But he succeeds much less than he purports, going by
Is Scripture sufficient? In a recent article (probably the most recent one, but I’ve jumbled the order before), I made some acerbic remarks on Stephen Wolfe’s assertions in Biblical sufficiency in A Study Report on Reformed Christian Politics (though in fairness he’s
Killing children is naturally a topic people have strong feelings about. At large in our culture, this debate plays out between two diametric opposites. On the one side, those who advocate killing children in order to preserve a more pleasurable