I am, as I’ve probably made sufficiently clear, a theonomist. I am also a Presbyterian, whatever my quarrels with certain parts of the tradition may be. I can offer only slightly-qualified endorsement to the 1788 Westminster Confession of Faith. But,
We cannot edit the law. Many of us have sympathy for the Biblical civil law’s list of crimes. We find murder, rape, theft, adultery, theft, and even blasphemy highly objectionable, and we can see how at least a little punishment
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
“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
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
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
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was far from a Christian. Yet The Second Coming expresses viciously and poignantly a point crucial for Christians to understand about the world we find ourselves in. Though hell-bound, Yeats was a poet of great skill.