Throughout the Old Testament, the people of God are repeatedly warned about the making of idols and images which are false. This finds its most explicit articulation in the first two commandments of the Ten Commandments given on Mount Sinai (Exod. 20:4–5). Yet a few weeks later in the story, the people of Israel are [...]

Evangelicalism may be the most studied and least understood of the major modern religious movements in the West. Its size and apparent influence over American religious sensibilities have positioned it to be well researched in the last 40 years. It elicits such wide-ranging confusion because of the sheer diversity [...]

In The Case for Christian Nationalism, widely considered the strongest argument for this position, Stephen Wolfe contends that the “classical Protestant position is that the civil magistrate can punish external religion—e.g., heretical teaching, false rites, blasphemy, and Sabbath-breaking—because such actions can [...]

This series began not with a proposal to change church practice, but with a question that emerged from conversation. In separate discussions with my own pastor and with my father-in-law, a retired minister, both appealed thoughtfully to church history and the Reformed confessions in support of a monthly [...]