Resources from 2026
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 [...]
Eighteenth-Century Virginia Presbyterians on Christian Nationalism: A Threat to Souls, the Church, and the Body Politic
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 [...]
When Peter stood up at Pentecost, his audience was entirely Jewish. What did they hear when he declared that "the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself" (Acts 2:39)? What they heard would have immediately governed their covenant practice [...]
In recent years, there has been a fair amount of criticism of our cultural institutions. Whether they be political, academic, or ecclesiastical, anyone comfortably in a place of leadership in any institution is in the crosshairs of this criticism. Things have only gotten worse on their watch, after all. [...]
The church today finds itself amidst a revived trend of advocating for hearing God speaking to his people apart from his word. While there are new figures in this movement, the content of their message is hardly original. One can think of late medieval mysticism’s emphasis on a mystical encounter with God [...]
In an institution like the military, where soldiers must die, platitudes must die as well. Horace’s famous words, “Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori” (How sweet and fitting it is to die for one’s country), grind to a halt before real suffering [...]
What does an elder who is leaving a local evangelical church because—in part—he felt this church wasn’t taking social justice issues seriously have in common with another Christian who is forsaking Classical Theism for Open Theism? Further, what unites these with a third Christian whose journey [...]
No Room for Post-Millennialist Optimism: Considering the Saints and the City of Chaos in Isaiah 24–27
Christians today join the saints before them in searching the Bible to understand what exactly God promises us about the Last Days. No shortage of speculation exists, and it would be hard to overstate the impact eschatology has had on Christian life as believers navigate the spaces of politics and culture. [...]
I have had the pleasure of corresponding with David Kirwa Tarus while writing my children’s book on Byang Kato (an important African theologian). I have a high estimation of Tarus’s work in his African context, and I am a firm believer in the importance of learning from the global church because we can [...]
One cannot exaggerate just how critical the sequence of events recorded in Chapters 11, 12, and 13 of Exodus is in the history of Israel, the church, and the world. What God does, says, and reveals to his servant Moses and his covenant people still resonate with God’s people today as the Lord [...]
Everyone is moving to Florida. Everywhere I look there are new roads, new subdivisions, new buildings piercing the sky. New everything. Several years ago, my oldest son and I sat and marveled as we watched construction workers scaling up and down a building using several stories of scaffolding [...]
Even for those who aren’t basketball fans, this year’s book publishing industry has ensured a little March Madness for us all. On March 3, David C. Cook released a book by speaker, teacher, podcast host and New York Times bestselling author Preston Sprinkle (PhD, University of Aberdeen) titled, From Genesis to Junia [...]
Richard Dawkins displays little knowledge of Christian theology. However, he is spot-on when he summarizes, “Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.” It’s interesting that the pioneers of early modern science were orthodox Christians who were especially allergic to occult forces within [...]
