Resources from 2026
We currently inhabit a unique historical moment that the sociologist Philip Rieff presciently termed the "triumph of the therapeutic." The great secular project of the twentieth century made a specific promise: if we dismantled the external structures of religious law, we would finally be free from the crushing weight [...]
“From the Nile to the Euphrates” (Gen 15:18). The land God gave to his people included today’s Palestine, Jordan, parts of Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. “It would be fine if they took it all,” said U. S. Ambassador to Israel and Baptist minister, Mike Huckabee. [...]
Even though John Calvin has been dubbed the “theologian of the Holy Spirit,” his theological heirs, Reformed Presbyterians, are sometimes maligned as giving the Holy Spirit the short shrift. I remember visiting a friend’s charismatic church during college and being told that I “didn’t have much of the Spirit” because [...]
For many within the Reformed tradition, the question of weekly communion appears to be settled before it is even asked. Scripture does not issue an explicit command requiring the Lord’s Supper to be observed every week. Church history, though often suggestive, does not present a universal decree mandating such a practice. [...]
The year of 2026 is a very strange moment in our secular age. Thinking Christians are grappling with how to speak into a moment largely galvanized by polarization, AI slop, institutional distrust, and memes. If you’re curious about cultural apologetics, you’ve most likely encountered the work of Charles Taylor, especially [...]
Christian theology is a vast expanse in which a dizzying array of doctrines orbit a single Son that holds them in their courses. We ought not dismiss any of these doctrines as unimportant, but there are some that sit at the heart of the Christian faith, while others are more peripheral. At the center [...]
Suppose someone declares, “Christianity is not credible.” What do they mean and how should we respond to that claim? They probably mean that Christianity isn’t worthy of belief. They know there are lots of Christians, but their point is that there shouldn’t be because Christianity isn’t worthy of belief. [...]
One of the most compelling books in the Old Testament is that of Ruth, which follows its namesake’s journey from Moabite widow to covenantal member in the family of promise. Despite the myriad theological significances of this four-part narrative, the book proceeds scarcely mentioning the Lord at all [...]
In a recent church small group, in which I was the youngest participant by several decades, I witnessed a surprising display of emotion. Older women—saints in the church who have nurtured and fed me literally and spiritually—tearfully sharing painful memories from their middle school years. Here, in the winter seasons [...]
The New Testament does not present the Lord’s Supper as an occasional supplement to Christian worship, but as something bound up with the church’s gathered life. The Supper appears there not by way of explicit scheduling command—“observe this weekly”—but through a pattern [...]
When Seminaries Stop Believing in God: A Personal Witness to Theological Drift at Claremont School of Theology
Doctrine is not decorative. It is constitutive. The church does not merely possess a creedal faith; she is shaped by it, governed by it, and sustained through it. When orthodoxy is quietly displaced, institutions may continue to function administratively, yet they no longer recognize their purpose. They become [...]
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 [...]
