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J. D. Vance’s Grievance Economics: An Interview with David L. Bahnsen
David Bahnsen is Founder and CEO of the Bahnsen Group. He oversees the management of over $5.7 billion in client assets. Prior to launching The Bahnsen Group, he spent eight years as a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and six years as a Vice President at UBS. He is consistently named one of the top Continue reading
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The Old Religious Disestablishment and the New Religious Establishment
All nations should be Christian. But how? The full article is here. Continue reading
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Let’s Restore Liberalism
Globalist Marxisms and tribalist nationalisms, despite fierce, unbridgeable disagreements, both undermine the Protestant free society of the U. S. Founding. Read the article here. Continue reading
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“Ten Governing Economic Principles About Markets,” By David L. Bahnsen
Five Governing Principles when we think about state meddling in markets: First: The default position must be free men and free markets, with the state’s role limited to enforcing the rule of law. A complex and evolved economy has invited more and more intervention, yet the state’s severe limitations in knowledge and in incentive scream for a limited role in Continue reading
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The Old Bronze Age Mindset Meets the New “Christian Vitalism”
“Christian Vitalism” could easily become a new syncretism, the attempted fusion of biblical faith and pagan religion. Read the article here. Continue reading
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The Virtuous Liberty Society
Classical Liberalism versus Globalist Marxisms and Tribalist Nationalisms The free society our U. S. Founders secured by God’s blessing with their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” is under withering assault today on the Left and Right. Some critics believe the Founding basis (including its indisputably Protestant distinctive) has outlived its usefulness. Others argue the nation Continue reading
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God’s Children Aren’t for Sale
“𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 turns an unblinking and unfiltered camera into the abyss of the unregenerate human heart where even God’s common grace seems to grow faint.” Read the review here. Continue reading
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A Postmillennial Primer: Basics of Optimistic Eschatology
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Christianity Is Public
If Jesus isn’t Lord everywhere, he’ll eventually not be Lord anywhere. Read the article here. Continue reading
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𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚 Turns 100
“A century has not relaxed the battle-lines of a robust, orthodox, confrontational biblical Faith on the one hand and all accommodationist revisions on the other, whether in church or culture.” Read it here. Continue reading
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The Serpent’s Gnostic Hiss
“Gnosticism is an equal opportunity destroyer. Wherever this heresy goes in the church, it dilutes or destroys the Christian Faith. Wherever it goes in our society, it undermines Christian culture.” Read here. Continue reading
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A Victorious Pre-Parousia Eschatology
Christianity is at a low tide in the West, but the high tide will return in God’s good time. That irrepressible tide will eventually sweep away all opposition possible before the Second Advent. Read the article here. Continue reading
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Creedal Eschatology Is Biblical Eschatology
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Leftist “Equity” Versus Biblical Equality
Any idea of equality that demands uniform results is an attack on God’s law; on individual liberty; and, if carried to its “equitable” conclusion, on reality itself. Read the article here. Continue reading
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Utopia Unbound
Every human attempt to create heaven on earth ends by creating hell. The coming of the heavenly kingdom to earth is an answer to fervent prayer, not the reward for a utopian program. Read it here. Continue reading
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Prayer’s Erroneous Theological Debris
In learning (or relearning) how to pray, it’s essential to clear away the erroneous theological debris we often carry with us as it relates to prayer. Read the article here. Continue reading
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Closing the Book(s) on 2022
The delights of fear, the ills of illiberals, and the buttress of creation Read the article here. Continue reading
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Reactionaries Are Revolutionaries Too
If the new NeoCon reactionaries get what they want, it won’t be what they claim they’re restoring. It’ll be an amalgam of an idealized conservative past and an actual revolutionary present. Read it here. Continue reading
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The Creational Family
The family is a part of the creational OS. The blinding assaults against it in postmodern culture (socially constructed sexuality, homosexuality, gender reassignment surgery, and so on) are assaults on reality itself. Listen here. Continue reading
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David Bahnsen on the 2022 Election
The Republicans have lost the Senate, and will either lose or narrowly regain the House. How did this history-defying disappointment come about? Well, first of all, the Republicans will not lose the House. They are likely to end up with a majority of about 220-225 seats, meaning a net pick-up of roughly 7-10 seats. But Continue reading
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Pro-Family Abortion?
Carle Zimmerman has observed that the ancient Roman Empire supported abortion and infanticide precisely because it was so aggressively pro-family, just the opposite of the rationale for their support today. What he terms the trustee family placed life-and-death authority in the hands of the father or clan or kin, which could kill their preborn and Continue reading
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The Wave That Wasn’t
“There are no political solutions, certainly not nationalized or federalized solutions, only cultural solutions. The Christian stake in politics is to miniaturize today’s maximized politics.” Read the article here. Continue reading
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Biblical Law and Christian Culture: Two Errors
We support Christian culture so that culture will embrace biblical law, including its very limited application of civil law. Don’t reverse this order. Read the article here. Continue reading
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CCL’s 23rd Annual Symposium: The Family
Join us in San Francisco for an illuminating, inspiring, and equipping conversation. In our time of unrelenting assault on the family and marriage, this year’s symposium will provide spiritual and intellectual ammunition to combat the diabolical, contra-creational forces confronting us. This event will be especially suited for spouses, as well as high school and college Continue reading
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Individualism, The Right Kind
Not just a illiberal Leftism, but also illiberal conservatism, if successful, will lead to the destruction of the United States as we have known them. Read the article here. Continue reading
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Against “Post-Liberalism,” Left and Right
Memo to U. S. conservatives: 1. We should be standing boldly for Jesus Christ, the Bible, marriage, the family, preborn children, the elderly, two sexes and two sexes only, patriotic conservatism, and respect everywhere for God’s moral law. 2. We should be standing boldly for liberty — classical liberalism: religious liberty, political liberty, economic liberty; Continue reading
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The Dialectical God, the Static God, or the Covenantal God?
Three views of God. Only one is correct. Watch video here. Continue reading
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My 10 Favorite Modern Novels
The Straw Men, by Michael Marshall — They are brilliant and bloodthirsty elite nihilists who are convinced they’re the next stage in human evolution. They have lots of money. They live on huge, rural estates. They like to experiment. WARNING: don’t read alone at night. The Secret History, by Donna Tartt — Classical humanism has Continue reading
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The Pleroma of the Son
Introduction Sin unleashed nothingness into the world. The Edenic world was brim-filled and overflowing with the goodness, righteousness, and joy of God actuated by creation’s mediator, God’s only Son. The creation account speaks of “filling” the earth and its “abundance.” God-ness drenched everything (though, of course, not in a pantheistic sense). Sin introduced cosmic rebellion. Continue reading
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What I Do
It occurred to me that I often take for granted when I post on social media that everybody knows what I do. I’ve been leading the Center for Cultural Leadership for almost 23 years now, and I assume everybody knows that. Apparently, they don’t. So here’s a quick summary of what I do: I lead Continue reading
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Baptist and Paedobaptist Very Hot Takes
For some reason the temperature of the perennial arguments between Baptists and paedobaptists has spiked, though it seems to me most of the faulty hot takes lately have been over-microwaved by my fellow paedobaptists. Here’s a humble exhortation from somebody that’s been on both sides of this issue and studied it for 40 years: If Continue reading
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The Character of Christ’s Kingdom
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed he shall not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. (Is. 42:2, 3) A principal theme of the Old Testament prophets relating to Messiah’s glorious kingdom Continue reading
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Clinging to Our Torments
It is one of the great mysteries of the hold of sin that we cling so tenaciously to those vices that most grieve and torture us — resentment, unhappiness, jealousy, vengeance, anxiety, bitterness, covetousness, pessimism, and unbelief. Our fist-clenched grasp on these self-destructive sins is almost a form of masochism. We cherish them despite the Continue reading
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Marriage Is Not Christian
Reducing marriage to a Christian institution might seem pious, but it’s not God- or Bible-honoring. Read it here. Continue reading
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In Praise of Marrying Young
Not just being together, but changing together. Read it here. Continue reading
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The Bible Is Complementarian, But Don’t Monkey Around With the Trinity
A majority of complementarian evangelical scholars sympathetic to the eternal economic subordination of the Son (EES) returned to the orthodox position in 2016. (EES = though each member of the Trinity is equal in being [one nature or “ousia”], the Son is eternally subordinate to the Father in function. There are still a few pushback Continue reading
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Confessional Postmillennialism
“Eschatology isn’t just about last things. It’s also about first things. What you believe about eschatology will affect how you live your life.” Read here. Continue reading
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Resurrecting Liberalism
Modern conservatives know that they’re actually old-time liberals and should reclaim the term. Read the article here. Continue reading
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David Bahnsen: Everybody, Not Just Pro-Lifers, Should Be Celebrating Dobbs
Those celebrating the repeal of Roe v. Wade should not be limited to the pro-lifers who rightly see it as an avenue towards reduced abortions, but it should be pro-choicers like Ruth Bader Ginsburg who knew full well there was no Constitutional right to such embedded in the Constitution. It. Was. Bad. Law. I demand Continue reading
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Scriptural Repulsion of “Same-Sex Attraction”
Creating a church environment safe for the self-satisfied, unrepentant same-sex attracted ( = tempted) is really a gateway drug to the practice of homosexuality. Read the article here. Continue reading
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Utopia and Revolution: Politics, Economics, Sex, and the Church
The utopian revolutionaries are savaging every last residue of Christian culture, and the church’s double-decker Christianity has abetted the savagery. Read here. Continue reading
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Prayer, Covenant, and the Nations
The ascended Lord is presently ruler of the nations, trampling down his enemies by Spirit, gospel and law, and our prayer, evangelism, and life should aggressively reflect this cosmic reign of our Lord. Listen here. Continue reading
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The Alt-World
Satan offers man an alternative reality to God’s good created world, but God in Christ is de-privileging, deconstructing, and demolishing that world. Listen here. Continue reading
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Red-Letter Christianity Versus Jot-and-Tittle Christianity
Only jot-and-tittle Christianity can vanquish the evils in the modern church and world. Read the rest here. Continue reading
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Leftist Intellectuals
The self-appointed champions of the oppressed menace the world. Read it here. Continue reading
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The Eternal Trinity Isn’t a Pattern for Marriage
You don’t need to invoke — and may not invoke — the eternal Trinity to know that the wife must be subject to her own husband. The Bible teaches you that. The eternal (ontological) Trinity doesn’t. Read the post here. Continue reading
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Can You Help CCL by 11:59 p.m. New Year’s Eve?
Dear friends and supporters: CCL is entering its 24th year. It’s hard to believe. By God’s grace, we just keep growing. In a time of pious retreatism, we cultivate a full-orbed Christian culture. In a time of celebrity ministry, we highlight God’s glory and not man’s popularity. In a time of heterodoxy and revisionism, we Continue reading
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The Greatest Man I Ever Knew
I’m occasionally asked who my mentors were as a young man. I respond: “Five thousand books and one man.” The one man was my father. Read the tribute here. Continue reading
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What Is Christian Worldview?
A Christian worldview means that our thinking is always and everywhere governed by Christian presuppositions, to the extent this is possible in a fallen world. Read the article here. Continue reading
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Baptism and the Visibility Paradigm
Baptism is the single formal initiation into Christianity’s victorious visibility paradigm. If we care about kingdom victory, we must recover the robust kingdom idea of baptism. Read the article here. Continue reading
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