The text of a talk delivered at the CCL East Coast Symposium on November 23, 2013 in Shepherdstown, West Virginia Perhaps you've seen the movie titled Wag the Dog, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert DeNiro and Willie Nelson. It's about a president who invents a crisis in the Balkans in order to divert attention from [...]
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Jesus, Not Politics, Saves
In reading the current fracas over at American Vision (and I want to mention here that I have the highest personal regard for Gary DeMar), I was reminded again of a travesty I observed frequently while a part of the Theonomy movement (with which I no longer identify): the apparent subordination of Christianity to politics, [...]
Boys, This Ain’t Scholarship
I’m not going to interact with the substance of Robert Godfrey’s and Mike Horton’s breezy responses to John Frame’s The Escondido Theology (just as they didn’t interact with the substance of Frame’s book), but I can’t pass up a “teaching moment” (as we say these days) to those onlookers who might want to learn a [...]
Crusading Christianity
Passion for Catholicity In recent years I've tried to make a chief feature of my ministry catholicity, specifically, orthodox Christians working together for wholesale reformation. Culture-reclaiming Christians committed to Biblical authority, the apostolic Gospel, and historic orthodoxy should not allow their secondary differences to divide them. The stakes are too high; our culture is too [...]
