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“The Uvalde Tragedy and Gun Control Culture,” by Brian G. Mattson
Brian G. Mattson is CCL’s Senior Scholar of Public Theology. You might not know he is also a Second Amendment champion and firearms aficionado. In light of the Texas tragedy last week, I posed to him three questions about guns and gun control. You can subscribe to Dr. Mattson’s e-newsletter The Square Inch here. 1. 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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Roe Was Always About Revolutionary Sex
“Leftists lust to kill … because they lust to lust.” Read the article here . Continue reading
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Political Pulpits
“Every church and every pulpit is political. The only question is: Whose politics?” Read here. Continue reading
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Liberalism’s Funeral
“True liberalism holds much more in common with modern conservatism than either does with 21st century progressivism.” Read it here. Continue reading
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Easter Anthropology
“Ancient pagan views of man infested the church and have led to Christian withdrawal from God’s good world. Easter radically overturns this error.” Read the rest here. Continue reading
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Collectivist Man: Europeanizing the United States
PEOPLE MAKE CULTURES, but cultures make people. In The Character of Nations, Angelo Codevilla shows that over time, the distinctives of a political regime create a particular kind of individual unique to that political arrangement. He offered as contrasting examples the pre-1980’s United States and the Sovet Union of the same period. The character of Continue reading
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Terraforming Reality
“Christians welded to a total biblical world-and-life view must resist and oppose at all costs both cosmic insurrection and cosmic withdrawal.” Read the post here. Continue reading
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Recovering Regal Soteriology: Christ’s Kingship in Salvation and All of Life
Deeply entrenched ideas die hard, and this includes bad ideas, even (perhaps especially) bad ideas in Christian history. Examples abound, but one of the most prominent is the gradual shift from the cosmic soteriology (Jesus died and rose to redeem all creation) of the Bible to the individualized soteriology (Jesus died to save sinners) of Continue reading
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Contra Contrarians
We must not refuse to stand with majorities when they are right, any more than we may stand with majorities when they are wrong, simply because they are majorities. Read the rest here. Continue reading
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An Interview with Jeffery J. Ventrella on SCOTUS, Roe, the Current State of Law Schools, and ADF Victories
Jeffery J. Ventrella, J.D., Ph.D. is Senior Counsel and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs & Training for the Alliance Defending Freedom and CCL’s Distinguished Fellow of Law and Culture. Since the philosophical complexion of the Court has changed since the confirmation of the three Trump appointees, is the Court likely to take up cases Continue reading
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David L. Bahnsen on the Economics of War
I asked David to prognosticate the likely effects of the Russia-Ukraine war, and particularly the Western sanctions, on Russia, Ukraine, and the United States. His response is below. David is CCL’s Senior Fellow of Economics and Finance; Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, a wealth management firm based in Newport Beach, Continue reading
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Ten Books Most Formative in My Thinking
Books, like people, shape and reshape our lives. Here are the ones that shaped and reshaped mine. Read it here. Continue reading
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The Kingdom of God Is Not a Personal Salvation Cult
Stephen C. Perks’ latest iconoclastic essay bluntly dismisses Protestantism as a failure and offers a renaissance of the apostolic kingdom of God as the only viable replacement. Read the article here. Continue reading
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David L. Bahnsen on Inflation, Supply-Chain Shortages, and the Fed
David L. Bahnsen is Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, overseeing the management of over $3.5 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 Continue reading
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Christian Youth Should Be the Best Christians
One of the most pernicious myths of the church is that children must grow up before they can be zealots for Jesus Christ. The most productive Christians in history were following the Lord before they can remember. Listen here. Continue reading
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False Antinomy: Jesus’ Kingdom Gospel Versus Paul’s Salvation Gospel
Jesus’ victorious Satan-crushing gospel = Paul’s cross-and-resurrection salvation gospel. Read the post here. Continue reading
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Recovering Regal Soteriology
To lure sinners with the delights of eternal life while obscuring the demands of Christ’s Lordship over them is a supreme evangelistic cruelty. Read the post here. Continue reading
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The Kingdom Point of View
“No sacrifice is too great for the Kingdom to invade lives, families, and churches, as well as business, education, politics, science, entertainment, music, and economics.” Read the rest here. Continue reading
P. Andrew Sandlin 