Category Archives: Christianity

God’s Meticulous Providence: the Mysterious Case of Rachel Held Evans

By Colby Malsbury

Who is Rachel Held Evans?

Woke ‘Christian’ females of a strongly antinomian bent: please don’t jump down my throat at the question. I wasn’t being facetious. I honestly had never heard of her before reading the news of her death, aged 37, this week. It might shock some of you fair maidens to know that I can’t name a single song from Ariana Grande, either. Some of us don’t live our lives saturated in the modern.

Well, whoever she was, I can’t say the tribute thread set up in her honor on Facebook appears too promising. All kinds of female emotional vomit about how profound and meaningful HER words were, how courageous SHE was, how SHE brought so much meaning into THEIR lives and how SHE made THEM better people, blah blah blah. If God is mentioned at all, it’s with the veiled threat that He had better receive her joyously, fantastic person that she was. I dunno – remind me again why women ought not to preach? read more

Many Protestants Are Enthused About the Burning of Notre Dame. I Am Not One of Them.

By Colby Malsbury

Just as we were getting ready to pop the champagne on April 15^th to ring in the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination, our ardor was dampened by the tragic news coming from Paris that the ancient landmark Notre Dame was ablaze, with its wooden medieval latticework and trademark spire completely gone at a minimum, along with who knows what else in the way of decor within. Perhaps a sadly apt metaphor as, of course, April 15^th was also Tax Day in the US.

The initial story being put forth is, unsurprisingly, that the fire was entirely accidental. Sure, why not? I was born yesterday. The incongruities regarding this line of reasoning began piling up almost immediately. The gamut ranged from an immediate moanfest from the Jewish Daily Forward lamenting all the treasure the Tribe lost in this holocaust to the amazingly ‘coincidental’ flurry of other iconic buildings that also mysteriously caught fire the last few days – from Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque to Brazil’s premier natural history museum to an attempted arson on St. Patrick’s Cathedral . It seems clear that this event was a major acceleration of the current meta-narrative regarding church desecration (and equally simulated ‘Christian’ reactions to same) in order to foment the chaos required for a phoenix of pagan internationalism to arise from the ashes. Indeed, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there is indeed a concerted push on now to transform Notre Dame into a modern-day French Revolution-era Temple of Reason… of which the Torch of Liberty was its most defining characteristic. Aren’t Cryptocratic riddles wonderful? read more

Two Penitential Psalms For Good Friday

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By Davis Carlton

For a long time I have deeply appreciated the significance of what is traditionally known as Holy Week, which spans from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. It always amazed me how quickly the crowds gathered in Jerusalem turned from proclaiming Jesus as the anointed Messiah come to save them to calling for his Crucifixion within less than one week. Lately I’ve been struggling to overcome a melancholy sense that I’m witnessing the final stages of the collapse of Western Civilization. The fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this Monday only reinforced these feelings of helplessness in the face of overwhelming opposition. I’ve known for a long time that true Christian values have long since departed from America and other countries of the West. The magnificent churches and other works of art produced by white Christians have only served to testify of what was once held dear by our ancestors. Now even these reminders seem to be vanishing amidst the dual onslaught of secularism and false religions. It’s all quite depressing to ruminate upon. read more

A Pictorial Manifestation of The Death of The Christian West

By Davis Carlton

Traditional orthodox Christianity is a mostly dead faith. It absolutely pains me to admit as much, but there can be no doubt Christianity is on the steep decline as we witness mass apostasy that has rendered us worthy of divine judgment. This judgment is apparent in a number of ways: the mass exodus of people from any form of organized Christianity, the abandonment of traditional Christian doctrines and morals by professed Christian clergy, the banishment of Christian symbols from public life and the rise of anti-Christian symbols like rainbow flags and satanic sculptures in places of prominence. There is also the sad spectacle of the demolition of beautiful architecture, especially historic and beautiful churches. read more

God Deliver Us From the Scourge of Transcalvinism

By Colby Malsbury

Hal Lindsey once informed us there’s a new world coming. The band Queen let us know in no uncertain terms that they wanted it all, and they wanted it now. The church of today, never much concerned about doctrinal incongruities when an opportunity to appear hip and woke presented itself, has amalgamated these two noble aspirations and made the resulting cake all their own.

For years now, we kinists have grouped all Reformed advocates of such a church malignant under the doctrine of ‘alienism’. Yet lately we have had cause to revisit our thoughts on this matter. Useful as it is in highlighting our adversaries’ adulation of the Other – not to mention its suggestion of pre-WWII Freudian psychobabble which our adversaries are also unknowingly in thrall to – the term remains an arcane one, and one that does not deliver the desired gut-punch that a battle for hearts and minds as we are engaged in requires. Ergo, allow me to introduce an alternate term of approbation: Transcalvinism. read more

Want to End Abortion? Easy: Revoke Women’s & Minority Voting Privileges

By Ehud Would

So we’ve all heard the news. Cuomo signed a bill sanctioning the murder of children at birth in the state of New York. And immediately, as if coordinated aforehand, Kathy Tran led the Virginia democrats in sponsorship of a like bill. For the foreseeable future, the trajectory seems set. The unthinkable has, in short order, gone from accepted to celebrated. And they are literally celebrating. More, as ritual celebration, it is patently religious in nature; in essence, a public Black Mass. read more

A Sermon on Christian Unity: The Proto-Kinism of PCA Founder John E. Richards

(The founding of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) was the work of many men, but in any list of those most essential to its founding, along with names like Kenneth Keyes, Paul Settle, Morton Smith, and Jack Williamson, the name of Dr. John Edwards Richards would most certainly be found in a prominent position. Richards helped organize and lead Presbyterian Churchmen United, one of the four bodies that brought the PCA into being. In 1969, Richards and an associate led this group in publishing a Declaration of Commitment to the Word of God in 30 major newspapers, which was signed by over 500 ministers. In 1972, he retired from the pastorate to serve as the administrator for the Steering Committee for a Continuing Presbyterian Church, and spent much of his time traveling to churches to present the issues and debate liberal opponents. He was elected to prepare the docket for the first ever General Assembly, and literally wrote the book on the founding of the PCA, The Historical Birth of the Presbyterian Church in America, from which the following is extracted. At the main campus of Reformed Theological Seminary, the professorial chair for systematic and historical theology is named in his honor (ironically, a position held today by social justice warrior Ligon Duncan). It is difficult to overstate Richards’ contribution to the founding of the PCA. read more

God’s Law is the Rule of Life in All Spheres of Authority

The following was prompted by a discussion with a friend regarding the Westminster Confession of Faith’s treatment of the judicial/civil division of the Law, as well as the 1788 American revisions to WCF 23:3. Despite the digression at the end to focus on these specific issues, I hope it might serve as a general introduction to the continuing and general applicability of God’s Law in the modern world. ~ Mickey Henry

In order for a worldview to be a worldview, it must possess some conception of metaphysics (nature of reality: origins, mind/matter, time, causation, etc.), teleology (purpose/ultimate ends), and epistemology (how we know what we know), as well as a system of ethics; that is, a code of right behavior. The source of a worldview’s code of right behavior, its ethics/morals/law, is the ultimate authority of that worldview (i.e., its “god”). For example, if man or one of man’s institutions determines right behavior, then man is the ultimate authority of that worldview. Within any worldview, there are multiple spheres of authority: individual, family, church, civil government, association, business, etc. The nature of sphere authority, its source, order of precedence, degree of autonomy, and so forth, may be different from one worldview to the next, but these basic categories are inescapable for man (attempts by communists and other egalitarian revolutionaries to annihilate any one of these spheres has always ultimately resulted in failure). In a non-syncretic worldview, that is, one that is self-consistent, homogeneous, and stable, all authority spheres operate within the same ethical framework. While there is variability between authority spheres in emphasis as well as permissible penal sanctions, in a self-consistent worldview there is one law system for all. Since all ethical/legal systems, by nature, distinguish between should and should not, neutrality is a metaphysical impossibility. read more

PCA Prepares to Anathematize the Sin of Noticing at 44th GA

The many social justice warriors in leadership positions with the Presbyterian Church in America are working furiously to prepare new and exciting overtures for the 44th General Assembly, upcoming in June. The PCA is hopeful that these new resolutions will atone for the many sins of the old Southern Presbyterians while helping the burgeoning denomination to win social acceptance and the approval of popularly recognized authority figures. Top on the list of new proposals: a formal anathematization of the sin of noticing. The proposal’s co-author, Dr. Sean Lucas, explained, “While the contemptible baseness of noticing is evident to any Christian with a social conscience, we in the PCA want to be at the forefront of formally denouncing this great evil. Too long, we in the faith community have tolerated noticing when we should have been the first to condemn it. As Dr. Tim Keller taught us in Deconstructing Defeater Beliefs, an integral part of Gospel Neighboring is increasing Gospel Attractiveness by connecting the Gospel with baseline cultural narratives, and thereby diminishing Gospel Exclusiveness. We want to make our cities great places for everyone. Nothing I can think of would more broadly increase the appeal of the Gospel to our postmodern society than condemning the sin of noticing.” read more