by Kevin Bauder | Oct 26, 2016 | America, Christianity, Politics
Yup. By Ross Douthat. America needs a religious right. Maybe not the religious right it has; certainly not the religious right of Carson and Falwell Jr. But the Trump era has revealed what you get when you leach the Christianity out of conservatism: A right-of-center...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 26, 2016 | Church History, Devotion, Suffering
You’ve heard about it. Thanks to Adrian Warnock, you can now read about it. How many pastors could say what Spurgeon said? Lower they cannot sink who are already in the nethermost depths. Misery itself is the guardian of the miserable. All things combined to...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 25, 2016 | Catholicism, Christianity, Church History, Reformation
Ryan Reeves teaches at Gordon-Conwell. I love his little videos on church history. Here he answers the question, “Did Luther Intend the Reformation?”
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 25, 2016 | Soteriology, Theology
Justin Taylor offers a discussion of the active and passive obedience of Christ. It’s worth a read. Though some critics of Reformed theology critique the distinction as extrabiblical, I think the New Testament clearly teaches both aspects: the lifelong passive...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 25, 2016 | America
A recent poll by PRRI shows that American evangelicals have changed dramatically in their view of whether immorality affects an individual’s ability to serve in public office. Here’s a synopsis: No group has shifted their position more dramatically than...
