Abraham Kuyper and his successor Herman Bavinck are usually considered the “fathers of Neo-Calvinism.” I will spare you the details of what Neo-Calvinism is since more competent folks have already done so. But, I consider myself a Neo-Calvinist simply because I love the works of and adhere to the great majority of Kuyper and Bavinck’s [...]

Two hours ago, I was, for the first time, pacing the floors of “Crossroads Books and Music” located near the largest mall in South Dakota. The Crossroads website describes itself in the following terms:
“For over 30 years, Crossroads Books & Music has provided the finest in Christian products to the Sioux Empire. Our 18,000 sq [...]

It’s funny how the most timely and relevant words usually come from people who are dead. I’m thinking of Huxley’s prophetic Brave New World, Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism, as well as the essays of Reinhold Niebuhr, Herman Bavinck,  and a handful of others who lived across 1900 AD. It sometimes strikes us as odd that [...]

As more and more controversy revolves around the Manhattan Declaration, some thinkers are forging more concise means of expressing the real issues. The good folks (well, I guess only one folk) at Thoughts of Francis Turretin failed not when it came to the Bronx Declaration. RealApologetics.org is onboard. (Now, if anyone starts calling this document [...]

The idea that we are trapped in women’s bodies or women trapped in man’s bodies collapses the distinction between sex and gender with a Gnostic, even docetic, disregard for bodily reality (he only seems [dokeo] to be made)…
In refusing one’s biology, the creature refuses what is ultimately not merely a natural given but a gift [...]

RC Sproul has broken the silence here, declining to sign the Declaration. Sproul is the author of over 100 books, the founder of Ligonier Ministries, and the host of Renewing Your Mind Radio. Michael Horton (Ph.D Oxford) also did not sign, Professor of Apologetics at Westminster Seminary and host of The White Horse Inn. And [...]

After a few long shifts hauling grain (God is the God of abundant harvests!), I’m finally back at my workstation. I came across this during my morning blog reads (credit to Areopagus):

Campolo, McLaren, perhaps even figures like Ronald J. Sider and others come to mind in parts of this visual.