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April 2021

April 24, 2021
I'm working on a couple of writing projects at the moment. One (the longer one)...

March 2021

March 17, 2021
Ever since vaccination was deemed the path to salvation (i.e., return to "normalcy") amidst the...
March 16, 2021
Evangelicals love to talk about "common grace." Some recent examples from some Big Eva big...
March 04, 2021
I've been tweeting some snarky things about the cult of "expertise" in academia, the proclivity...

February 2021

February 28, 2021
I recently watched Fight of Faith, a documentary on J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937) produced by...

January 2021

January 28, 2021
Kenneth Craycraft's analysis over at First Things of the likely-to-be-passed Equality Act paints a grim...

December 2020

December 14, 2020
  Last week, over at the Catholic legal theory blog, Mirror of Justice (which posts...
December 11, 2020
The war in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) over Critical Race Theory (CRT) rages on....
December 11, 2020
I don't get worked up about much. I think the pandemic is serious—the latest numbers...

November 2020

November 14, 2020
Baseless stereotypes surround Puritanism perhaps like no other group of people or social movement. Most...
November 09, 2020
The way things are going, we may be in for another Bush v. Gore-esque 38-day...
November 05, 2020
Since election day(s) technically isn't over, I'm going to keep posting these New England (17th...
November 03, 2020
The sermon below, ominously entitled, "A Day of Darkness," was preached by Samuel Checkley (1695-1769)...
November 02, 2020
"Today, Monday October 26, 2020, will go down as one of the darkest days in...
November 01, 2020
I've been reading Matthew Henry's (1662-1714) commentary on Ecclesiastes to compliment the sermon series on...

October 2020

October 29, 2020
I am not a Donald Trump acolyte. I am ambivalent. I have the evidently antiquated...
October 29, 2020
It is nearly impossible, or at least improper, to discuss New England life and theology...
October 26, 2020
I have lately been posting notes from New England election sermons (from the 17th and...
October 23, 2020
This is the second installment in my series of notes from 17th and 18th century...
October 23, 2020
It's that time again, when well-know, platformed pastors provide their unsolicited, generally unhelpful, advice on...
October 21, 2020
There has been much talk of late about the adiaphora ("things indifferent") in the context...
October 17, 2020
Three days ago, Bari Weiss published a simply phenomenal article at Tablet, where she is...
October 09, 2020
  The aim of argument is differing in order to agree; the failure of argument...
October 07, 2020
Jonathan Leeman was recently on the Defend and Confirm podcast. The guys (Sean DeMars and...
October 03, 2020
  This is the beginning of a new series here at TCC. On the weekends...

September 2020

September 29, 2020
In an article last week at The Federalist, Lewis Andrews argued that, as the headline...
September 18, 2020
Over the past several decades, Reformed theology has enjoyed what has been called, in the...
September 05, 2020
Last week I took some live notes during the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation webinar, which...

August 2020

August 30, 2020
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how the logic of critical ideologies (Postcolonial...
August 26, 2020
Kimball: Scruton's highest vocation was a teacher and mentor. He understood as Socrates understood, how...
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