For nearly 16 years, conservative Christians have been confronted by the allegedly self-evident aphorism, “God is Not a Republican, or a Democrat.” It was launched, or at least popularized, by Jim Wallis and Sojourners, the principal evangelical Leftist organization of the time, and perhaps even still today. Wallis was not…

Here I summarily dissect a troublesome post from John Piper, long-time pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis and president of Desiring God. Original Pietism Likely no prominent evangelical exemplifies both the assets and liabilities of contemporary pietism more than Piper. Pietism is the 17th century Protestant (mostly Lutheran) movement led first…

During no July 4 of my lifetime have the cultural stakes been as momentous as they are in 2020. …

Several years ago my wife Sharon and I were visiting our son Richard at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he was launching his Ph.D. program in philosophy (he graduated this past May). Touring the campus, we approached the Department of Modern Art. I’ll never forget the description…

Behind the violent riots in the wake of the reprehensible killing of George Floyd is a pernicious web of ideas known as Cultural Marxism. Not that one in a thousand of the recent terrorists has ever read Marx or even consciously considers Marxism a guiding principle. …