The Pilgrim Underground
Dispatches and Discernment From the Wilderness Way
01 May 2024
Why do we Pray for Kings and All in Authority?
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https://mitchchase.substack.com/p/to-lead-quiet-and-peaceful-lives It was refreshing to find this author focusing on the Neronic context of...
29 April 2024
More Worldly Wisdom from Ramsey
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/considered-good-income-america-dave-113400372.html Worldliness dominates Ramsey's thinking. 'A good...
27 April 2024
Sacralist Sacrilege and the Constantinian Shift
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https://breakpoint.org/thank-god-for-constantine/ It is Stonestreet that misunderstands the impact of Constantine and the result of his leg...
25 April 2024
A Few Lessons From Norway
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https://www.jw.org/en/news/region/norway/Jehovahs-Witnesses-to-Appeal-Unconstitutional-Ruling-in-Norway/ This unfortunate if instructive a...
24 April 2024
The Tragedy and Travesty of the Trumpite Youth
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https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1239344999/young-voters-conservative-donald-trump-republican-party My oldest memories of Trump are from the ...
21 April 2024
Trueman's Desecration of Christian Sensibility
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https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/02/desecration-at-st-patricks-cathedral Is Trueman still a Protestant? One is baffled b...
17 April 2024
Bannon Abroad
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https://www.politico.eu/article/steve-bannon-rome-right-wing-gladiator-school-populist-nationalists/ In some respects this is a 'nothi...
11 April 2024
Niger Turns Against Washington and Yellow Cake 2.0
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68590531 Niger it seems has grown weary of Washington's presence in West Africa. Having ousted t...
08 April 2024
Christo-Trumpism is not just Fascism - it's Antichrist
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I keep seeing hats, shirts, signs, and stickers proclaiming Jesus is my Savior and Trump is my President . It's becoming a basis for fel...
06 April 2024
The Rights Granted by America's Enlightenment Creator
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A few weeks ago the Christian and Right-wing media-spheres blew up over comments made by Politico's Heidi Przybyla in which she seemed t...
04 April 2024
Kirk Cameron Rejects the Teachings of Christ
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https://www.christianpost.com/news/kirk-cameron-says-christians-shouldnt-tolerate-tyranny.html It's somewhat astounding when these Dom...
02 April 2024
Baptising Feminism and Twisting History
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https://breakpoint.org/motherhood-myth-busting/ Stonestreet wants to 'bust' myths about motherhood. How does he do it? With Scriptu...
01 April 2024
Christian Nationalism, Gaza, and the Ghosts of Beziers
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/21/us-congressman-andy-ogles-stirs-outrage-with-gaza-comment-kill-them-all After this story broke ...
28 March 2024
John MacArthur's Latest Episode of Hypocrisy and Schizophrenia
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https://www.christianpost.com/voices/john-macarthur-vs-christian-nationalism.html The California megachurch pastor has long attacked Chris...
27 March 2024
The Theology of the Zealots is Alive and Well on Planet Earth
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https://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelical-leaders-back-israel-call-on-us-govt-support.html One need not turn to a vile rag like the mi...
26 March 2024
Constantinian Ethics at their Worst
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https://www.beautifulchristianlife.com/blog/how-do-christians-in-the-military-love-their-enemies-and-do-good-to-them A follow up to: http...
24 March 2024
The ISIS-K Attack on Moscow
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It's fairly obvious that Western media wants to find a way to put an anti-Putin spin on the Moscow theatre attack. There are hints that...
23 March 2024
Manila Throws in with AUKUS Against Beijing
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https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/historic-speech-from-philippines-president-makes-veiled-swipe-at-china/news-story/3b5593d7b992f...
22 March 2024
Paris,Yerevan, and Baku
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https://eurasianet.org/armenia-azerbaijan-macron-stirring-things-up-in-the-caucasus Baku is in a fairly cozy relationship with Washington a...
20 March 2024
Tooley Keeps Spinning the GMC
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https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/mainline-methodist-left/ Mark Tooley continues to mislead regarding the 'conservative' G...
16 March 2024
New Information Regarding the 2004 Coup in Haiti
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https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/01/secret-cable-cia-haiti-coup/ See also: https://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2021/11/a-dominionist-e...
13 March 2024
Evangelical Misunderstandings of Modi's Relationship with the US
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https://www.christianpost.com/voices/indias-pm-modi-wages-war-against-christians-with-impunity.html Pardon my cynicism but if Trump were pr...
11 March 2024
Shame on the UMC and on these Congregations Trying to Leave It
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https://www.christianpost.com/news/court-rules-against-42-churches-trying-to-leave-the-umc.html Ostensibly these congregations wish to leav...
10 March 2024
Sacralism versus Satanism in Iowa
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https://www.christianpost.com/news/man-who-toppled-iowa-satanic-display-responds-to-critics.html Reading the Christian Post is wearisome bu...
09 March 2024
The Truth Americans Don't Want to Hear About the 2024 US Presidential Election
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https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/12/31/i-dont-care-who-wins-the-us-presidential-election Mitrovica's editorials often catch my e...
05 March 2024
Appropriating Tolkien by Means of Anachronism
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https://www.politico.eu/article/inside-giorgia-meloni-hobbit-fantasy-world-lord-of-the-rings-fratelli-italia-brothers-italy-politics/ As o...
02 March 2024
A Ridiculous Essay About Anti-Trump Evangelicals
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https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/the-resistance-will-be-organized I think I've just about had my fill of Aaron Renn and for that matter the...
28 February 2024
Mike Johnson, the Evangelical Speaker of the House
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https://www.npr.org/2023/11/15/1211536399/speaker-johnson-christian-nationalism-evangelical With so much happening in the news, stories li...
27 February 2024
The Age of Lithium, India, and Argentina
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/eye-on-china-india-inks-first-overseas-lithium-mining-deal-for-five-blocks-in-argentina/articlesho...
25 February 2024
Evangelical Narratives about Trump and Haley
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A couple of weeks ago while listening to the BBC, an American Evangelical leader attempted to explain his faction's overwhelming allegia...
21 February 2024
South Africa and the American Empire
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https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/us-politicians-call-for-review-of-relations-with-sa-for-supposedly-undermining-national-security-20240...
19 February 2024
Some Perspective on Navalny's Death
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Listening to the near breathless and morally outraged coverage of Alexei Navalny's death, several things come to mind.
18 February 2024
Theologians of the Beast and Ivory Tower Takes on Empire
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/empires-foreign-and-domestic/id1677193347?i=100063749953 Since the American Reformer keeps popping u...
15 February 2024
Spawn of the CIA and a Son of Suharto
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx35KRYbf1g Prabowo is actually the former son-in-law of Suharto, the Indonesian dictator who came to powe...
13 February 2024
The Lingering Strength of the American Empire
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/30/americas-undying-empire-why-the-decline-of-us-power-has-been-greatly-exaggerated This piec...
11 February 2024
Croatia, the UK, and the Curse of Militarism
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https://www.thedefensepost.com/2024/01/23/croatia-military-conscription/ https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/48472-john-humphrys-time-f...
08 February 2024
The Seven Churches of Revelation - A Key to Church History?
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https://taylormarshall.com/2024/01/1053-6th-age-antichrist-according-17th-century-mystic-holzhauser-podcast.html Trumpite (and thus non-Tr...
06 February 2024
Lausanne Movement Antics in Austria
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https://evangelicalfocus.com/europe/25053/austrian-evangelicals-invite-politicians-to-church-our-faith-is-not-an-import The fact that thes...
01 February 2024
Preying on Fear: The Crime-wave Hype
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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fbi-report-crime-down-republican-election-fear-rcna121384 https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-new...
29 January 2024
Random Thoughts on the Dead Americans in Jordan
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When the story broke over the weekend I immediately thought of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and how happy he must be at this news. He wants...
28 January 2024
DiLorenzo's Latest Attempt at Red Baiting
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/new-york-state-assemblyman-tony-simone-wants-to-bring-back-forced-labor/ This post caught my eye and ...
27 January 2024
Ethiopia's Foray into Somaliland
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Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed has generated a great deal of frustration within Washington. He waged war on Tigray and the ethno-political factio...
25 January 2024
Mohler's Vanguard Nation
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It's been some time since I listened to Albert Mohler. Those who know my writings know that I'm not in any sense a fan of the semina...
23 January 2024
Humanitarian Border Patrols and Buffers for Fortress Europe
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/22/eu-to-start-releasing-money-to-tunisia-under-migration-pact This is but one in a series of incide...
19 January 2024
The Revival of Franco and Francoism
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/15/us-far-right-francisco-franco-spanish-civil-war This caught my eye because I've heard re...
16 January 2024
Lamenting the Decline of Sacral Marriage
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https://issuesetc.org/2024/01/03/0032-the-demise-of-the-augustinian-view-of-marriage-dr-allan-carlson-1-3-24/ Listening to this latest ins...
14 January 2024
The Missing Element in the Packaging of Vocation
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https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/is-work-good Reading this piece from Ligonier, it felt like a sale pitch, like I was being sold a ...
11 January 2024
Italy and the BRI
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67634959 There is an evident reciprocity taking place between Italy's Right-wing coalition gover...
09 January 2024
Evangelical Support for Israel
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67422238 This is but one of many articles making the rounds over the past couple of months since ...
07 January 2024
Evangelical Feminism in Europe
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https://evangelicalfocus.com/=life-tech/24403/spanish-baptist-faculty-of-theology-includes-feminism-in-its-curriculum Building bridges to ...
03 January 2024
Welcome to Age of BRICS+
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-66525474 The world is changing, a new order is forming. This has been in the air for sometime but a milesto...
01 January 2024
Costa Redefines the Kingdom
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https://www.ironsharpensironradio.com/podcast/december-22-2023-show-with-dr-tony-costa-on-no-king-but-christ/ There were many good points ...
30 December 2023
Celebrating Milei: Regurgitating American Evangelicalism in Argentina
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https://evangelicalfocus.com/features/24413/reflection-on-the-election-of-milei Hugo Marquez demonstrates in sometimes painful terms how t...
27 December 2023
Reflecting on Sproul
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https://kuyperian.com/episode-101-r-c-sproul-and-his-legacy/ I recently stumbled across this podcast. Brito is known to me through his CRE...
26 December 2023
Inbox: Isn't the embrace of Christian Nonviolence a case of over-realized eschatology?
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It can be among those who argue for it in universal terms, who insist on it for the nations this side of glory. Or to put it differently, th...
25 December 2023
The Anabaptist Straw Man
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https://adfontesjournal.com/andrew-koperski/christians-in-the-employ-of-the-pagan-empire/ In many ways the linked article simply repeats a...
24 December 2023
Pentecostal Problems in Belarus
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https://evangelicalfocus.com/europe/22551/belarus-authorities-demolish-worship-place-of-vibran-evangelical-church There's a small bit ...
20 December 2023
The Naked McCarthyites on John Birch Radio (aka VCY's CrossTalk)
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https://www.vcy.org/crosstalk/2023/12/05/what-meaneth-these-stones/ The linked episode represents another case of par for the course when...
19 December 2023
Rehabilitating Vlad the Impaler: The Extreme End of Revisionist Church History
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https://www.christianpost.com/news/historical-dracula-was-actually-a-committed-christian.html I've written on more than one occasion a...
16 December 2023
The Revival of the Bin Laden Letter
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I've enjoyed following some of the recent furor surrounding the so-called Bin Laden Letter which first emerged (I believe) in 2002.
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