https://zacharyconover.substack.com/p/the-lie-behind-all-truth-is-gods
In a time when Evangelicals are speaking in materialist terms of anxiety beginning in the hippocampus and resiliency and character being tied to the development of neural networks, we find an equally robust embrace of psychology (which ironically is rather subjective), dealing with concept of 'mind' as much as brain. Though I note that often the two seem to be conflated and confused. I suppose they would say integrated.
https://virgilwalker.substack.com/p/the-sermons-the-church-refuses-to
Once again Virgil Walker manages to raise some valid points and then miss the larger point. Has the modern Church succumbed to worldliness in the realm of gender and family structure? Absolutely, and this is even a problem in circles that otherwise are deemed to be very conservative.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/8/trump-and-the-global-rise-of-fascist-anti-psychiatry
This was an utterly frustrating read but it offers some food for thought, and like it or not, this is where things stand. These are the waters we must navigate.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65428204
By all accounts, there is a spectrum to modern feminism. Some
feminists hate men and turn toward androgyny or ironically to an emulation of
masculinity. Other forms of feminism celebrate femininity but it is recast and
breaks with older forms and understandings of what that meant – often in forms
of libertine expression – a certain conception of womanhood turned up a few
notches as it were. Sometimes as a concept it begins to breakdown and blur and even
poses as being anti-feminist – and yet ultimately is part of the same cultural subversion
that has dismantled the older understandings of womanhood that once prevailed
in society and certainly within the Church.
Are these serious people – or merely actors and clowns? The
Squad is trying to start riots?
Why do I have to keep hearing about Kathy Ireland? Why are these people celebrated for their supposed faith? The woman became famous in the 1980's for taking her clothes off. Tame by today's standards, this was a more innocent time and a publication like the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition was a big deal for teenage boys and young men – that was a lot of skin to lust over. It wouldn't even grab anyone's attention today but for years that magazine's annual release was a cultural moment and viewed as scandalous by anyone with a moral compass.
I'm not referring to gender confusion but to the conflation
of pronouns when it comes to the Church and the world. All things considered,
it's far more concerning than the sodomite rot that now dominates mainstream
airwaves.
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/is-the-spirit-of-1776-imperiled.html
In this editorial from
The Christian Post, the reprobate militarist and Southern Baptist leader Richard
Land continues to beat the drums of war. Land has produced many truly terrible
and anti-Christian commentaries over the years. This ranks among the worst. I'm
not sure what counterfeit Zion he inhabits but in his idolatrous pseudo-kingdom,
the great Christian concern of the hour is whether or not enough young people
are going to be willing to take up weapons and kill for the state.
https://julieroys.com/james-dobson-calls-for-assassination-vladimir-putin/
Some of us have long known James Dobson to be something of a
fool, a would-be politico who envisions himself as not only the Christian
Right's stalwart and wise leader, but the great moral discerner of our times – even
the Evangelical elder statesman, their version of Winston Churchill. And yet at
times the real evil and rot of his heart comes to the surface. This was seen
with his recent call for the assassination of Vladimir Putin.
Recently I've had the opportunity at work to listen to the radio during the noon hour, something that has largely eluded me for the past year. The Family Life Network (FLN) based in Bath NY continues to expand its listening area and unfortunately this includes the region of Pennsylvania where I live. A typically Evangelical organisation, its theology is light and is mostly geared toward therapy and entertainment-based 'ministries' complimented with copious amounts of trite and terrible Christian pop music.
Usually the only thing I bother with is their news show. And yet having listened very little over the past year (I only occasionally listen to their teaching programmes and I cannot stomach the music), I was struck by how much the organisation has shifted to the Right.
https://www.vcyamerica.org/crosstalk/2021/03/03/american-heritage-girls/
This is yet another example of the Accommodationist Triad
(see below) at work within Evangelicalism. Posing as cultural conservatives and
traditionalists, they assume one-time liberal (now Right-wing) arguments in
order to score their political victories. And yet the assumptions they have
embraced represent a fatal compromise of the very conservative values they
claim to uphold. Their arguments are ultimately self-defeating. It's a case of fighting
off an acute poison by the utilisation of a long term cancer.
https://www.opc.org/nh.html?issue_id=288
I was more than a little disturbed when perusing the January
2021 New Horizons, the magazine of
the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. As I have explained in the past as a former
member of that faction I used to pick a copy every month from the back table of
the auditorium and over the years I still keep tabs on the OPC and some of the
people I used to know within its ranks.
