The covid emergency is so allegedly severe that he calls on society to redefine its social contracts by giving government a larger role and elites more power, while shrinking individual rights.
Read moreUnderground Railroad 2021?
People think they would have hidden Jews from Nazis or that they would have helped slaves pass to freedom via the underground railroad if only they’d lived in those times. Maybe you think you would have.
Read moreWomen's Ordination, the Seminary & Structural Damage to The Church
On Thursday, October 28, 2021, the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Theological Seminary, in Berrien Springs, MI, USA, held a meeting in which they persisted in their advocacy of women's ordination.
Read moreRod Dreher: The Benedict Option--Kirkpatrick Reacts
We are thrashing desperately in the midst of liquid modernity, with change occurring so rapidly that we can hardly latch down moorings to anything.
Read moreThe Woke Danger 7: Trapped in a Fiction
The woke phenomenon, and its various manifestations represents a totalizing worldview. A totalitarian movement usually at last results in a one-party state that owns all of you. Not even private thoughts are permitted.
Read moreWomen Elders Vote Is a Step Away from the Bible
To continue the practice of ordaining women as elders, just now, when God’s church has opportunity to be a voice for the kingdom instead of the culture, is to wave the white-flag of surrender.
Read morePope Francis: Let Us Dream—Kirkpatrick Reacts
Outwardly, the ‘Pope in lockdown,’ cut off from the people looked helpless. Yet those close to him told me the opposite: that he was energized by what he saw as a threshold moment, and the movement of spirits beneath its surface.
Read moreHow to be AntiRacist
At every turn, whether it is feminism, gayness, lesbianism, racism, transgenderism, Kendi aligns with the new views all occupied with critiquing, deconstructing, revising, reenvisioning the important history and values which underwrite our civilization.
Read moreBeth Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood—Kirkpatrick Reacts
I’m looking at Barr’s book because some members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have been attempting to introduce the practice of women’s ordination (WO) to the gospel ministry.
Read moreThe Woke Danger 5: White Fragility Theory and Christianity
Christianity, at its very core, is a positive and uniting religion because it sees humans as a single group. It teaches that “He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth” (Acts 17:26). in contrast, critical race theory is intentional about dividing us.
Read moreThe Paradox of Equality
World leaders claim to be advocates of diversity, but what they attempt is to apply to us the uniformity of the copy machine, with them making the copies.
Read moreThe Woke Danger 4: Hegemony, Cultural Marxism, and Critical Theory
Jeffries observes that “if Adorno were alive today he might well have argued that the cultural apocalypse has already happened, but that we are too blind to notice it.”
Read moreThe Woke Danger 3: Collectivist Roots and Shoots
Paul Kengor writes, “Marx was an atheist-utopian who envisioned a ‘new morality’ without God. The path to utopia was a classless albeit godless society.
Read moreThe Woke Danger 2: From Evergreen to the Purge
In short, what happened at Evergreen College in 2016-2017 is happening right now on the national scale in the United States. The woke danger is now impacting American life at the highest levels.
Read moreThe Danger of Wokeness (Part 1): Applied Postmodernism
We are saddened by incidents of unjust violence, but the reality is more nuanced than the claims of systemic racism. We should become aware of the deeply laid agendas which undergird the architecture of wokeness.
Read moreThe Word of God Vs. The Communist Primer 'Rules For Radicals'
There’s not much to like about Alinsky but at least he does not hide his goals. He is at war with the way the world is ordered and intends to bring it down and replace it with his communist vision.
Read moreChristian Duty To Government
A part of our duty to the world is to give intelligent obedience, and not to train ourselves to obey human directives which can endanger our obedience to Jesus.
Read moreChristians in The Land of 1984
How are you able not to bow down to the idol (Daniel three) if your awareness of what idolatry is is so very dim that you might not even recognize the phenomenon? How can you know it is an idol when the values of Babylon are the frame within which you live your life?
Read moreAll Hail
The virus is real. But whether the intentions of government leaders are good or evil, it will be the vector for a terrible infection of state power over us.
Read moreJesus And Our Work Now
Open apostasy must be confronted, but the truth be told, many of our battles are small and better left unfought. Jesus and the Holy Spirit can do more for us than harsh words.
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