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Planned Parenthood As Ultimate Orwellian

Over at Reformation21, Collin Gargarino has an excellent post which reinforces some of my own thoughts about Planned Parenthood. He writes: In the video Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services, clearly dismisses the idea that the transaction is the sale of fetal tissue. She says that “this should not be seen […]

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Littlejohn Reviews Leithart’s Between Babel and Beast

TCI contributor Brad Littlejohn has posted a very thoughtful review of Peter Leithart’s Between Babel and Beast over at Reformation 21. Some of Mr. Littlejohn’s observations echo my own review which I posted here some time back. Especially important are these remarks: Leithart’s ecclesiology seems to suffer from the same kind of overrealized eschatology and opposition between […]

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Carl Trueman and the Evangelical Industrial Complex

Carl Trueman has been an insightful even if biting critic of the current cult of celebrity and managerial rule among Evangelical Christians. This threat has made its way into the “Young, Restless, and Reformed” subcultures and even the more traditional Reformed ecclesiastical world. Having apparently not been warmly received in the past, Dr. Trueman here […]

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Carl Trueman and the Implications of Adam

Carl Trueman has a very helpful post connecting the theological dots related to the historicity of Adam and to the way in which Evangelicals read the opening chapters of Genesis. His point is that biblical doctrine is always connected and interrelated with itself, with certain basic doctrines supporting other later developments and fulfillments. We can go […]

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Two Kingdoms Redivivus: Is there still a fuss?

This past spring, I wrote a piece for this site engaging Matthew Tuininga’s essay, “The Two Kingdoms and the Reformed Tradition,” which had been published in several online venues. Mr. Tuininga is a former student of David VanDrunen, and it was my contention that despite certain helpful qualifications, Tuininga’s version of the Reformed two-kingdoms doctrine […]