Our Calendar Is Killing Us
The Crisis of the Common Era by John Heers, First Things Foundation What is time? It’s weird, right? If you think of time you inevitably start to think of aging and movement, a passing, a thing that is going “forward”…
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The Victory of the Gospel Brings Opposition
by Pastor Andrew Isker Introduction In the Book of Acts, the people of God are sent out to conquer the world as Israel conquered Canaan in Joshua. The Holy Spirit has come down in power on the Day of Pentecost…
God’s Judgment in the New Covenant
by Pastor Andrew Isker Introduction In Acts, the church is the New Covenant People of God. God’s people are in a similar situation as Israel in the book of Joshua. Jesus has crossed the Red Sea of death and led…
The Tyranny of Enlightened Freedom
Dostoevsky vs the World by John Heers, First Things Foundation Freedom is a hard thing. It can be confusing. It is essential to the understanding of both law and love. It presents itself as both a means to an end…
The Old Temple Versus The New Temple
by Pastor Andrew Isker Introduction Can you think of the boldest stand you have ever taken in your life? A time when you knew you were right, where you stood publicly for something true and just and everyone else around…
Divining the Dream Machine: Part 3
Science-Fiction, Hollywood, and the Technology of Antichrist by Thomas Millary Weston’s Evolving Worldview The worldview of sci-fi has spilled out from fiction into pop-intellectualism from the beginning. Father of the genre HG Wells was also a social critic, whose books…
Divining the Dream Machine: Part 2
Science-Fiction, Hollywood, and the Technology of Antichrist by Thomas Millary “The Art of Dreaming” After decades of obsession with movies and pop-culture, Jasun Horsley realized that Hollywood is hell. His book “16 Maps of Hell: The Unraveling of Hollywood Superculture”…
What Is Capitalism?
The Binding New World Ligament by John Heers, First Things Foundation Most people in the world accept the idea that capitalism is an economic system. For most people capitalism is a thing you use, a system in which you participate…
Israel’s Second Chance
by Pastor Andrew Isker Introduction In each of the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), as Jesus preached against the wicked and perverse generation in Israel, He made a statement that has puzzled many Christians even to this day. “Blasphemy…
Mythologizing Modernity
The cosmic tale goes ever on by The Saxon Cross History is dead. Or, so I was told. For a long time, I believed it. Not because I wanted to, but I could see the world around me. It was…
Re-Considering Doug Wilson’s “Covenant with Hagar” Part 2
by Gabe Harder Defining the Covenant To this point, it should be clear that the “covenant with Hagar” is key to Wilson’s brand of soft supersessionism. What’s equally clear, however, is that this particular covenantal arrangement evades precise definition, and…
Re-Considering Doug Wilson’s “Covenant with Hagar” Part 1
by Gabe Harder Introduction Doug Wilson’s “American Milk and Honey” is now available. There’s a great deal in the book worth commenting on, and I anticipate engaging with that material more broadly in the near future. In the lead-up to…