Current Theme | October 2024
Christ Over All the “Isms”: Totalitarianism, Globalism, Feminism, etc.
Statism. Globalism. Feminism. Environmentalism. Totalitarianism. If Paul were asked to address these big, bad isms, along with their counterparts in Big Pharma, Big Ed, or Big Tech, the Apostle would likely answer that they are all part of a world system designed to enslave God’s people. Based on his letters to Ephesus and Colossae, it seems certain Paul had an awareness of the co-belligerence of heavenly powers and earthly rulers to oppose Christ and his bride. The question is: Do we have such awareness? And how can we deal with the threat of the ever-increasing state? As we prepare for a November election where globalism will be on the ballot, we consider how Christ is over all these ideologies, and how the church might address these growing threats.
Table of Contents
Longform
What Evangelicals Must Learn from the Last Decades of American Politics
By Stephen Wellum • Longform Essay • October 2nd
What has the evangelical church gotten wrong in the past decades, and where ought we go in light of where we are?
Concise
September Intermission: From Voting to Vetting All the Isms
By David Schrock • Concise Article • October 3
Join us as we progress from voting to the Glory to God in September to the many isms the Church Faces in November.
Concise
Preparing for Pandemic 2.0 with Help from a Dead Prime Minister
By Aaron O'Kelley • Concise Article • October 2
Pandemic 2.0 happens. How do you respond? With some guidance from an old friend named Abraham Kuyper.
Concise
The Childless Utopia
By P. Andrew Sandlin • Concise Article • October 4
The world of postmodern dreams is one without children. Christians cannot succumb to this mindset, and must continually commit to a biblical view of children and family.
Concise
Destructive of these Ends: The Demonic State According to Revelation 13
By Levi Secord • Concise Article • October 7
Christians are given a general command to submit to the state, but what is faithfulness when a state becomes a beast?
Podcast
3.52 Auron MacIntyre, David Schrock, Trent Hunter • Interview • “The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies”
By Auron MacIntyre, David Schrock, Trent Hunter • Interview • October 2nd
Listen in as David Schrock and Trent Hunter interview Auron MacIntyre on the concepts from his book: The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies.
Concise
Romans 13: Submission, Not Unquestioning Obedience
By Ardel Caneday • Concise Article • October 9
What does submission to the government look like when the government has gone off the rails?
Concise
The Antihuman Insanity of Net-Zero Climate Policy: How Climate Catastrophist Energy and Farming Policies Threaten Human Thriving
By E. Calvin Beisner • Concise Article • October 10
What are the effects of net zero climate goals on society at large?
Concise
Statism, Totalitarianism and the Sovereignty of God
By Joe Boot • Concise Article • October 11
Statism--where civil government exerts substantial, centralized control over much of society--is one of the greatest threats to churches in the West today.
Concise
Autonomous Man: Battling the Tyranny of Selfism
By Nate Schill • Concise Article • October 14
What happens when the self is king?
Podcast
3.53 Stephen Wellum, David Schrock, Trent Hunter • Interview • “What Evangelicals Must Learn from the Last Decades of American Politics”
By Stephen Wellum, David Schrock, Trent Hunter • Interview • October 14
Listen in as David Schrock and Trent Hunter interview Stephen Wellum on his recent longform, "What Evangelicals Must Learn from the Last Decades of American Politics."
Concise
Idols of Power: When Government is God
By Herb Schlossberg • Concise Article • October 16
What happens when the cry of every citizen to the state is "Our Father, in the seat of government, hallowed be thy name..."?
Concise
Schaeffer Contra Statism: A Biblical Analysis of the Past for the Present
By Michael A. Wilkinson • Concise Article • October 18
Around fifty years ago, a type of prophet predicted where our society would be today. These are his words.
Concise
Transgenderism and Homosexuality: Hindu Monism’s Philosophical Triumph
By Vishal Mangalwadi • Concise Article • October 21
There is an unusual relationship in the West between Hinduism, homosexuality, and transgenderism.
Podcast
3.54 Glenn Sunshine, Stephen Wellum, David Schrock • Interview • “Slaying Leviathan: Limited Government and Resistance in the Christian Tradition”
By Glenn Sunshine, Stephen Wellum, David Schrock • Interview • October 22
Listen in as David Schrock and Stephen Wellum interview Dr. Glenn Sunshine on his recent book, Slaying Leviathan: Limited Government and Resistance in the Christian Tradition.
Concise
Nationalism, Globalism, and American Nationality
By John Wilsey • Concise Article • October 23
When cosmopolitan Globalism is on the Left, and ambiguous forms of Nationalism are on the Right, what path ought the Christian citizen take?
Concise
Theodore Roosevelt: the Toppling of Statues, the Death of Patriotism, and Fervid Americanism
By John Wilsey • Concise Article • October 25
With globalism on the rise and patriotism at a low, Theodore Roosevelt would like to have some words . . .
Longform
Slaying Feminism: Ending the Impossible Quest for Sexual Interchangeability
By Doug Ponder • Longform Essay • October 28
Striving for male and female equality in every way is destroying us—and there's a better way.
Podcast
3.55 Doug Ponder • Reading • “Slaying Feminism: Ending the Impossible Quest for Sexual Interchangeability”
By Doug Ponder • Reading • October 28
Listen in on Doug Ponder's Longform Essay entitled, "Slaying Feminism: Ending the Impossible Quest for Sexual Interchangeability"
Concise
How Crowds Work Leaders, How Leaders Work Crowds
By Trent Hunter • Concise Article • October 30
It's a two way street, and it leads to death. But not every one.
Podcast
3.56 Doug Ponder and David Schrock • Interview • “Slaying Feminism: Ending the Impossible Quest for Sexual Interchangeability”
By Doug Ponder and David Schrock • Interview • November 1
Listen in as David Schrock interviews Dr. Doug Ponder on his Christ Over All essay: “Slaying Feminism: Ending the Impossible Quest for Sexual Interchangeability"
Concise
Encore: A New Testament Scholar Explains What Should Be the Two Key Voting Concerns for Christians
By Robert Gagnon • Concise Article • November 1
Two idols strike at the heart of God's creational design than others. And these idols are worth opposing with all our might.
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