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Historic Trump Meeting With Kim Jung Un, Immigration and Romans 13, and Raising Sturdy Kids.

Hair Flapping in the Wind: On the SBC and Women

My denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, held its annual meeting last week. In response to current cultural trends, namely the #MeToo movement and the Paige Patterson fiasco, leaders and messengers spent a significant amount of time...

Cake Bakers, Crossfit, and The French Revolution

I was recently sitting in on a lecture from a local university professor on the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. Whitworth University’s Dr. Van Inwegen explained that there are stories from history, “that help us understand the world...

Nouveau Pelagianism

In his Confessions, Augustine (354-430) describes mankind’s universal sinful bent as “concupiscence.” The Greek word epithumia (ἐπιθυμία) occurs 38 times in the New Testament. It describes the utter enfeebling of mankind’s freedom of will through...

Immediately

Poet, literary critic, and novelist, Arthur Quiller-Couch, was best known for his incomparable anthology, The Oxford Book of English Verse. As a lecturer at Oxford beginning in 1886 and a professor at Cambridge from 1912-1944, he taught an entire...

Facebook, Evangelism, and the Control of Information

Adam Ford has sold the Christian satire news site, The Babylon Bee. Launched in 2016, the Bee employs The Onion-style satire to spoof American evangelicalism—its popular pastors, authors, and fads—while taking occasional jabs at our larger secular...

Education and Hope

Haarlem is a beautiful little Dutch town on the River Spaarne, fifteen minutes by train from Amsterdam. Founded sometime in the 10th century, in 1245 it was granted city status or stadsrechten and was made the capital of the province of North...

Islam, End Times, and the Imago Dei

Last week was crazy. The United States moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Hamas greeted the move in their usual manner, which means with bombs and human shields. Major media outlets portrayed Hamas in their usual manner, which means...

Just Preach It

When I was in seminary, the “Church Growth Movement” was just getting its sea legs. So, of course, it was all the rage in the hallowed halls of academia—if not amongst the profs, most assuredly amongst their charges. Filled with uninformed...

Investigating Us – An Interview with Musician Joel Ansett

Joel, thanks for joining us at The Westminster Confession of Funk, hosted by CrossPolitic. So you have a new Kickstarter out. Your last one was a big success. What have you learned about yourself as a musician since your last kickstarter, “The...

Alfie Evans and the Post-Familial World

By now the tragic story of Alfie Evans is well known. The English toddler with an undiagnosed neurodegenerative disorder died last week, five days after doctors extubated him and abandoned all treatment, except palliative care. A judge denied...

The Social, Economic, and Political Decline of Education Since the 1970’s

Jun 10, 2018

CrossPolitic and Faithwire are teaming up to stream live on Facebook Sunday nights at 7pm Pacific time. Tune in now here! Don't worry if you miss us live, you'll still be able to download the show on your favorite podcast platform. Also, you can tune in and watch us...

CrossPolitic and Faithwire Team Up, Candidate for Governor Diane Black on Porn and School Shootings, and UK Rounding Knives?

Jun 3, 2018

Rebel Alliance Joins Us to Discuss Canadian Politics

May 31, 2018

Folks, new episode just dropped tonight. We had the pleasure of hosting a joint podcast with Rebel Alliance Media. Rebel's podcast is hosted by Pastor Nate Wright of Crossroads Alliance Church and Chris Poody out of southern Ontario. If you are in the area, check...