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On Reading Badly

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 10, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, History, Social Justice

I happened to be wandering around twitter a few days ago—I’ve been trying to collect evidence of “virtue signaling,” which is all the rage as you all know—and came across something that bothered me lots more than that. I don’t think that the author of the tweet was...

#16: Nuclear War: A Defense of the Traditional Family

by Matt Kennedy | Aug 28, 2020 | History, Jesus, Podcast, Sexuality, The Gospel

In this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss marriage and family, the biblical warrant for the “nuclear family,” whether it is an institution worth defending, and attacks on the idea from some evangelicals, more revolutionary...

Totalitarian Moments IV: “Guilt Was Hereditary”

by Mark Marshall | Aug 18, 2020 | History, Totalitarians

Ever had a book that you bought, maybe read a few pages, then put on the shelf to collect dust – only to take it down years later and really read and be amazed by what you were missing? Red-Color News Soldier by Li Zhensheng has become such a book for me. Li in...

Totalitarian Moments III: Elections and Dark Jokes

by Mark Marshall | Aug 13, 2020 | History, Totalitarians

Power to the people who say “Power to the people.”That is an old joke. Nonetheless it still summarizes well the attitudes of Communists towards democracy and towards who should have political power. Yes, there have been any number of Marxists who have said they are...

Totalitarian Moments – “Silent As the Tomb”

by Mark Marshall | Jul 21, 2020 | Freedom of Speech, History, Totalitarians

Perhaps you have experienced what I have experienced frequently in recent months. I‘ve seen history repeating or at least echoing and I’ve thought, “So this was what it was like when . . . .” And I’ve been completing that sentence with when totalitarians of various...

#10: Free Will was Bound to Come Up Again

by Matt Kennedy | Jul 17, 2020 | Anglicans, History, Jesus, Podcast, The Gospel

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick continue their conversation about free will, discussing the differences between Reformed views, Pelagianism, Arminianism, and even Molinism. The more in charge God is, they decide, the better the Good...