The Grinch and His Heart Problem
By Jesse Sumpter Hollywood does not understand the Grinch’s heart problem. The famous song has it correct: Mr. Grinch’s heart is an empty hole. But…
Category: Theology
In Diversity We Trust?
By Levi Secord Recently, I saw a man with “In diversity we trust” emblazoned on his shirt. Replacing “In God we trust” with this mantra…
Singing and the Sons of God: On the Recovery of Maximalism
Congregational singing is in the crosshairs of Covid-19 as public health recommendations and orders from civil magistrates in some areas of the country seek to…
The Justice of Poverty
By Levi Secord Central to the social justice movement is the belief that inequality of outcome is a telltale sign of injustice: things like income…
#StillPostmil
By Rhett Burns This year has been a doozy. Australia caught fire for weeks. United States forces killed Iran’s top general, Qasem Soleimani, stoking tensions…
Are You Serious?
Guest Article by Michael Foster and Bnonn Tennant Do you want to be taken seriously as a man? Most men do, but most men equally…
The Refreshing Reality of Hell
By Jesse Sumpter In dark times like these, one of our great hopes is the reality of Hell. It might seem odd to say that,…
What Christian Witness?
By Levi Secord One tired argument aimed at rowdy Baptists (and Presbyterians) is the need to protect our witness. As the reasoning goes, Christians should…
Seductive Statism: David Bahnsen, Robert Sirico, and Big Government
By Jesse Sumpter Thursday, April 9, Acton Institute hosted a live conversation on Zoom between David Bahnsen and Fr. Robert Sirico about the current Covid-19…
Coronaing Out of Control
By Levi Secord At this point, frustration, bewilderment, and despair rule over much of our world. As a pastor, I’m tasked with shepherding my flock…
World Baptized: the Riot and the Dance
By Jesse Sumpter I find the deep ocean to be rather intimidating. It is enormous. It is dark. You don’t know what is below the…
Book Review: The Book that Made your World by Vishal Mangalwadi
By Jesse Sumpter Vishal Mangalwadi, a Christian from India, has written a number of books. One of his recent ones is The Book that Made…
On How We Speak of Sin
Guest Post by Aaron O’Kelley In a 2013 essay, Thabiti Anyabwile wrote regarding same-sex marriage, “Turns out that being civil about indecency actually hurts the traditional…
Sabbath Harder: Eric Liddell and Complete Surrender
By Jesse Sumpter Christians should know how to keep Sabbath. I am not saying this the way that some in our culture would say it.…
Raise a Corporate Family
By Jesse Sumpter In December, I was part of a Local Summit. Actually, it was just a group of men having a casual conversation. But…
Absolutely True: the Hospitality of Francis Schaeffer
By Jesse Sumpter The best way to summarize Francis Schaeffer’s ministry is one of hospitality. That might seem a strange way to describe a figure…
Review 2019: Top 10 Blogazine Articles
Here are the ten most popular articles from the CrossPolitic Blogazine in 2019. These articles garnered a lot of attention this year and they highlight…
Doug Wilson Books: Best Reading Order
By Jesse Sumpter Sadly, No Quarter November is starting to wind down. On the other hand, you have all those great Doug Wilson books and…
Pastor vs Superintendent: Transgenderism in the Local School
By Levi Secord How does a pastor who gave up on public education a long time ago, and who homeschools his children, end up in…
The Tribalism of the NeverTrump Evangelical Elite, Pt. 2
By Stephen Wolfe This is the second of a two part series. The first part is found here. Trust Paul Miller’s presentation of civic trust…
The Tribalism of the NeverTrump Evangelical Elite, Pt. 1
By Stephen Wolfe When Donald Trump won the election in 2016, many evangelicals pondered the fate of their NeverTrump evangelical leaders. After months of pleading…
Why Origin Stories Matter
By Jesse Sumpter Everyone loves a good origin story. That is why we have so many movies about the origin of a particular character or…
The Endgame of Postmodernism
By Ben Zornes The Failed Plot of Subversivism Quote, “We like to be subversive,” unquote. The Russo Brothers stated this in an interview about their…
Can the Church Replace the Natural Family?
A few weeks ago, I wrote the following in this space: We should also stop conflating the church and the natural family as if the…
The Future is Familial
By Rhett Burns The Atlantic recently published an essay chronicling the childless American city, noting that New York City has shrunk for the first time…
Machen and Lessons for Today’s Liberalism
By Jesse Sumpter In the midst of the theological and cultural battles in our time–Revoice, Woke theology, Feminism–a wonderful resource to draw from is J.…
Singing is Slaying
By Rhett Burns Several weeks ago, I wrote here that feasting is fighting. But bread and wine and forks are not our only weapons as…
Motherhood in the Mission of God
By Rhett Burns At the most recent annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (my denomination), president J.D. Greear hosted a panel discussion entitled, Indispensable…
Jitters About Triggers
By Ben Zornes Politico once published an article––feverish with worry––that the clashes between white supremacists and antifa might soon escalate into a full-fledged wild west…
Losing Our Virtue: Relativism, Social Justice, & Intersectionality
By Levi Secord Meaninglessness. This is the legacy of relativism in society. It pervades just about every area of life—especially morality. In Losing Our Virtue,…
Our Inner Marxist Hates the 10th Commandment
By Ben Zornes We are all born with an inner Marxist. This is as much to say, we are born in sin. We are born…
Feasting is Fighting
In the war for the world, that ancient, yet active campaign to extend the rule of King Jesus to the four corners of the globe…
It Is So Passe To Come Out As A Gay Pastor, Unless You Are In The PCA
By Gabriel Rench I grew up in the PCA. I spent about 19 years of my life in that denomination. I was a member at…
Justice Redefined: How Social Justice Undermines the Gospel
Guest Post By Levi J. Secord The Q&A at this year’s Shepherds’ Conference revealed how deep the divide is within evangelicalism over social justice. In…
The Church is Plan A
By George Grant The Church is Plan A. And there is no Plan B. The Church is the means by which the Lord has purposed…
A Brief Primer on God’s Ordained Spheres of Authority
By Toby Sumpter Introduction We live in a world obsessed with power and power disparities. On the one hand, the modern world professes not to…
Endurance: From Beginning to End
By George Grant The race really does go to the tortoise and not the hare. It is perseverance that ultimately will win the prize, not…
Top 10 Blogazine Articles in 2018
Here are the ten most popular articles from the CrossPolitic Blogazine in 2018. These articles garnered a lot of attention this year and they highlight…
When the State Came for My Niece
Note from Managing Editor: Given the sensitive nature of this material, the author of this piece asked to remain anonymous. The author hopes this story…
Social Justice, Biblical Justice, and Our Discipleship Problem
By Gabriel Rench Justice Needs the Bible There has been a lot of chatter back and forth the last couple years around social justice and…
The Gods are Falling before Him
Guest Post by Joost Nixon Last year on a rainy day near Kathmandu, a Nepali friend and I were on an evening errand for milk.…
Choosing to Not Choose is Still Choosing
We knew it would only be a matter of time before this sort of thing becomes more common. A couple of women who identify as…
Forward Toward the Philistines
Guest Post by Jared Longshore Secularism is all in a tizzy. She is hot and pouty. She’s fired up and making her demands. She’s defying…
69 year old, Christians, and Pedophilia
By Jesse Sumpter You can’t make this stuff up. A 69 year old Dutch man, named Emile Ratelband, has decided he wants to identify as…
The Antifragile Pastor
Guest Post By C.R. Wiley, First Posted November 15, 2018 A lot of ink has been spilled on the subject of fragility, particularly when it…
What Happens if Roe Vs. Wade is Overturned?
Here is my concern about the overturning of Roe vs. Wade: what happens when the law comes? Sin revives and we die. To undo Roe is to choose the death …
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…
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…
The Whirlwind Bides His Time
Having recently had The Rev. Joseph Carlson as a Guest on the recent episode of CrossPolitic, I thought it might be nice to get one…
Abortion, the Death Penalty, and Our Nation’s Hypocrisy
Idaho Senator Bob Nonini has come under fire recently for nodding his head in agreement with the view that those who murder a baby in…
Easter Invitation – Bring Your Shipwreck
“The Church is like a great ship sailing the sea of the world and tossed by the waves of temptation in this life.” St. Boniface,…
Dread Clouds – An Interview with Author Hannah Grieser
Hannah, thank you for joining us at the Westminster Confession of Funk hosted by CrossPolitic. The Clouds Ye So Much Dread was such a…
Wing Lift
Wing Lift Psalm 91:3-4 Death-wrenched, life-drenched, each pinched soul fledged to soar on raptorial sails. A fowler-freed fire-bred goldfinch, carols unhitched, stretching and reaching, on…
Meaning It, Believing It, and Living It
It is one of the great ironies of our day that Christians can pray, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven,”…
Reformation Grace in “East of Eden”
This autumn marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s pinning of the ninety-five theses. Whether you’re Lutheran or not, Luther and the Reformers’ impact on…
Is Our Galaxy Worth Guarding? (A Sort-Of-Not-Really Movie Review)
It is true that nobody makes a new earth without first making a new heaven. – G. K. Chesterton (Ffinch 1986, 278) I have recently been wondering, if…