Dr. Hobbs’s stinging memoir pulls back the curtain on the type of culture that has been the breeding ground for the worst of American Christian fascistic views for decades now. She lived through it—right literally through the middle of it. She’s an eyewitness who needs to be heard.
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While many people, including his own students, may be unaware, Talbot was an ardent defender of the Lost Cause, including its worst aspects, going so far as to affirm the Dred Scott decision and the KKK, and to preach racist propaganda from The Birth of a Nation, smearing black people, from the pulpit in several ways.
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I am told repeatedly that “the textbooks never told you” all the allegedly hard truths about the Civil War, slavery, and racism. There’s just one big problem with this thesis. . . .
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I encourage all young men and women to liberate yourself from any would-be thought leader, gluttoned on their delusions of grandeur and sense of self-importance at the center of some imagined reformation, who would hold you back from investigating the full truth of such matters as racism, the Lost Cause myth, women's rights, equality, a career, and any other disapproved education in which you may be interested. Rebel against their self-professed authority on such matters. Tell them to take a hike, you'll follow what you want to read beyond your primary studies.
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We learned that the truth about the fake quotations in Fault Lines is even worse than we thought. Not only has Voddie attributed false quotations, he has done so repeatedly AND it appears he plagiarized some of the fake material in the process.
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The full series of Dr. McDurmon’s extensive video review of Voddie Baucham’s book Fault Lines.
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The infighting about in-feeling (empathy) has paid off—a little anyway. Here’s why, and more. . . .
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Because some people abuse empathy, James White and others have taken it upon themselves to redefine empathy absolutely as a sin in and of itself. This autonomous abuse of language has no warrant or support in history, scholarship, or practice. Instead of this unfortunate advice, Christians need to understand the power of empathy as a pathway of sanctification and healing of relationships. We need to engage in proper empathy much more!
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The abuse and tyranny these “patriarchs” say they despise in liberals and “Marxists” is in fact their own heritage, and is the animating force in their own midst. The vulnerable continue to suffer, and the patriarchlist system naturally attracts those lusting for power and fit to abuse.
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The reason I said that some loyalists would do the president’s dirty work is because they have said so. A recent article by U.S. News relates such stories. Take for example, one representative Trump supporter, a chiropractor from Texas, a professing Baptist, who recently joined a militia willing to fight for Trump. The dude told reporters, “If President Trump comes out and says: ‘Guys, I have irrefutable proof of fraud, the courts won’t listen, and I’m now calling on Americans to take up arms,’ we would go.”
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Is 2020 really the most important election ever? Knowing some history should be helpful.
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Too many Christians retreat into the spiritual bypass of “just preach Christ” or “you missed the Gospel” or “don’t feed the perpetual grievance machine!” We need a robust law AND works approach that addresses racial reconciliation.
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If biblical law in society and culture is going to be our claimed mission, then reimagining and reinventing a 1950s paradise is a hypocritical, ignorant, hurtful, and losing venture. But our movement’s history shows we are tangled up with the worst of that era while praising its facade.
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Too many theonomic models end up designing a backward-looking, tyrannical state. Trying to reinvent 1950, or 1850, or 1650, they create a broad civil power which would result in a fascistic tyranny. Such reconstructions are not biblical, but traditional. They should be abandoned for a fully biblical, forward-looking, biblically-progressive view of God’s law, as the New Testament would apply it, for today’s times.
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Greg Bahnsen’s work on Theonomy was both foundational and fatally deficient in a crucial area. I share this bit to highlight the need for why I wrote Bounds of Love and then A Consuming Fire. I still think we need to take this deficiency more seriously, so I highlight it again here. But I also think more work yet needs to be done to clarify more matters about God’s Law in the New Testament era and the modern world.
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One study numbers a staggering 275 clergymen who published defenses of slavery. In all, around half of all such defenses came from the pens of Christian ministers—almost all of which were conservative, Bible-believing Protestants. Astoundingly, in 154 of those cases, the written defense appeared in official church publications.
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During his most active years, this man treated hundreds of thousands of souls and achieved unheard-of sobriety rates—without narcotics. The model he developed after decades of research, education, and practice rises as a proven beacon of hope amidst our epidemic today. So why did the Deep State move to crush it? What follows is an amazing true story of an amazing man and what appears to be a mind-boggling evil plot by powerful interests.
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What we are introduced to in these books is the foundation for all that is to come.
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