Westminster Larger Catechism 🧵 Q. 143. Which is the ninth commandment? A. The ninth commandment is, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 1/

Congrats Knicks. Happy for y’all. The Knicks haven’t beaten OKC since November 21, 2022. See you next year.

To be clear, I believe it’s entirely permissible to speak at essentially any conference you can imagine, regardless of how wicked the organizers, vendors, or other speakers are. However, this is only true if you come prepared to flip over some tables (literally or figuratively). Otherwise, you’re either a coward or compromised.

In case it couldn’t be more clear, @AmReformer / @NewFounding /@BaptistLeaders (overlapping leadership, same business address, same funding) have at least two of their investments and/or business partnerships listed as “pro-white” by this list made by the Nazi publisher, @AntelopeHill. It’s time for the discerning to cut ties. Far past time. Pull your articles. Make the cut. These ideas and associations will only be made more clear as time goes on. Things are coming to the light.

Reminder that this is the same group who made a hype video last year that spliced in Nazi propaganda footage. This is a group that is too far gone for Douglas Wilson. Please, fathers and brothers, don’t make full-on Nazism the line that mustn’t be crossed. We can and must show better discernment than that.

Please take note of the people who didn’t need explicitly Nazi propaganda being sold at a conference for them to notice a problem. I’m thankful it’s a wake up call for some folks. But we’ve had other wake up calls. There’s always another wake up call. So please wake up.

“It’s not happening and it’s good that it is”

They’re very “normal.” Trust them. They say they’re normal all the time. Super normal. Most normal. Peak normal.

God bless NAPARC’s faithfulness to the Scriptures and the gospel. That’s the tweet.

Or hold conferences for the sake of “normal.”

As far as I understand (almost?) every NAPARC denomination has now officially condemned kinism. There is no place for kinism in NAPARC. Full stop. No officer may hold those wicked beliefs, and we must pray for and help any members who do to grow into Christian maturity.

If you look at the qualifications of elders in 1 Timothy and Titus, you’ll see that Paul emphasizes qualities of character. It’s important to be able to preach and teach, but it’s even more important to be an example of Christlikeness that others can imitate.

Wolfean Christian Nationalism shares a lot in common with classical Protestant political theology, however, the implicit and explicit racialism in his Christian Nationalist schema is highly anachronistic to early Protestantism and is largely a modernist identity ideology imported onto older ideals. The magisterial Protestant tradition did not ground political order in an explicitly racialist, ethnically homogenous nationalism in the way Wolfe does. Whatever their many failures and blind spots, figures like Luther, Calvin, Bucer, Zwingli, and the later Reformed orthodox framed politics in terms of magistracy, law, and the church’s catholicity, not in terms of preserving a particular modern racialized people‑group as such. Wolfe’s kinist‑leaning ethnonationalism is a distinct, much later development, not just “old‑school Protestantism.” It has more in common with 1840 Virginia or 1990 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho than Calvin’s Geneva.

While ignorance will often play a role in kinism, race-realism, and/or ethno-nationalism, I don’t believe for a second that you arrive at these ideas by simply being ignorant. You get to it by racial vainglory, racial animus, and oftentimes fearfulness. Framing the issue as fundamentally a matter of ignorance is simply not accurate and significantly lightens the moral burden in a similar way as painting women who get abortions as ignorant or as victims.

I remind everyone that Oxford has yet to publish a Very Short Introduction to Vonnegut, and I am a struggling academic willing to do whatever is necessary to make this happen.

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Spineless. Soft. Evil.

The PCA Study Committee on Christian Nationalism has released a partial report, and it is superb. @ReformTheoSem professors from @RTSCharlotte @rtsorlando & @RTSJackson served in this important work. byfaithonline.com/christian-…