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It Need Not Go This Far
A sizable portion, if not the majority, of my readers are Reformed Christians.
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The 9th Commandment
On Friday, journalist Janet Mefferd wrote an excellent, detailed piece on her personal experience with a SBC pastor and the Director of Expository…
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Revilers Will Not Inherit the Kingdom
Because of my writings against so-called Reformed Christian Nationalism, my private messages have long been a steady stream of “Have you seen this…
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Grifting in the Name Of...
Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the…
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It's Not Rocket Science
The self-described “Reformed Christian Nationalist” movement, from its inception, has been dominated by a short list of personalities:
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August 2025

It's Just Like That Other Thing, But Christian
The phenomenon of people starting small, direct-to-market businesses selling everyday products that offer no distinguishing key value proposition from…
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Know Your Role and Shut Your Mouth
Talk to pretty much any deconstructed millennial woman about why she left the church and one of the first things she’ll bring up is 1990s and early…
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The Stupidity of Our Age
It takes a lot for me, three years into chronicling Christian Nationalism, to be genuinely shocked by someone claiming to stand for Christ while pushing…
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Your Mileage May Vary
On a Sunday morning, nearly twenty years ago, as I sat in the back of a Foursquare megachurch that I had been attending for some months with a group of…
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It's a Feature, Not a Bug
The Christian Nationalist movement has devolved to such a insane degree that only the most uninformed or deluded will make the case that its most…
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The Bubble
I was not raised in cultural evangelicalism—quite the opposite.
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Taking My Ball and Going Home
I find myself at a theological and ecclesial crossroads, brought about by four conclusions I have reached, after much deliberation:
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