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Evangelical Earnestness: Why it means we cant have nice stuff, and more tales from 1850s New England
In 1851 an orthodox Congregationalist minister delivered a sermon on earnestness to his parish in Danville, Vermont. He preached from Acts 4:13, which stated…

Church Music Is Just the Worst (Circa 1330)
Pope John XXII had some specific opinions on church music, which he expressed in his bull Docta sanctorum patrum. But some disciples of a…

Natural Law, Naturally Known
For this week’s “Melanchthon Monday,” a short passage on the law of nature, and our natural knowledge of it, that I have translated from…

Some thoughts on A Protestant Christendom? The World the Reformation Made.
In the past several weeks The Davenant Institute has published Andre Gazal’s edited edition of George Carleton’s Jurisdiction Regal, Episcopal, Papal and a larger…

The Virtue of Aggression
We live in an age wary of aggressive pastors. But is it always such a bad thing?