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A Decades-Old Warning for Evangelical Christians is More Relevant Than Ever
This article first appeared in National Review. In the years after the Second World War, an American theologian delivered a dire forecast about the future of Protestant Christianity. Unless the...
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Wednesday Worship with Joseph Moss
The Institute on Religion and Democracy was pleased to host Joseph Moss, Pastor of the Dranesville Church of the Brethren, to deliver the Wednesday Worship sermon for the month of January. Interested...
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UMC Should Not Be Unitarian Methodist Confederacy
While the UMC’s official, “on paper” Doctrinal Standards and its Book of Discipline’s stance on marriage remain theologically orthodox, how much have United Methodist bishops done their job of...
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The Challenge of Easter’s Counter-Cultural Servant King
In Western Christianity’s liturgical calendar, Eastertide – or the Easter season – begins on Easter day and continues until Pentecost Sunday. The message of Eastertide is nothing less than profound:...
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Exploring Wesleyan Theology and Asbury Revival
IRD Board Member Dr. Kenneth J. Collins, a leading scholar in historical theology and Wesley Studies, recently appeared on the Young and Sanctified podcast to share his expertise in Wesleyan theology...
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Ted Weber’s Wesleyan Political Theology
Mark Tooley Hello! This is Mark Tooley, President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. Here in Washington, DC. hosting an approximately 30 minute conversation with scholars and friends about...
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Reflections on the Coronation of King Charles III
On May 3, The Institute on Religion and Democracy, through the John Wesley Institute and its director, Dr. Ryan Danker, hosted Father Philip Corbett SSC, a priest of the Society of the Holy Cross in...
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The United Methodist Schism was a Long Time Coming
(The following is excerpted from an op-ed published by the Dallas Morning News.) So far this month, about 900 church congregations in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Oregon, Pennsylvania,...
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Please, Sorry, Thanks
On May 31, The Institute on Religion and Democracy was pleased to host Mark Batterson, the pastor of National Community Church in Washington, DC, who discussed his recently released book, Please,...
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Christ’s ‘Queer’ Resurrection?
The core of Christianity is the Gospel: that all humans are sinful and deserve death, but Jesus Christ the Son of God lived a perfect life and offers salvation to sinners through his death, burial,...
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On Heresy
One of my most treasured belongings is also one of the most humorous. During graduate school at Boston University, I was known for calling out any and all comments that could even remotely be...
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“Sparkle Creed” Is Dim & Dull
There was an online hullaballoo last week about the “sparkle creed” at a very progressive Lutheran church outside Minneapolis. Offered as a substitute for more traditional creeds, the clergywoman...
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Bishop Tim Whitaker on Learning to Die
“Nobody wants to die,” they say, and many of us do not even want to think about it. Happily belonging to the company of Christians whose beliefs and ways of living are counter-cultural to the West in...
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Mainline Seminaries All-In on ‘Queering the Divine’
Progressive divinity schools and churches have transitioned from an embrace of inclusivity to instead uproot the fundamental principles of theology. Queer theology branches from Marxist-influenced...
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Machen and Religious Liberalism, Old and New – Part 2
An earlier article reviewed an analysis of J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism by Pierce Taylor Hibbs of Westminster Theological Seminary, relating it to the therapeutic culture of our...
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Hermeticism: Ancient Heresy Erupting into Modern Politics
The ancient heresy of Hermeticism has, in recent years, made inroads into contemporary Western culture via thinkers such as Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson. Hermeticism is a set of...
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The Question of the Biblical Canon
The question of the canon of the Bible, which concerns which books are inspired by God and thus the final rule of faith and practice, has recurred over the centuries, and is especially important for...
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