Todd Pruitt's Posts

Todd Pruitt's Posts

More helpful voices on race

Todd Pruitt
Jan 19, 2018
Given the profusion of regrettable things being said about race by those who are members of reformed churches like “repent of your whiteness” it is necessary to actively support those whose voices are aggressively marginalized . It does not take much to be marginalized in the current...

Trueman in Washington

Todd Pruitt
Jan 12, 2018
On Friday February 16 our friend Carl Trueman will be lecturing at the Washington DC campus of Reformed Theological Seminary . He will deliver two lectures on the subject of "The Road to Nowhere: How Our Understanding of Human Identity Has Changed and Why It Matters." If you are anywhere...

A Thought Experiment

Todd Pruitt
Jan 3, 2018
Imagine a man named A. Davis. Mr. Davis is a white nationalist and a former leader in the Nazi Party in the United States. He has had membership or at least close affiliation and sympathy with various domestic terrorist groups. The groups which he defends have been responsible for an array of...

My Favorite Books of 2017

Todd Pruitt
Dec 23, 2017
My pick for book of the year… Sanctification by Michael Allen Michael Allen has contributed the third volume in the New Studies in Dogmatics series. It is a feast and my pick for book of the year. I won’t try to describe the book other than to say that Dr. Allen grounds holiness in the...

R.C. Sproul: An Appreciation

Todd Pruitt
Dec 15, 2017
The first book I read from a Reformed scholar was The Holiness of God by R.C. Sproul. It was 1987 and I was a student at a Southern Baptist University. I had no idea what Reformed theology was or what Presbyterians believed. I picked up the book because the title struck me. Also, it was relatively...

Jones Reviews Frame's Review

Todd Pruitt
Nov 27, 2017
Mark Jones has written a review of John Frame’s review of James Dolezal’s fine book entitled All That Is In God . For good reason, Jones is puzzled by some of the statements in Frame’s review. Jones points out the rather uncomfortable fact that some of what Frame writes simply...

No Cross, No Gospel

Todd Pruitt
Nov 26, 2017
"For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared...

Reconciled in Christ?

Todd Pruitt
Oct 23, 2017
The dreadful condition of the conversation regarding racial reconciliation among evangelicals is a cause for sadness. Within the denomination to which I belong it has become rather toxic. Dissent from the approved narrative is met either with venom or dismissal. For instance I witnessed a black...

The NFL, President Trump, and Conservative Consistency

Todd Pruitt
Sep 27, 2017
I am a conservative law and order sort of guy. I like the idea of giving police officers the benefit of the doubt. I like it when NFL players stand for the National Anthem. But I also believe that conservatives like myself ought to be intellectually consistent. And I am seeing a lot of...

One more thought on Nashville

Todd Pruitt
Sep 8, 2017
I respect many of those who chose to sign the Nashville Statement. Some of them are friends. And, as I have stated before, I am in agreement with the substance of the document. However, any suggestion that those who drafted and/or signed the Nashville Statement are like John the Baptist is, to...