church and state

Wang Mingdao – Against the Christless Christianity of the Authorized Church

Simonetta Carr
Jan 26, 2021
Wang Mingdao – Against the Christless Christianity of the Authorized Church After the Chinese Civil War and the victory of Mao Tse-Tung over General Chiang-Kai Shek, the Chinese government re-evaluated the role of Christian churches in the country. They allowed their existence, with restrictions...

Jonathan Edwards & Smallpox: Lessons from Edwards’s Fatal Experiment

Megan Taylor
Dec 27, 2020
Editor's note: In May 2020 Place for Truth published the article below from Megan Taylor. Judging from its number of shares it ministered to many people. Now, with vaccines for Covid-19 being distributed I thought that it might be helpful to republish a very fine piece. I am sure it will serve the...

Georgi Vins and the Christian Resistance to Soviet Religious Persecution

Simonetta Carr
Oct 20, 2020
Georgi Vins and the Christian Resistance to Soviet Religious Persecution On April 26, 1979, 50-year-old Georgi Petrovich Vins was woken up in his cell in the labor camp where he had been serving sentence for four years. He was asked to change into his own clothes, flown to Moscow, then told that he...
Empty Churches in the Days of COVID

California and the Church

Mortification of Spin
Sep 16, 2020
The state of California has gathered its pitchforks and torches and they’re coming after Grace Community Church, pastored by John MacArthur. The COVID-19 pandemic has opened doors to all kinds of government regulations, including—to no one’s surprise—restrictions on worship gatherings. The feud...
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Paul Gerhardt and His Songs of Confident Hope

Simonetta Carr
Mar 24, 2020
Paul Gerhardt and His Songs of Confident Hope In 1943, the German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote from his lonely prison cell, “I’ve lately learnt for the first time to appreciate the hymn, ‘Beside thy cradle here I stand.’ Up to now I hadn't made much of it; I suppose one has to be alone for a...

The Spirituality of the Church Speech

Nick Batzig
Feb 9, 2019
Kevin DeYoung recently wrote a post about what has frequently been termed "the spirituality doctrine of the church ." I heartily commend this post to our readers, as it is quite a helpful introduction to the basics of Presbyterianism regarding the relationship between church and state. In that post...

Andrew White, Todd Pruitt and John the Baptist

Richard D. Phillips
Jan 31, 2018
Over at Mortification of Spin , Todd Pruitt has made waves by sounding an alarm over Andrew White, the PCA ruling elder who--as a Democratic candidate for governor in Texas--has stated his commitment to legalized abortion and gay marriage . As reported by Pruitt, Mr. White stated on Texas Public...

Jesus and the Federal Budget?

Adam Parker
Mar 22, 2017
One of the interesting aspects of Scripture is that it doesn't tell us the precise way in which moral principles should be implemented in the civil sphere--even while it contains ironclad moral commands and lasting principles for the lives of God's people. This makes sense for quite a number of...

Migrations of the Holy

W. Bradford Littlejohn
Aug 28, 2013
William T. Cavanaugh. Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church . Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011, 208 pp. $18.00. Few political theologians over the past fifteen years have been as consistently stimulating or provocative as William T. Cavanaugh. Our author burst onto...