by Gabriel Rench | Dec 11, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
Folks- In this episode author of Elite Execution, Jason Elmore, joins us for an interview, and in CrossPolitic news we discuss Chris Cuomo’s advent immigration devotional, Colorado’s gender problems, and USC students think “America is trash”....
by Gabriel Rench | Oct 4, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
We had the pleasure of having Dr. Michael Kruger, President and Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Reformed Theological Seminary Charlotte, to discuss liberalism and its infiltration into the church. Below is an excerpt from his...
by Gabriel Rench | Sep 30, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
CrossPolitic and Faithwire are teaming up to stream live on Facebook Sunday nights at 7pm Pacific time. Tune in here at 7pm PAC time tonight! Don’t worry if you miss us live, you’ll still be able to download the show on your favorite podcast platform....
by Managing Editor | Sep 30, 2018 | Blog, Laugh, Laugh Featured Post, Uncategorized
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by Gabriel Rench | Sep 14, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
On this episode of Law and Profits we discuss Jim Carrey’s recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher and The Gospel Coalitions anything but generous...
by Gabriel Rench | Sep 3, 2018 | Club Content, Uncategorized
Playing acoustic-based music that combines the melodic simplicity of bluegrass with the emotional expression of contemporary singer/songwriters, Jenny & Tyler are a husband-and-wife duo whose music and message are informed by their strong Christian faith. Jenny...
by Gabriel Rench | Sep 2, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
CrossPolitic and Faithwire are teaming up to stream live on Facebook Sunday nights at 7pm Pacific time. Tune in here at 7pm PAC time tonight! Don’t worry if you miss us live, you’ll still be able to download the show on your favorite podcast platform....
by Gabriel Rench | Aug 6, 2018 | Merch, Uncategorized
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by Jason Farley | Jul 26, 2018 | Abortion, Culture, Fight, Jason Farley, Politics, Theology, Uncategorized
What happens if Roe vs. Wade is overturned? That would be, no doubt, a good thing. We should rejoice when it happens. But how much of America’s difficulties are centered in the decisions of the Supreme Court? As a law, it is a judicial tragedy. But it is not enough to...
by Gabriel Rench | Jun 10, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
CrossPolitic and Faithwire are teaming up to stream live on Facebook Sunday nights at 7pm Pacific time. Tune in now here! Don’t worry if you miss us live, you’ll still be able to download the show on your favorite podcast platform. Also, you can tune in...
by George Grant | Jun 6, 2018 | Blog, Culture, George Grant, History, Religion, The Bible, Uncategorized
Poet, literary critic, and novelist, Arthur Quiller-Couch, was best known for his incomparable anthology, The Oxford Book of English Verse. As a lecturer at Oxford beginning in 1886 and a professor at Cambridge from 1912-1944, he taught an entire generation of English...
by Gabriel Rench | May 31, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
Folks, new episode just dropped tonight. We had the pleasure of hosting a joint podcast with Rebel Alliance Media. Rebel’s podcast is hosted by Pastor Nate Wright of Crossroads Alliance Church and Chris Poody out of southern Ontario. If you are in the area,...
by George Grant | May 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Like modern art, or an avant garde poem, or the latest haute fashions, secularism has always been hard to define. Though often pronounced with algebraic lucidity, its topsy-turvy logic is often as unintelligible as the dog-Latin of monkish hexameters. In practice,...
by Gabriel Rench | May 6, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
Live on Facebook Sunday nights at 7pm Pacific time. Tune in now here! Don’t worry if you miss us live, you’ll still be able to download the show on your favorite podcast platform. A couple housekeeping items: First, a shameless plug. There comes a time in...
by Gabriel Rench | Apr 22, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
Folks, as you know, The Gospel Coalition held the MLK50 Conference on April 3rd and 4th, which caused some consternation nationwide. You might find our recent interview with Thabiti Anyabwile helpful, and also our discussion with Pastor Voddie Baucham and Pastor Doug...
by Rhett Burns | Apr 11, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Politics, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
Three weeks ago, I wrote a response to Michael Gerson’s essay in The Atlantic about evangelical support of President Trump. I found it hypocritical that Gerson, a senior policy advisor to President Bush and a member of The White House Iraq Group, was lecturing...
by Rhett Burns | Mar 27, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, I reviewed Andrew Peterson’s beautiful new EP, Resurrection Letters: Prologue. His new full-length album will release on Good Friday, and in advance of that, The Gospel Coalition premiered the video for Peterson’s Revelation 5-inspired song, “Is He...
by Jason Farley | Mar 8, 2018 | Arts, Feast, Jason Farley, Theology, Uncategorized
Hannah, thank you for joining us at the Westminster Confession of Funk hosted by CrossPolitic. The Clouds Ye So Much Dread was such a delight to read. But it is obvious that a lot of tears and pain was required to fill this particular pen with ink. Do you find it...
by George Grant | Feb 26, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, George Grant, The Bible, Theology, Theology, Uncategorized
“Jeremiad.” Definition: an elaborate and prolonged lamentation; a cry of woe; and expression of righteous indignation. “Nehemiad.” Definition: an elaborate and prolonged humiliation; a cry of grief; an expression of righteous repentance. Well might we plead the case...
by Gabriel Rench | Feb 25, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
Dr. Sean Lucas and the Lost Legacy of Black Presbyterians Live on Facebook at 7pm Pacific time. Tune in now here! Don’t worry if you miss us live–you’ll still be able to download the show on your favorite podcast platform. We cannot thank our club...
by Gabriel Rench | Feb 18, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
This episode was brought to you by Classical Conversations. To find out more, please visit www.classicalconversations.com. Enjoy the show! Live on Facebook at 7pm PAC time every Sunday night, tune in now here! Don’t worry if you miss us live–you’ll...
by Toby Sumpter | Feb 17, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, Politics, Toby Sumpter, Uncategorized
As you have no doubt heard, there’s been another school shooting, and seventeen people are dead. An evil man took lives he had no right to take. His actions were full of hate and spite. These were human beings made in the image of God, most of them young people, lives...
by Rhett Burns | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
The best music is imaginative in the Chestertonian sense. It does not attempt to create a new world. Rather, it seeks to uncover and reveal the truth, goodness, and beauty God has already placed in this world, but remains hidden because we do not have eyes to see....
by Gabriel Rench | Feb 11, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
Live on Facebook at 7pm Pacific time; tune in now here! Don’t worry if you miss us live–you’ll still be able to download the show on your favorite podcast platform. First, a couple housekeeping items. Trinity Reformed Church Epiphany Lectures...
by George Grant | Feb 10, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Culture, Fight, George Grant, Politics, Uncategorized
All leaders are controversial. They invariably risk the ire of others. Because they stand for certain things, they necessarily stand against certain things. This causes them to stand out. It makes them more than a little peculiar in this plain vanilla world of...
by Rhett Burns | Feb 8, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl Sunday night to conclude a controversial NFL season. This year, pregame inaction eclipsed the action on the field, as many players refused to stand for the national anthem, choosing instead to take a knee in protest. Former...
by Gabriel Rench | Feb 4, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
Right after the Super Bowl–Live on Facebook at 7pm PAC time, tune in now here! Don’t worry if you miss us live, you will still be able to download the show on your favorite podcast platform. We are grateful to our sponsors, and encourage y’all to check...
by Rhett Burns | Jan 31, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
Mixed martial arts fighter Ronda Rousey became a professional wrestler Sunday night. The UFC women’s bantamweight champion agreed to terms with WWE and appeared unexpectantly on the pay-per-view Royal Rumble show in Philadelphia. Rousey, who won a bronze medal in judo...
by Gabriel Rench | Jan 28, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
We stream live on Facebook at 7pm Pacific time on Sunday nights; tune in now here! Don’t worry if you miss us live–you’ll still be able to download the show on your favorite podcast platform. A couple things to note up front. If y’all haven’t...
by Rhett Burns | Jan 24, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Fight Featured Post, Politics, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
It has been two weeks since President Donald Trump allegedly referred to Haiti and some African nations as “s***hole countries” in a meeting with congressional officials discussing immigration policy. In the wake of these comments, his detractors offered their...
by Rhett Burns | Jan 11, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
When Tua Tagovailoa woke up Monday morning, he was a relatively unknown backup quarterback for the University of Alabama. Sure, he was a touted freshman signal-caller, perhaps the future for the Crimson Tide. But on Monday morning, few college football fans outside of...
by Gabriel Rench | Jan 7, 2018 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
Folks, a couple things to note up front. First, Pastor Toby Sumpter will be at the 2018 Shepherds’ Conference in February. For more details, see our Upcoming Events below. Second, pay attention to our sponsors during commercial break. We are grateful for their...
by Gabriel Rench | Dec 31, 2017 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
Happy New Year! We are so excited for 2018, and already have a full schedule of interviews ahead of us. We are also working on some special projects that we’re hoping to announce this spring. We are also scheduling, as our time allows, one CrossPolitic Live show...
by Gabriel Rench | Dec 17, 2017 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
Folks, for the month of December, we invite you to celebrate advent with us by joining our club membership! If you sign up as a club member during December, and as supplies last, we will send you a CrossPolitic magnetic bumpersticker and a CrossPolitic special edition...
by Rhett Burns | Dec 11, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Fight, Politics, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
After another dismal football season, the University of Tennessee has now fumbled its coaching search. Last week, the Volunteers had reached an agreement to hire Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano as its head football coach. However, the deal was dropped...
by Rhett Burns | Nov 20, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
So…witches are on the rise. Sadly, this is not the beginning of a stand-up comedy routine, but a religious trend in the United States. According to this report, millennials are trading traditional religion for witchcraft and astrology. A majority of young adults...
by Rhett Burns | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
Twenty-six of our brothers and sisters in Christ were gunned down a week ago during Sunday morning worship in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The victims ranged from unborn baby to seventy-seven-year-old, including eight people from one family. Devin Kelley, dishonorably...
by Gabriel Rench | Nov 5, 2017 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
This episode is a must-listen. Elise Crapuchettes, homemaker, author, and Duke law grad, joins us to discuss her new book, Popes and Feminists. Before the Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church did not consider the calling of a wife and mother to be holy. The only...
by Rhett Burns | Nov 3, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
Racial reconciliation is all the rage these days, and rightly so. It is hard to deny the animosity and division that plague our nation and that race-based attitudes are often involved of such hostilities. Further, Galatians 3:28 and Colossians 3:11 are still in our...
by Rhett Burns | Oct 13, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Fight Featured Post, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was outed as a sexual predator last week in a New York Times story. Or, more accurately, he was outed nationally and with corroborating evidence. His predations on young women have long been the rumor of the film industry. Thus far...
by Rhett Burns | Oct 5, 2017 | Abortion, Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
Carrie DeKlyen, a Michigan mother of five, started getting headaches last March. After the pains worsened she saw a doctor, and scans showed a brain tumor. According to the Chicago Tribune, the pathology report revealed something more cruel: glioblastoma, a rare and...
by Gabriel Rench | Sep 10, 2017 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
We are back on our regular schedule! In this episode we had the pleasure of siting down with nationally acclaimed author N.D. Wilson. Wilson is the author of Leepike Ridge, 100 Cupboards, Dragons Tooth, Notes form the Tilt-a-whirl, and to our topic–Death By Living. He...
by Rhett Burns | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog, Politics, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
I’ve always wanted to watch an extended political interview where the host stubbornly refuses to allow the politician to retreat to pat answers and stump speech talking points, where he interrupts evasive techniques and forces arguments to their logical ends. Sure,...
by Rhett Burns | Sep 1, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
The LGBT war machine rolls on. According to the latest polling data from the Pew Research Center, natiohttp://www.people-press.org/2017/06/26/support-for-same-sex-marriage-grows-even-among-groups-that-had-been-skeptical/nal support for so called same-sex marriage is...
by Rhett Burns | Aug 21, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Politics, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
One of the central plays the Left is running is to paint Christians and conservatives with the same dirty brush as they do the alt-right white supremacists. They have been calling conservatives Nazis for years, a standard retort to such offenses as budgetary math and...
by Rhett Burns | Aug 11, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
“You have the command to remain silent. Anything you say, not approved by the vice president for diversity, can and will be held against you.” Or so it seems. Google employee James Damore wrote an internal memo addressing diversity and gender gaps at the company,...
by Gabriel Rench | Aug 6, 2017 | Podcast Episode, Uncategorized
Folks we hope your August is going well. As we have already noted, we are taking the month of August off, due to work and a special episode we have coming September 1st (stand by for details to be released next week or so). So this August we will be releasing reruns...
by Rhett Burns | Aug 3, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Politics, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
I recently returned from vacation where I swore off keeping up with the news in favor of logging lots of swim time with the kids and diving into some fun books. Two of the books were fascinating memoirs, and, though seemingly unrelated, they coalesced in my mind once...
by Ben Zornes | Jul 31, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Uncategorized
Stories are a DNA test for a culture. They show a culture’s its ideals, its perceptions of the world, its hopes for the future. Our stories reveal the marrow of our faith. That being the case, our increasing godlessness has resulted in stories of dystopia. Our...
by Rhett Burns | Jul 17, 2017 | Blog, Fight Featured Post, Politics, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
Last week I posted an interview with my friend Emily Buchanan of the Susan B. Anthony List, a political organization based in Washington, D.C. We talked about abortion politics and the SBA List’s efforts to end the abortion carnage. I greatly appreciate Emily taking...
by Rhett Burns | Jul 12, 2017 | Blog, Politics, Rhett Burns, Uncategorized
Recently I sat down with my friend Emily Buchanan to talk about abortion politics and her work as executive vice president of the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life organization in Washington, D.C. RB: Hi Emily, thanks for joining us. Can you introduce us to the SBA...
by Rhett Burns | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Politics, Uncategorized
Georgia’s food stamp program provides an interesting case study for thinking about the current debate surrounding social welfare. In good fiscal news Georgia has seen a sixteen percent drop in food stamp usage over the last four years, saving tens of millions of...
by Rhett Burns | Jun 20, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Politics, Uncategorized
Graduating senior Moriah Bridges was chosen by her class president to provide the closing exercise at Beaver High School’s June 2nd graduation ceremony in Beaver, Pennsylvania. Bridges, a Christian, included a prayer in her remarks, but the Beaver School District...
by Seth Bloomsburg | Jun 15, 2017 | Blog, Book Reviews, Culture, Theology, Uncategorized
In chapter one, “Moses and His Moisture,” Bell sets a precedent for how he argues in for the rest of the book. The two biggest problems he has are that, with a single exception in the whole book, he does not provide any citation for obscure cultural or...
by Luke Dickson | Jun 10, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Politics, Uncategorized
Thursday, former FBI director James Comey testified in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding the details of his relationship with Trump. Though the viewership numbers haven’t been released yet, some are projecting it to be the most watched political...
by Rhett Burns | Jun 1, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Politics, Uncategorized
Matt Walsh joined the CrossPolitic podcast this week to talk about his new book The Unholy Trinity, in which he takes aim at the Left’s “assault on life, marriage, and gender.” One point Walsh raised is that one of the Left’s strategies to make minority positions...
by Rhett Burns | May 25, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Fight Featured Post, Politics, Uncategorized
Venezuela is continuing its slide into disorder and mayhem. Protests against President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government have continued for almost eight weeks, and they are growing more violent each day and showing no signs of slowing down. At least fifty-five...
by Brian Points | May 15, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Politics, Theology, Uncategorized
Recently President Trump delivered welcome news to defense contractors across the country when he announced that the Department of Defense (DoD) budget would increase by $54 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, representing a 10% increase in military spending (Cohen,...
by Rhett Burns | May 11, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Uncategorized
This week in Washington, D.C. the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is hosting its World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians. Believers from over 130 countries gathered for the summit, with many of them sharing their personal stories of persecution....
by Rhett Burns | May 3, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Politics, Uncategorized
Recent attacks on Christian florists, bakers, and pizza-pie makers opened the Church’s eyes to the threat against our religious liberties. By refusing to rise and applaud today’s favored sexual perversions, Christians risk heavy fines and business foreclosures. In...
by Seth Bloomsburg | Apr 25, 2017 | Book Reviews, Theology, Uncategorized
The doctrine of the Trinity is summarized by seven basic propositions: 1. The Father is God. (Phil. 1:2, Eph. 4:6) 2. The Son is God. (Col. 2:9, Phil. 1:2) 3. The Holy Spirit is God. (2 Cor. 3:17, Acts 5:3-4) 4. The Father is not the Son. (John 10:30, Phil. 2:9) 5....
by Seth Bloomsburg | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog, Uncategorized
About a month ago CNN reported that across the country there have been several “Not My President” rallies, protesting the Presidency of Donald Trump. Probably most people have seen the hashtag #notmypresident running around. Interestingly, the article says, “In...
by Seth Bloomsburg | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog, Book Reviews, Uncategorized
When it comes to presuppositional apologetics, many seem to think that it’s only effective for various forms of atheism. As I’ve demonstrated in my articles about the Koran and the Book of Mormon, this is simply false. The worldview of the Old and New Testaments...
by Seth Bloomsburg | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog, Uncategorized
Instead of the usual blog post I’m simply going to give the readers and listeners of our blog and podcast a rundown of some happening events in the area. Voddie Baucham is visiting Moscow, ID at the end of this week. Collegiate Reformed Fellowship is hosting...
