How best to describe Calvinism's relationship to art? Perhaps, "It's complicated!" In all seriousness, I would argue the relationship between the two is generally misunderstood and too often underappreciated. https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/calvinism-and-art

Christian use of images in worship has long been controversial, including in the early church. Contrary to what many believe, however, the early church tended to reject images, and they didn't become common facets of worship till the 4th century. https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/the-history-of-images-in-the-church

15 July 1099: Capture of Jerusalem by Crusader forces during the First Crusade. Illustration from a 14th century manunoscript.

The handful of disagreements between Catholics and Protestants on justification can be distilled into several questions: the nature of justification (substantive v. forensic), the action of justification (infusion v. imputation), the instrument of justification (faith v. baptism). https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/justification-key-questions

Many Roman Catholics believe that Luther invented the doctrine of sola fide and coined the term in his translation of the Bible into German. However, nothing could be further from the truth. https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/did-luther-invent-sola-fide

By almost any metric, the United States government has been growing quite rapidly ever since its formation. Not only has this trend accelerated dramatically over the past few decades, it’s hit warp speed with the covid control. This has prompted many Christians to critically contemplate exactly where the limits of the civil magistrate end. https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/when-can-christians-disobey-the-government

A recent poll found 47% of Republicans believe the time will come when patriotic Americans will have to take the law into their own hands. Another found that more people - right and left - are considering secession. Another found that 66% of southern Republicans and 47% of west coast Democrats favor secession as well. t’s time we begin thinking through these things in a serious, deliberate manner, and what better place to begin our study than in the civil war our nation has already endured? https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/was-the-civil-war-justified

Synergists on suicide watch

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Capitulating will not stop them.

It never ends…