Today is Epiphany, the day the Western churches celebrate the coming of the Magi to Bethlehem and the Eastern churches commemorate Christ’s baptism....
Christmas Paradoxes
The infinite became finite, the eternal and supratemporal entered time and became subject to its conditions, the immutable became mutable, the...
Advent and the Many Comings of Christ
For My Non-Liturgical Friends: A Quick Introduction to the Church Year The church year takes us on a liturgical journey through the story of our...
On Earth As It Is In Heaven: Overcoming Functional Deism In The Modern Church
Dr. Glenn Sunshine presents at the 2024 Post Tenebras Lux conference in Tacoma, Washington. https://youtu.be/Lhx3Uc7hvEA?si=uW62OxMYqvD0Yzq0
Sacral Community in a World in Crisis – Reformation Celebration 2024
Coram Deo Church hosted the 2024 Reformation Celebration on November 3rd in Bremerton, Washington.
Church and State
How Christianity invented the conflict between church and state
A Prayer for Election Day
No matter who wins, apart from God’s intervention, the slide into evil will continue.
Quodlibet: Apocalypse
What is Apocalyptic Literature? How should we read or understand such writings? Is it indeed the end of the world as we know it?......
Christ Over All – Interview with Glenn Sunshine
Listen in as David Schrock and Stephen Wellum interview Dr. Glenn Sunshine on his recent book, Slaying Leviathan: Limited Government and Resistance...
What Happened in the Atonement?
Theologians have offered a variety of theories about the nature of salvation and what happened in the Atonement. Early Theories One of the earliest...
Standing, Kneeling, and Sitting: Postures for Prayer
Prayer in the Bible In the Bible, people prayed using several postures, most of which we do not use today. In...
A Prayer for Our Nation
A prayer from Dr. Glenn Sunshine. Nations like ours are set up so that, typically, we get the leaders we...
Some Thoughts on Baptism
When Protestants (and I’m including Baptists in this category) talk about baptism, they usually focus on...
Remembering St. Augustine of Hippo
On August 28, 430, St. Augustine of Hippo died. Perhaps the most important father of the early Church, Augustine’s writings shaped Western theology...
Lessons from Lewis: Two Ways of Knowing
My first post on things I learned on my trip to Oxford focused on Lewis’s dual approach to apologetics. He made reasoned arguments for the Christian...