Posts by Kevin Schaal
Book Review: Biblical Separation: The Struggle for a Pure Church, by Ernest Pickering
On August 21, 2024, Tom Raabe published an article on the American Spectator website entitled, How a Church Fought Back Against a Liberal Takeover—And Won. In his article, he tells the story of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church and its battle with theological liberalism within the denomination. The story reminded me that every generation of…
Read MoreAbortion vs. Free Speech
Which of these election issues is more important to a believer? For the past 50 years, many Christians focused their political choices on one issue — abortion. It is not hard to see why. Killing the unborn matters to God. Governments are supposed to protect the weak and murder — abortion — matters to the…
Read MoreKamala Harris Says She is a Baptist
This is the religious identity she claims according to the Deseret News. Throughout her political career, Harris has also drawn strength and inspiration from the Baptist tradition, which is one of the many Christian denominations that comprise Protestant Christianity. She was introduced to the Baptist Church by her father, Donald Harris, and still identifies as…
Read MoreMost Americans Believe God Played A Role In Human Origins
Most U.S. adults believe human beings came about because of divine intervention, but there’s disagreement over what that involvement looked like. A Gallup survey finds 37% of Americans believe God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so. Additionally, 34% say human beings developed over millions…
Read MorePro-life activist arrested for praying awarded over $16K | World
A pro-life activist arrested for silently praying outside an abortion clinic has been awarded a financial settlement from police. Yet concerns remain about the rights of abortion opponents who want to silently protest the killing of pre-born babies in the United Kingdom. The law firm ADF UK announced Monday that Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a pro-life activist who…
Read MoreTransgender, Intersex, and the Olympics
He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him. Proverbs 18:13 Now that the 2024 Paris Olympics are over–and I have taken some time–I am willing to comment. Years ago I was a founding member of another blog site—when online blog sites were something somewhat new. I remember…
Read MoreSelf-Censoring Your Faith is Denying It
The boldness of the anti-God contingent around the world has been withering over the last five years. While it rose in the final two years of Trump’s presidency, it boiled over in the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020 and then with the election for Joe Biden that fall. It all goes together.…
Read MoreThe Plot to Queer Evangelical Churches | Megan Basham | First Things
For the next hour and a half, he listened as Stanley went on to contend that modern pastors must make allowances for gay and lesbian couples to be married in their churches because “that’s as close as they can get to a New Testament framework of marriage.” Visconti remembered Stanley likening same-sex attraction to a…
Read MoreThe Doctrine of Ecclesiastical Separation is Being Lost—We Cannot Let It Happen
Last night, I sat with some GenZ college students and talked about the history of fundamentalism. We talked for two and a half hours. I tried to answer every question and be as candid as possible about the strengths and weaknesses of biblical Baptist fundamentalism over the past 100 years. The conversation is typical of…
Read More“A Few Inches from Civil War”
“A Few Inches from Civil War” is how one commentator described the attempt on Donald Trump’s life on Saturday. I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things.’ Isaiah 45:7 I am sure many of you have gone through the “what if” scenario in your mind. But…
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