I thought “I should wipe this pee off. If I was in the garden, or the new heavens and new earth, there would be no pee on the toilet seat. I wasn’t created to pee on the seat nor were people created to have to sit on my pee.” And...

In Japan, the earliest reference to Kuyper can be attributed to Takakura Tokutarō (1885-1934), a pastor and theologian of the Japan Christ Church. In a 1923 work, he drew attention to Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism as a proper analysis of the relation between Christianity and culture. Takakura most likely read...

Join us we sit down with Steven Garber and identify and discuss the core longings of the human heart – especially those of the Christian. We ask questions like “how can Christian’s experience God?” - “Is Abraham Kuyper’s mysticism unachievable?” - “What values is there in merely reading about God...

It was autumn of 1978. I was just beginning two years of graduate education at Toronto's Institute for Christian Studies (ICS). Because my chosen field was political theory, I intended to study primarily under Bernard Zylstra (1934-1986), who had completed his own dissertation at the Free University under philosopher and...

Dutch Neocalvinism comes to Brazil from the first publications of the American theologian Francis Schaeffer and the paraecclesiastical institution L’Abri, responsible for spreading Schaefferian thinking and making known neocalvinist authors, whose works aim to instrumentalize believers for their involvement in public spaces. “L’Abri Brasil” is thus characterized as an important...

Abraham Kuyper visited the United States in 1898, and his trip occasioned not only the famed Stone Lectures but a number of other memorable events as well. Among these was the collection Varia Americana, in which Kuyper reflected on the real-world experiences in a country that had loomed large in...

Listen in as we sit down with the treasurer of the heritage of neo-Calvinism himself: Dr. George Harinck. In this episode we survey the spread and implications Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck thoughts and teachings. This interview is kicking off a series that will run the next few months at...

“God with us.” God with us? “YHWH with us” (But isn’t that the first person of the Trinity?)? Jesus left, but he leaves the Spirit? And that’s better how? Join us as we sit down with Myk Habets to nuance the points of contact, the roles of, and the relations...

Chad Bird is in the business of turning on lights. If you crack open one of his books, or listen to his podcasts, don’t’ be surprised if one of his hands comes out of the book and flips the switch on your Old Testament understanding. Most of us see the...

Mark Driscoll, based upon the charges brought against him from Mars Hill leaders and members, was unfit to be a pastor, but, if you didn’t attend Mars Hill, is that any of your business? What is your role (if any) in this painful experience?