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Oct 7, 2024 | 
theaquilareport.com | Josh Abbotoy
It’s easier, in a sense, to accept that we were never morally good and never civilizationally great than it is to accept that we had something great, and we squandered it. But that’s the truth. Two inconceivably destructive World Wars destroyed Europe’s soul, killed off many of its best men, and devastated the old aristocracies.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
americanreformer.org | Josh Abbotoy
A couple weeks back, Daryl Cooper’s appearance on the Tucker Carlson Show – in which Cooper opined that Winston Churchill bore much of the blame for the violence of World War II – broke the internet. In the aftermath, a host of commentators breathlessly piled on Cooper, accusing him of being a Hitler apologist, if not a Nazi himself – an accusation that would be laughable to any fair-minded person familiar with Cooper’s corpus of work. Here’s what is really happening.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
conservativereview.com | Josh Abbotoy
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
thefederalist.com | Josh Abbotoy
America is in the middle of a rural land grab. Just last year, it was revealed that Bill Gates had acquired almost 270,000 acres of American farmland. Chinese companies and investors reportedly own 380,000 acres. It is estimated that investment firms own 1,650,000 acres. Millionaires and billionaires are swarming to buy up rural land as stories about food insecurity and potential social breakdown increase.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
americanreformer.org | Josh Abbotoy |Timon Cline
Americans should all pray prayers of gratitude today that God, in his Providence, ordained that the bullet intended for Donald Trump’s head missed its mark by an inch. Our nation was one inch away from cataclysm. But, with one disaster averted, now is no time for complacency or naive bromides. Our nation is a tinderbox. That it did not explode over the weekend is, in part, a testament to the right’s reticence to engage in direct action and political violence.
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May 10, 2024 | 
firstthings.com | Josh Abbotoy |Daniel Strand
Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposalby matthew t. martenscrossway, 416 pages, $34.99
Matthew Martens, a career attorney and an evangelical, believes that criminal justice needs a new ethic, specifically, a Christian one. Drawing on a range of theological and biblical texts, he argues that we should “conform such a system to Scripture”—that is, to “Christ’s love for accused and victim alike.” From the command to love our neighbor, he says, we are required to do justice for them.
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Mar 2, 2024 | 
centerforbaptistleadership.org | Josh Abbotoy |Jon Whitehead
The path forward for addressing sex abuse within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is deceptively simple: Baptist accountability. By Baptist accountability, we mean the accountability that naturally flows from the biblical and historically Baptistic principles that undergird the cooperation of autonomous local churches while preserving their direct accountability to God.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
americanreformerpodcast.podbean.com | Josh Abbotoy
Rosaria Butterfield, who needs no introduction, joins Timon and Josh to talk about everything from LGBTQ to critical theory to egalitarianism to low birth rates. Listen in for a fresh perspective on evangelicalism's ill-fated accommodation of critical theory, the erosion of doctrinal integrity within the Church, and specific debates within the Southern Baptist Convention regarding egalitarianism.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
americanreformer.org | Josh Abbotoy
As the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) prepares for its spring meeting February 19-20 in Nashville, TN, a public debate is brewing around the perennial issues of financial disclosure and transparency in Southern Baptist life. This discourse has been catalyzed by Rhett Burns, Pastor of First Baptist Church of Travelers Rest, South Carolina, who will be presenting to the Executive Committee to make his case for enhanced financial accountability measures.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
americanreformer.org | Josh Abbotoy
Last week, the United States Department of Justice announced that it will be suing Texas to stop enforcement of Texas Senate Bill 4, a law intended to allow Texas law enforcement to help enforce federal immigration law. You can read the complaint here. If I were advising Governor Abbott, here’s what I would tell him: You are uniquely situated to be a hero by acting to stop the long-standing immigration crisis. The State and much of the nation are standing ready to support you in this effort.
