Letter to a Denominational Minister An Inquiry into the Authenticity of American Christianity by Stuart DiNenno March 29, 2023 This is a letter to Michael Spangler, who is a Christian minister ordained in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) but is currently affiliated with the Cornerstone Church of Burlington, NC, which is a Presbyterian congregation of … Read more
A Conversation on Race Between Two Christians by Stuart DiNenno February 27, 2023 What follows is not an actual conversation but one that has been manufactured to best exemplify the doctrines of what is called kinism (according to my conception of it, others may differ), and to juxtapose them against the positions held by egalitarians. … Read more
Adger: Southern Slavery Was a Civilizingand Christianizing School for Negroes “Now, it is true, and will forever remain true, that our Southern slavery was just a grand civilizing and Christianizing school, providentially prepared to train thousands of negro slaves, brought hither from Africa by other people against our protest, some two hundred years ago. Never … Read more
Some Biblical Examples of Kinism by Stuart DiNenno Kinism is God forcefully separating the nations into distinct ethnic groups by confusing their languages and not allowing them to blend into one nation. (Genesis 11:1-9) Kinism is the fact that every nation we see mentioned throughout the Bible consisted of people who were the offspring of … Read more
Dabney on the Blessing of Christianizationfor the African Slaves In America “Was it nothing that they [Africans] should be brought, by the relation of servitude, under the consciences and Christian zeal of a Christian people, in circumstances which most powerfully enlisted their sense of responsibility, and gave free scope to their labour of love? Let … Read more
Oliver Cromwell and the Whitehall Conferenceon the Readmission of Jews to England The following is excerpted from The Parliamentary or Constitutional History of England (c. 1763), Volume XX, pages 473-477. It addresses the Whitehall Conference of December 1655 which was called by Oliver Cromwell to consider readmission of the Jews to England. All Jews had … Read more
Various Commentators Against a Literal Interpretationof Jesus’ Teachings on Not Resisting Evil “And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other.” (Luke 6:29) Pulpit Commentary (1890): “This and the following direction is clothed in language of Eastern picturesqueness, to drive home to the listening crowds the great and novel truths … Read more
John Wesley, False Apostle of Free Will by Angus Stewart(republished from original article found here) John Wesley, A BiographyAuthor: Stephen TomkinsOxford: Lion Publishing, 2003Paperback, 208 pagesISBN 0 7459 5078 7 The “Veneration” of Wesley In 24 short chapters, Stephen Tomkins has given us an interesting and readable life of the heretic, John Wesley (1703-1791). This … Read more
King: The Gift of Tongues Was the Gift of Foreign Languages “There are those who say Paul’s epistles present the gift of tongues in a very different connection from that of being supernaturally enabled to speak foreign languages for the purpose of evangelizing. Paul speaks of the gift as being exercised in churches already formed … Read more
A Christianity That Does Not Inform UsHow To Live, Is No Christianity At All by Stuart DiNenno It is not enlightenment that is being displayed, but a kind of intellectual and spiritual poverty, when Christian speakers or writers who have an accurate understanding of theology constantly harp on matters of soteriology (e.g., TULIP, salvation by … Read more