A guest post by Jordan Wilson: “Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places” (2 Kings 12:3). “How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log […]
The “spiritual” mission of the church, and the trail of dead bodies behind it
In one of my recent lectures at the Providential History Festival, I quoted this important insight from R. W. Southern: [I]t is important to appreciate the forces which confined and directed the development of the church, for ecclesiastical history is often written as if these forces did not exist, or existed only to be overcome. […]