Brandon Zaffini
@jethrothekenite
Professor of political science, Army veteran, husband, and father of five. Everything is political; therefore, everything is also of interest to me.
Yes, but hear me out: BCE = Before Christian Era and CE = Christian Era.
BCE and CE are highly subversive Don’t trust anyone using the new speak
Protestantism didn't arrive in 1517. Celtic Christians were already saying "The Pope of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this realm" in the 6th century. St Columbanus in a letter to Boniface IV:
I once "converted" from the LCMS to the OPC, and years later I "converted" from the OPC to the RPCNA. Only neither of these moves was actually a "conversion" or major shocking news. Those who believe otherwise are revealing much, I think, about how narrowly they define orthodoxy.
I don’t mean to insult my Anglican friends on this one but every person I know who has ever converted to Anglicanism (including its founder) didn’t do so because of some Anglican distinctive but basically just because he was trying to get away from something else.
The Anglican Church is a Christian denomination in the Reformed tradition, and becoming a member of such a church is not an act of apostasy.
Yes, well, many of us are not, in fact, surprised, at all. I just wish the folks who mocked and ridiculed me for pointing out the dangers down that road would now wake up and go, "Hmm, maybe there is something to this?"
Read this thread. If all thrones, dominions, rulers and authorities were created both through and for Christ (Col. 1:16), then in some sense they are all covenantally obligated to bow the knee and submit to His authority.
some say that only the rulers of nations in a holy covenant with the Lord may promote true religion but that raises a whole lot of tough questions look at these verses 👇
As the old adage has it, you can't kill your men and date them, too. I guess women really can't have it all.
Yes.
Have you tried being wise as serpents and harmless as doves with your Xwitter posts?
Update
Operation Get-the-vine-to-climb-the-heating-duct has officially commenced.
As one professor to another, claiming an individual of high intelligence couldn't pass your class, and for no other reason, apparently, than because of their failure to toe your ideological line, is not the huge win you think it is.
Sociology professor here. You couldn’t pass my Intro course.
This is true. It's kind of sad, isn't it, that a fruit with so much glorious potential would languish in relative obscurity until Italians taught the culinary world what to do with it?
Just remember: Not a single European, much less any Italian, had eaten a tomato until the 16th century.
Trust the Peer Review
Newton's invention of the calculus was wrong, because it was never officially peer reviewed.