by devotionalia | Apr 11, 2025 | Christianity, Protestantism, Reformed/Calvinist
Political Idolatry is becoming more common. There’s a viral video making the rounds: a woman paints a portrait of Donald Trump in a public setting while worship music plays, hands are raised, and the atmosphere feels more like a religious revival than a political...
by devotionalia | Apr 8, 2025 | Parables, Protestantism, Reformed/Calvinist
Jesus New Wine Old Wineskins Explained Just as Jesus taught, the fermentation of justice, inclusion, and radical love requires new spiritual vessels. JD Vance’s speech in Munich about the supposed decline and misalignment in European values has been troubling me for a...
by devotionalia | Apr 3, 2025 | Anglicanism, Buddhism, Christianity, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheranism, Protestantism, Reformed/Calvinist, Roman Catholic
We don’t often talk of Christianity and Buddhism in the same breath. One thinks of following Christ and gaining salvation, while the other, the Buddha and enlightenment. One is theistic, the other non-theistic. One teaches us that we have a soul, the other that we...
by devotionalia | Mar 18, 2025 | Anglicanism, Christianity, Lutheranism, Protestantism, Reformed/Calvinist, Roman Catholic
I was sitting in my local coffee shop on Sunday morning and I noticed something curious. One group of smartly-dressed people hurrying their way to church, while everyone around me was lazily sipping their lattes and scrolling on the phones. It struck me that many...
by devotionalia | Mar 4, 2025 | Christianity, Reformed/Calvinist, UK Politics, US Politics
The Rise of Christian Nationalism in the UK: Are We Importing a US-style Religious Right? For years, the idea of a British ‘religious right’ was passively dismissed as a media exaggeration. In 2013, a report by UK-based conservative religious think tank Theos, Is...
by devotionalia | Mar 1, 2025 | Anglicanism, Christianity, Reformed/Calvinist, UK Politics, US Politics
The Separation of Church and State – Differences in the US and the UK. A few years ago on a work trip, my curiosity got the better of me and I found myself in a large, established church in Ohio, where the American flag hung as proudly as the cross (NB, I’m...
