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This position paper argues that the modern idea of “genius” is a revived pagan concept rooted in animism and hero-worship, in which certain individuals are treated as semi-divine figures standing above law, morality, and ordinary humanity. Tracing the idea from ancient Rome through the Renaissance and Enlightenment to modern revolutionary movements, the paper shows how the “genius” shifted from a...

The Carpocratians reshaped Jesus to suit their culture turning Him into a religious genius, rejecting the Old Testament, denying His uniqueness, and redefining justice as radical equality. By accommodating Christ to contemporary philosophy, they created a fictitious “modern” Jesus whose relevance vanished with the culture that produced Him. This impulse is still with us. Whenever Christ is revised...

Rushdoony’s central claim is that culture reveals religion, most clearly through law and education. By these measures, modern society is humanistic, having confined faith to private worship while surrendering public life to the state. In antiquity this was normal: the state was the church. Rulers functioned as divine figures, and there was no separation of church and state. As societies abandon Ch...

Scripture uses the word righteousness to mean justice, revealing that a truly righteous people are those made just by God and committed to doing justice. Jesus blesses those who hunger and thirst for righteousness and those who suffer for it because both pursuits display God’s grace at work. Yet many who demand justice want exemptions for their own sins and judgment only for the sins of others, re...

In this episode of Out of the Question , Andrea Schwartz and Pastor Charles Roberts tackle an issue that quietly corrodes the health of the body of Christ: the failure to act when something isn't right. Drawing from Deuteronomy 22:1–4 and R.J. Rushdoony's exposition on the liability of the bystander in The Institutes of Biblical Law (Eighth Commandment), Andrea and Charles explore how God's law pl...

Proverbs teaches that when people abandon God’s law, they unintentionally praise the wicked they vindicate evil by sharing its contempt for God’s Word. Proverbs 29:18 adds that without God’s revelation, a people become “naked,” stripped of protection and left defenseless before danger and judgment. God’s Word is our only true covering, our armor against sin, folly, and destruction; to cast it asid...

Antinomianism Attacked shows that Jesus’ conflict with the religious leaders centered on their substitution of human tradition for God’s law, a move that He identified not as faithfulness but as lawlessness. By exposing ceremonial washings and practices like Corban as man-made commandments that nullified God’s Word, Jesus declared that only laws planted by the Father have authority, and that both...

There is a world of difference between being alone and being lonely. Solitude can be a gift our Lord Himself sought it out in prayer but loneliness can strike even in a crowded room, when there is no true fellowship or shared purpose. Scripture addresses this ache directly, reminding us that covetousness and restless desire isolate the heart, while contentment and faith anchor us in communion with...

Belief in God is meaningless unless it is belief in God as Creator. Scripture declares that God made all things out of nothing by His sovereign word and for His glory. If the universe is self-existent, God becomes irrelevant; but if God is Creator, He is Lord over all, sustaining, governing, redeeming, and judging His creation. Only the sovereign Creator God is able to give life meaning, answer pr...

In this episode of God’s World, God’s Way , Nathan F. Conkey delivers a strategic briefing for young men navigating the disorientation of the modern age. Drawing from 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 , Conkey argues that we are currently engaged in 5th Generation Warfare —a conflict where the primary battlefield is not physical territory, but the "grey matter between your ears." The episode breaks down how na...

Carpocratianism dressed itself up as Christianity while rejecting God’s law, Scripture’s authority, and Christ’s atonement. Claiming a “higher spirituality,” it taught that faith and love freed people from obedience, turning grace into permission for immorality and elitism. This heresy lives on wherever believers pick and choose God’s Word, spiritualize away His commandments, and call lawlessness...

Hebrews 12 reminds us that God’s chastening is not optional it is the necessary proof that we are His sons and daughters. Though His discipline is often painful and “grievous,” it is the only path to the “peaceable fruit of righteousness,” for our God is a consuming fire who either judges or refines. The question is not whether He burns, but why He burns in our lives. After speaking soberly of thi...

R.J. Rushdoony and Otto Scott examine Romanticism as a cultural and intellectual movement rooted in a departure from a Christian worldview. Emerging after the Enlightenment, Romanticism replaced reason with emotion and imagination, leading to the elevation of individual feeling over moral and societal responsibility. Rushdoony highlights the descent into moral and artistic chaos, from decadent lit...

In Nihilism, Rushdoony traces the destructive power of nihilism as both a philosophy and a pervasive mood that rejects all authority, meaning, and hope, replacing faith with cynicism and a lust for destruction. From pre-revolutionary Russia to the modern West, he shows how nihilism fuels violence, despair, and social collapse, whether directed against church, family, or state, and how even statist...

A three-year-old’s innocent prayer “I thank Thee, Lord, for all my sins!” was quickly corrected, yet her mistake mirrors the attitude of many adults who seem strangely content with their sins and deeply burdened by their duties. While Scripture calls us to confess our sins, most people prefer vague generalities: they will admit to being “a sinner,” but never to specific failures like stinginess to...

In this episode of Preschool Pioneers, Jeremy Walker challenges the modern assumption that education is mainly about learning facts, arguing instead that all education is fundamentally religious and moral because it forms a child’s worldview, loyalties, and character. Drawing from R. J. Rushdoony’s  The Messianic Character of American Education , he explains how government schooling historically a...

Rushdoony’s core claim is that law flows from sovereignty: whoever is lord in a society defines its rule of life. When churches deny God’s law through antinomianism, they effectively confess, “We have no king but Caesar.” The early church refused Rome’s demand to say “Caesar is Lord” and instead confessed Christ’s universal lordship (Phil. 2:9–11). They did not seek change through protests but by...

Jesus Christ claimed eternal divinity and a saving death and proved both by His resurrection. In rising from the dead, He broke the power of sin and transformed death itself. For believers, death is no longer punishment but passage: the final weaning from a broken world into eternal life. The resurrection assures us that our true life is hidden with Christ in God, and that in Him, even death becom...

A child once suggested solving a drought by melting ice cubes a harmless example of folly, yet Scripture shows folly has a far deeper root: “Fools make a mock at sin.” The true mark of foolishness is treating sin lightly, and our age excels at it. Many consider sin outdated, irrelevant, or merely a churchy word, yet sin is nothing less than defiance of God’s law. To take sin lightly is to take God...

A shocking case in New York exposed the failure of justice when a young bank teller was held at knifepoint, her face covered, and raped, yet the judge asked only whether she had seen penetration. When she said no, the criminal was acquitted of first-degree rape and violent robbery, convicted instead of lighter charges of nonviolent robbery and sexual abuse, highlighting a dangerous precedent that...

In Psychopaths, Rushdoony argues that modern society’s replacement of accountability to God with accountability only to man has produced a culture stripped of conscience, absolutes, and moral restraint. By excluding biblical faith and God’s law from public life while legalizing pornography, abortion, and sexual perversion the state has fostered the very conditions that give rise to psychopaths who...

Scientism has led many people to think love can be measured in percentages 20 percent to the job, 20 percent to the spouse, 20 percent to the children but Scripture exposes this as both foolish and morally distorted. God commands us to love Him with all our heart, soul, and might, and Jesus affirms that only by giving God all our love do we gain the capacity to love others rightly. When God has fi...

Fraud, riots, and unthinkable headlines are becoming commonplace. It is easy to dismiss this current state of chaos as just "part of the times," but Episode 377 argues that this collapse is the predictable result when authority ignores its limits. In this pivotal discussion, we examine how the State corrupts the very institutions it claims to save, and why only a return to a foundation built on Go...

Marcionism divides Scripture, rejects God’s law, and pits the Old Testament against the New turning grace into escapism and faith into retreat from the real world. By denying the unity of God’s revelation, it replaces Christ the King with a “spiritual” Christ who rules nothing. Biblical faith is not separation from creation but redemption of it. Grace restores us to obedience, victory, and dominio...

In this wide-ranging Q&A, Rushdoony presses home that modern mental-health theory, medicine, and social policy are increasingly instruments of control rather than healing, whether in Soviet psychiatry, Freudian psychology, or Western technocracy. He contrasts Freud, Jung, and Adler while insisting Freud’s guilt-without-sin framework remains dominant, then applies the same critique to medical e...