John B. Carpenter

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  May 13, 2025

  Why did Trinity Evangelical Divinity School fail?

  TEDS tried to be all things to all people and, in the end, became nothing. This should teach us all a lesson for the future.

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  Feb 23, 2025

  Is regenerate church membership a common Christian doctrine?

  Regenerate church membership was a universal Christian doctrine. Ironically, the people today who promote it the most don’t know that.

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  Jun 19, 2023

  7 Christian men or movements who helped end slavery in America

  Here’s seven Christian individuals or movements that led to the end of slavery in America.

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  Nov 17, 2022

  4 reasons why Christians should refuse to support Donald Trump's candidacy

  Trump’s gambit of being “strong,” and fighting “like hell” was always a no-win proposition. But he led his troops into that losing battle and Ashli Babbit was literally killed.

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  Sep 10, 2020

  Establishment Evangelicals children’s crusade against Trump

  The whole argument that Trump is unfit for office because his rhetoric sometimes isn’t polite is an idea more rooted in the country clubs of established gentlemen than in what is really needed in a leader.

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  Jul 15, 2020

  A Never Trumper endorses the president

  I rejected the “Flight 93 election” rhetoric in 2016 people used to force me to choose him as the “lesser of two evils.” I no longer reject it.

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  Apr 25, 2019

  How a secular Jew proved Christians ended slavery

  In the debate over social justice and reparations, many claims are being made about slavery. Christians are now debating about how complicit earlier Christians were in slavery.

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  Mar 12, 2019

  Rise of the social justice contras

  On March 6, 2019 a tempest in a conference tea cup broke out at John MacArthur’s popular Shepherd’s Conference (“ShepCon”). The buzz hasn’t died down yet.

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  Dec 9, 2018

  Scholar responds to Eastern Orthodox apologists

  Has Eastern Orthodoxy been drawing many evangelicals into its fold? What is it about Eastern Orthodoxy that draws many evangelicals?

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  Oct 6, 2018

  The Social Justice Statement and the Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience

  John MacArthur and other evangelical leaders issued a statement on "Social Justice and the Gospel." I reached the end and wondered where the rest was, the part where we grieve with those who grieve, where Christians show they're not just about right doctrines but also about right passions and right behavior.