De Regno Christi

Dear Bill, As I prepare for classes tomorrow, I notice that a number of good and interesting things have been written about President Obama’s forthcoming visit to the University of Notre Dame to deliver the main address at this year’s commencement exercises. As someone (at the age of 13) who watched President Ronald Reagan deliver [...]

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A friend of mine gave me a box full of Evelyn Waugh books about a two months ago.  I brought them home, reached deep into the musty box and pulled out Brideshead Revisited.  I had never read the book.  My only previous exposure was the movie poster at the local Borders books. From the opening [...]

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I realize this blog is somewhat expanding beyond the twelve tribes of NAPARC . But I thought this was as good a place as any to draw attention to a recent conference sponsored by the OP Presbytery of Northern California and Nevada on animus imponentis and confessional subscription.  This topic was indirectly raised here before. [...]

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I am chewing on Brad’s canons.  He will forgive me if I try to start referring them as De Regno canons! Here is a question and I am open to answers from all sides-  how do we set the boundaries for a “metaphysical, theological, and poetic” understanding of history? The Reformed Presbyterian Church used to [...]

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Has Lucky Geitner found a pot of gold?  Here is a link to my comments at the Upstate Conservative.

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Dear Bill and the other fine folks at De Regno Christi,   I’m deeply honored to be a part of this group; thank you for the invitation.  I would write more at the moment, but I’m in the middle of central Kansas, typing on my mother’s computer (the only one in the house with an [...]

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While most of Christendom is in the midst of the Lent and are preparing for Easter, I cannot help feeling like I am missing out on something. No, I am not going soft on my Presbyterianism, the regulative principle, ect… but I do find something attractive about the traditional church calendar.  I love the Lord’s [...]

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The DRC has always been an ecumenical enterprise… a slug feast of diverse opinions softened, at times, by shared traditionalist sentiments. Today the ecclesiastical opinions become much more diverse as we introduce Dr. Bradley Birzer, Russell Kirk Professor of American Studies History at Hillsdale College, and author of the excellent The Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth [...]

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