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Two Peoples of God?

Dispensationalism has fallen on hard times. What was the dominant eschatological view of twentieth-century Evangelicals, dispensationalism today is overshadowed by the resurgence of postmillennial eschatology and the ever-stalwart amillennial position. This article offers a brief critique of dispensationalism. My remarks about dispensationalism . . . Continue reading →

Posted in by Dan BorvanSeptember 3, 2025

Calvin: What We Need Is The Pastoral Office

For neither the light and heat of the sun, nor any meat and drink, are so necessary to the nourishment and sustenance of the present life, as the apostolical and pastoral office is to the preservation of the Church in the world. . . . Continue reading →

Posted in by Dan BorvanAugust 28, 2025

Diary of a Traveling Pastor: South Africa

Classis Southwest U.S. of the United Reformed Churches of North America (URCNA) was delighted to receive, provisionally, the Reformed Church of the Southern Suburbs (RCSS) of Cape Town, South Africa in March 2023. Continue reading →

Posted in by Dan BorvanOctober 21, 2023

Diary of a Traveling Pastor: EU Reformation

After a great couple of weeks in the UK, I traveled to Bucharest, Romania to visit Mihai Corcea and the Evangelical Reformed Church of Bucharest. Mihai was born in Transylvania, but does not recoil at the sight of a cross. He does, . . . Continue reading →

Posted in by Dan BorvanSeptember 2, 2023

Video: Lessons For Exiles On Main Street—Huguenots As A Christian Minority

Dan Borvan traces a path for Christian life in a post-Christian culture by studying the French Reformed as a suffering church. Continue reading →

Posted in by Dan BorvanAugust 25, 2023

Hart, Borvan, Lee, And Jooste In Conference August 11–12, 2023: Christianity And Liberal Democracy

D. G. Hart, Dan Borvan, Simon Jooste, and Brian Lee in conference! Continue reading →

Posted in by Brian Lee, Dan Borvan, Darryl Hart, Simon JoosteJuly 26, 2023

Diary of a Traveling Pastor: London Calling

This summer, my consistory decided to send me to Europe in order to support our URC missionaries. What began as a short trip to Romania, turned into a four-country European tour. My first two stops: England and Scotland. This was my first . . . Continue reading →

Posted in by Dan BorvanJuly 1, 2023

The Pragmatic Polity of the French Reformed Churches

In continuity with orthodox Christians since the third century, Reformed Protestants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries confessed the centrality of the church: “Outside the church there is no salvation.”1 Despite this lofty view, Reformed churches never reached a common consensus on . . . Continue reading →

Posted in by Dan BorvanAugust 23, 2022

Preach God’s Word, Not That Of The Silly Vassal

Megan Basham caused a stir a few weeks ago with her article exposing the Federal Government’s use of Evangelical influencers to spread COVID talking points. In interviews with multiple Evangelical Thought Leaders, National Institute of Health Director Francis Collins called on pastors . . . Continue reading →

Posted in by Dan BorvanMarch 16, 2022

The Next Big Church Thing

One of the hottest restaurants in my hometown of Chicago is Next. Chef Grant Achatz’s first restaurant, Alinea, has three Michelin stars and is regarded as one of the best restaurants in the world. Achatz wanted his second restaurant, Next, to be . . . Continue reading →

Posted in by Dan BorvanJuly 10, 2014

The Road To Unitarianism (2)

This is the second of a two-part series. In part 1 we considered the origins of Unitarianism. The Unitarian faction within the Congregational church continued to grow in the early nineteenth century. The apex of the internal movement was the 1819 “Baltimore . . . Continue reading →

Posted in by Dan BorvanJuly 3, 2014

The Road To Unitarianism (1)

Earl Morse Wilbur, the foremost historian of Unitarianism, identified the 1531 publication of Michael Servetus’s De Trinitatis Erroribus, which criticized orthodox Trinitarianism, as the start of the movement that developed into contemporary Unitarianism.1 After infiltrating Reformed, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Anglican churches in . . . Continue reading →

Posted in by Dan BorvanJune 30, 2014

Good Will Hunting on Law/Gospel

Good Will Hunting is one of my favorite movies. In a pivotal scene, Robin Williams’s character repeatedly reminds Matt Damon’s character that the abuse he suffered from his foster parent is not his fault. I have not included the clip because the . . . Continue reading →

Posted in by Dan BorvanJune 27, 2014

My Pastor Knows My Name

In the Reformed tradition, pastors and elders typically are required to visit church members in their homes at least once per year. In larger churches, an elder assigned to care for a certain number of families often does the visits. Unfortunately, home . . . Continue reading →

Posted in by Dan BorvanJune 20, 2014