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Also what comes to mind on this topic, is the book Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism by George Marsden. I have skimmed this book and certainly enjoyed the last chapter which covers J Gresham Machen and the fundamentalist/modernist controversy. It's worth clicking the amazon link and reading the blurb about it, and a few reviews. It does Machen justice, given the author was raised OPC
>My OPC Upbringing
>George M. Marsden
>The best man at my parents' wedding on June 25, 1935, was Harold J. Ockenga. Carl McIntire officiated. They and my father, Robert S. Marsden (1905-1960), had left Princeton Theological Seminary with J. Gresham Machen in 1929 to be in the first class at Westminster Theological Seminary. Machen himself had been asked to officiate, but could not, because he had been suspended from the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
>Due to that crisis, his three protégés, then ministers in that denomination, would soon go their separate ways.
Now I'll get to that article you posted haha
Grace and peace.
This thread is well timed, since I'm reading a book right now about the link between Evangelical Christianity and corrupt adoption systems, The Child Catchers by Kathryn Joyce. My husband and I decided a few years ago that we wanted to eventually adopt, but reading this is making me really rethink a lot of my assumptions about how we would go about it (and even rethink the decision to adopt period).
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(edit: https://www.amazon.com/Child-Catchers-Rescue-Trafficking-Adoption/dp/1586489429 it's $3.99 on kindle right now!)
Here, you are on all fours with Marci MacDonald, <em>The Armageddon Factor</em> author Nikiforuk is quoting frequently in OP's piece:
Although Harper remains most comfortable with the worldview of evangelicals, says Marci McDonald, he is probably more of a political opportunist than a true believer.
That club already exists. It's what TST came in to counter. They call it the "Good News Club".
https://www.amazon.com/When-God-Talks-Back-Understanding/dp/0307277275
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
>A bold approach to understanding the American evangelical experience from an anthropological and psychological perspective by one of the country’s most prominent anthropologists.
>Through a series of intimate, illuminating interviews with various members of the Vineyard, an evangelical church with hundreds of congregations across the country, Tanya Luhrmann leaps into the heart of evangelical faith. Combined with scientific research that studies the effect that intensely practiced prayer can have on the mind, When God Talks Back examines how normal, sensible people — from college students to accountants to housewives, all functioning perfectly well within our society — can attest to having the signs and wonders of the supernatural become as quotidian and as ordinary as laundry. Astute, sensitive, and extraordinarily measured in its approach to the interface between science and religion, Luhrmann’s book is sure to generate as much conversation as it will praise.
>What exactly do they need babies for anyway?
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“The Child Catchers takes us for a fast and frightening ride down a road to hell that’s paved with ‘good intentions,’ yes, but also with willful ignorance and worse, outright deception. Joyce’s story—that of a new, religiously driven ‘baby scoop’ that amounts to a massive redistribution of children from the poor to the affluent[.]"
"Conservative evangelicals control much of that industry through an infrastructure of adoption agencies, ministries, political lobbying groups, and publicly-supported "crisis pregnancy centers," which convince women not just to "choose life," but to choose adoption. Overseas, conservative Christians preside over a spiraling boom-bust adoption market in countries where people are poor and regulations weak, and where hefty adoption fees provide lots of incentive to increase the "supply" of adoptable children, recruiting "orphans" from intact but vulnerable families."
https://www.amazon.ca/Child-Catchers-Rescue-Trafficking-Adoption/dp/1586489429
No one is owed a baby. No one is obligated to provide babies. This is such unbelievable entitlement. Also, no one willingly sells their baby. There are 20 million children in poverty while only 13,000 babies are "given up" for adoption every year. This thoroughly demonstrates women are several orders of magnitude prefer to raise children in abject poverty than to have to sell them. Multiple surveys show that of woman who lost children to adoption had the option to keep a baby, they would have. The only reason women "choose" adoption is because they have zero alternatives. That's not "choice." That's coercion. During the Baby Scoop Era of the mid 20th century, hundreds of thousands of white girls and women across Europe, US, Canada and Australia were forced into trafficking their babies. Thousands of girls and women in developing countries are still forced into giving birth and trafficking babies through adoption agencies.
Baby Scoop Era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Scoop_Era#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_Baby_Scoop_Era_was%2Chigher_rate_of_newborn_adoption.?wprov=sfla1
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586489429/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_JEKBQC0KC9PNR38K3YY1
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No one willingly sells their baby. Quit trying to justify weaponizing child poverty to coerce women into human trafficking.
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586489429/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_JEKBQC0KC9PNR38K3YY1
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No one willingly sells their baby. Quit trying to justify weaponizing child poverty to coerce women into human trafficking.
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586489429/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_JEKBQC0KC9PNR38K3YY1
You may be interested in the book The Child Catchers by Kathryn Joyce. When you look at their motivations for adopting it’s kind of no wonder kids are having bad experiences in these homes. And as the book states, the influence of evangelical christians has permeated most corners of adoption in the States.
The evangelical mission is to serve the rich. The rich are the embodiment of the Biblical definition of the world. https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-Heart-American/dp/0060560053?msclkid=90835387bd8c11ecb2d146a5ab961b34
Modern evangelicals have been completely subverted by the apparition appearing to Abram Vereide in 1929. This being claimed to be Jesus Christ and gave him the mission of serving "God's Chosen People" whom he defined as the rich and powerful. With the initial backing of ten millionaires, soon expanding to 26 he founded the Fellowship Foundation, known today as "The Family". https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-Heart-American/dp/0060560053?msclkid=90835387bd8c11ecb2d146a5ab961b34. Everything the televangelists preach when they stand up from their solid gold designer Gucchi commodes is in contradiction to every book in the Bible.
There's a great book on them by Jeff Sharlet. https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-Heart-American/dp/0060560053 The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of ...
Honestly, I read it when it was first published and a) it was absolutely terrifying, and b) explained A LOT (i.e. where that "national prayer breakfast" came from).
Also, I just remembered this book my small group is going through. It does a good job of walking through the basics. https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Doctrine-Essential-Teachings-Christian/dp/0310222338/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=bible+doctrine&qid=1628787357&sr=8-1
Have you seen The Family? The book is better, but the documentary provides a good overview of where this mindset comes from.
This is quite interesting, but I think it overlooks that American Christianity has a very long history of fundamentalist revivals and apocalyptic predictions predating the 1970s. Check out Karen Armstrong's The Battle for God for a really fascinating history.
There is kind of an adoption industrial complex associated with the Evangelicals and the "Pro-Life" movement. It has it's own set of problems. Kathryn Joyce wrote a book about it.
Let me guess they’re part of the Good News Club:
https://www.amazon.com/Good-News-Club-Christian-Americas/dp/1586488430/ref=nodl_
and just read this piece of trash, AKA Reefer Madness 2.0:
You should find exactly out who told this to the kids and ensure they are made to retract those statements and reeducate the assembly in a balanced manner.
What other lies are your kids being fed? Get to the bottom of this. Discuss it with other parents at the school.
Africa and China are also well known for the child trafficking. Many of these kids have parents still alive. They are just poor villagers who are either tricked into "sending their kids to boarding school" or actually stolen. Here is a well researched book on the subject:
https://www.amazon.com/Child-Catchers-Rescue-Trafficking-Adoption/dp/1586489429/
https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/14/china/china-child-trafficking-bust/index.html
Oh, in that case I would check out Bible Doctrine by Wayne Grudem. It's pretty accessible and covers pretty much every area of Systematic Theology.
Read this book:
I do fear them using some "black swan" event for power. An impending war, epidemic, etc.
https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-Heart-American/dp/0060560053
It is true a lot of people are standing against it.
You may have heard of it already, but there's a book about that (sorta).
if you've read the armageddon factor, there's some pretty significant vitriol about the liberals, never mind trudeau, in the world that informs harper.
you're right, picturing harper having to concede to the son of their mortal moral enemy is delicious.
So, thinking along the lines of the book you listed, you're looking for ideas on content to cover, rather than whole books to shove in. It seems then like you're considering a miniature systematic theology covering all the basics of Christianity, coming in around 300 pages, with a decent depth but slightly favoring breadth.
Wayne Grudem published an abridged version of his systematic theology called <em>Bible Doctrine</em>, which comes in about double the desired length. This one has most of the breadth, but too much depth for the "toolkit" approach.
He also published <em>Christian Beliefs</em>, which comes in at about half the targetted length with 20 overall topics. By page count, I would expect this has the depth one would look for, but not the breadth of coverage.
I don't know that such a tool covering about 100 topics in about 2-3pp/ea. exists for reformed Christians. But, were one to be written, I imagine you could get ideas for what you'd want from those two Grudems, from the confessions, and from the catechisms.
Our toolkit could cover:
- Bibliology
- Theology
- Theology Proper
- Christology
- Pneumatology
- Anthropology
- Soteriology
- Ecclesiology
- Eschatology
- Church History
- Apologetics
- Prayer
- Contemporary Issues
Actually, I just looked over at Calvin's Institutes and saw that, all four books together, there are exactly 100 chapters. If you could condense each chapter down to 2-3 pages while adding in more direct information about church history, you'd be well on your way to a good toolkit.
The Family by Jeff Sharlet
http://www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-Heart-American/dp/0060560053/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262397439&sr=8-1
Wil scare your sox off!
I won't claim to know of Christian theocracies, but if you're looking to learn about Christians seeking political power, you ought to read The Family.
>The root of the problem, Weinstein believes, is a cluster of well-funded groups dedicated to Christianizing the military and proselytizing abroad. They include the Navigators, which, according to their website, command "thousands of courageous men and women passionately following Christ, representing Him in advancing the Gospel through relationships where they live, work, train for war, and deploy."
When I was in college I was in the Navigators. The founder, Dawson Trotmon, was in the Navy. He was good friends with Billy Graham and died trying to save someone who was drowning. Daws started his ministry in the military and still has many members of the Navs serving there. His campus outreach program has converted many folks over the years.
When I read The Family earlier this year, a lot of what Jeff Sharlet wrote about were things I had heard and/or learned during my time with the Navs.
Looks like they've spent some time reading "Christianity Without God" by Lloyd Geering - the last presbyterian to be tried and convicted of heresy in the world.
http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-without-God-Lloyd-Geering/dp/0944344925