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This past week I spoke at the Wilds Christian Camp and Conference Center Music Conference. I was the keynote speaker for the pre-conference on Monday, I presented one general session, and I taught three workshops.

Several people, both at the Wilds Music Conference and online, have asked for copies of my notes from sessions I [...]

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This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Books Every Conservative (and Liberal) Christian Should Read

It has been called “the second most important book you will ever read.” Whatever rank of importance it may command, there is no doubt that Christianity and Liberalism is a book conservative Christians must read repeatedly. “The purpose of this book,” Machen begins, “is not to decide the religious issue of the present [...]

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UPDATE (5/29/11 6:24a EST): Several people have requested that I include links to the extra hymns in these services; they are linked below.

Next week I am looking forward to participating in what has become an annual gathering of conservative friends. We’ve met for the past four years for mutual encouragement, instruction, [...]

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This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Conservatism Beyond Music

First, the conservative believes that there exists an enduring moral order.

This is the foundational principle of conservatism; as a Christian conservative, I would modify it thus: there is a created, enduring moral order.

The point here is that the conservative is convinced that at least some things in this changeable world are unchanging, and that [...]

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This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Preserving the Truth in our Worship

What I have described in this series is nothing more than historic conservative Christianity—Christianity that aims at conserving God’s truth both doctrinally and aesthetically. It is popular today to speak deridingly about “cultural conservatism” vs. “theological conservatism.” Most evangelicals and increasing numbers of fundamentalists claim that cultural conservatism is at best unnecessary and at worst legalistic. For example, Mark [...]

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Truth and Worship Forms

On February 16, 2011 By
This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Preserving the Truth in our Worship

I have argued to this point that preserving the truth must include not only the preservation of right doctrine, but also the preservation of right imagination. As we have already seen, the imagination is shaped and cultivated through aesthetic forms. We have focused most specifically on literary forms since this is what we find in the Bible, but [...]

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This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Defining Conservatism

Conservative Christianity, at its heart, is committed to preserving transcendent ideas rooted in the very nature and character of God. It seeks to accomplish this goal through the conservative of a tradition that has nurtured the expression of those ideas for ages. If our goal as conservative Christians is to conserve biblical worship and continue to [...]

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