John B. Carpenter

CP Guest Contributor

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.

A Never Trumper endorses the president

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.

How a secular Jew proved Christians ended slavery

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.

Rise of the social justice contras

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.

The Social Justice Statement and the Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience

The True Origins of Thanksgiving

Tomorrow we celebrate what I sincerely regard as one of our most Christian holidays: Thanksgiving. The Puritans were a group of zealous, committed Christians who sought to make the church what the Bible said it should be; and they gave us Thanksgiving.

The True Origins of Thanksgiving

Recovering From Strange and Friendly Fire

I thought it was a bad idea: a conference hosted by one group of Christians to explain how bad another group of Christians is. But the rationale was that since the troubled group wasn't correcting their own troubles, someone had to do the dirty work. Hence was hatched John MacArthur's "Strange Fire" conference.