Cornerstone Baptist Church Clinton SC

08/21/2026

08/17/2026

David Closson: “In short, an unborn child can now legally be killed in one of the dozens of abortion facilities throughout Massachusetts, for any reason, and at any point in the pregnancy. The statutory language is clear that there are no gestational limitations, or any limits whatsoever, on abortion. As the law plainly states, ‘An abortion may be performed by a physician based upon the professional judgment of the physician.’ In other words, if it is the ‘professional judgment’ of the profit-motivated abortionist, a baby who is mere hours away from being born can be legally dismembered.”

David Closson | A radical new law removes all protections for unborn children and all oversight of abortion facilities

08/12/2026

Lucas Stamps: “What young men need is strength directed by love and the pursuit of excellence guided by humility. Churches should be places where true biblical masculinity is fostered and celebrated, not diminished or distorted. Churches should be schools of virtue—believing communities where young men are habituated to Christlikeness, aided by godly friends, and guided by seasoned mentors.

“Young men have a hunger for meaning. If we don’t feed them, someone else will.”

R. Lucas Stamps | What young men need from the Church—lest they turn to paganism

08/06/2026

Carl Trueman: "To paraphrase Paglia’s conclusion from 1990: Be Christian or go away. More 'lite' Presbyterianism is a tedious irrelevance."

Carl R. Trueman | A PCUSA study on pastoral monogamy has all the markings of the denomination’s long slide into irrelevance

08/01/2026

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07/30/2026

"C.S. Lewis’ 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 continues to strike a nerve—especially with Millennials and Gen Z. These generations, immersed in questions of identity, meaning and authenticity, are also more digitally distracted than any in history. That contrast—between spiritual hunger and technological noise—makes Lewis’ wartime satire feel oddly prophetic.

"Though first published in 1942, the book feels tailored for today. Its brilliance lies not in predicting the future but in exposing timeless spiritual truths. The packaging of temptation may change—scrolls instead of ci******es, curated posts instead of polished piety—but the strategy remains the same: keep the soul from God not through overt evil but through endless distraction.

"One of Lewis’ sharpest insights is that the devil rarely invents new sins; he simply repurposes old ones with modern tools. There’s no need to create fresh temptations for the digital age—just hand us our phones and let TikTok loops, envy-laced Instagram filters and YouTube Shorts do the work. These platforms turn habit into addiction, presence into performance.

"In Letter XXII, Screwtape rants against music and silence—'How I detest them both!'—because they lead the soul inward or upward. He praises noise as 'the audible expression of all that is exultant, ruthless and virile,' and vows to fill the universe with it. Today’s noise isn’t always loud, but it is relentless: podcasts, reels, playlists and ambient notifications crowd out the still, small voice that might be speaking to us.

"As Screwtape writes with chilling prescience: 'It’s funny how these humans picture us as putting things into their minds. Our best work is done by keeping things out.'

"This is where the digital world excels. Push notifications, autoplay and infinite feeds have transformed our tools into temples of distraction. According to Digital Information World, the average American now spends over seven hours a day in front of a screen; for Gen Z, it’s closer to nine. Screwtape wouldn’t need to invent a thing. The safest road to hell is now algorithmically optimized.

"Lewis understood that spiritual ruin does not begin in rebellion, but in drift—in the slow erosion of attention, the dulling of desire. In the end, the soul doesn’t need to reject God; it only needs to forget He is there.

"In 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘦, Lewis portrays the Christian life not as calm or convenient, but as a battleground. He came to faith in his early 30s, after years of resistance. He knew how deeply truth unsettles before it sets free. The real war begins after conversion. As Screwtape writes: 'All the habits of the patient—the attitudes, the beliefs, the emotions—are still in our favor.'

"Lewis didn’t write 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘸𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 to amuse. He wrote to wake us up—before we drift too far. And in an age where attention is under siege, his warning feels prophetic.

"Lewis doesn’t urge us to reject technology, but to reclaim our attention—to notice how our habits shape us, and whether they’re drawing us closer to Christ or quietly away."

When was the last time you sat in silence without reaching for a screen? Screwtape hopes you never ask. Which is precisely why you should.

Producing theatre from a Christian worldview.

07/24/2026

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07/16/2026

Child mutilation endorsed by major denomination
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Nathaniel Blake:

We’re gonna need more millstones.

The Presbyterian Church (USA) has now endorsed child mutilation, and it’s done so by official action. Given mainline Protestantism’s surrender to moral revolution, no one should have expected anything else from the liberal branch of American Presbyterianism. Like the rest of the old mainline, the PCUSA is in terminal decline, but it’s not quite dead yet—it lives on as the spiritual equivalent of a decrepit Hugh Heffner, always looking for one more o**y as the Pl***oy mansion crumbled around him.

The PCUSA’s aging congregants are also obsessed with s*xual liberation, though in their case it often seems more ideological than personal. Regardless, the denomination has acceded to all the s*xual revolution’s demands, as illustrated by James Talarico, PCUSA seminarian and Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, who proclaims God to be an enthusiast for abortion, so**my, and gender transition.

The secret to this, of course, is that Talarico, and his denomination, do not really believe in God—at least the God of the Bible. And they exemplify the adage that when men stop believing in God, it is not that they believe in nothing but that they’ll believe in anything. In this case they believe that men can become (or in some mystical sense, already are) women, that children can be born into a body of the wrong s*x, and that the solution is to chemically and surgically remake people into facsimiles of the other s*x.

The PCUSA regularly gives those of us in other Presbyterian denominations the frustrating task of explaining that we’re the sort of Presbyterians who still believe in God, Scripture, and the reality of male and female as revealed by both biology and the Bible. The labels may be hard to follow without a scorecard—for instance, the Presbyterian Church in America vs the Presbyterian Church (USA)—but the spiritual and practical contrast is clear.

The PCUSA embrace of medical malpractice is rooted in a metaphysical madness. Only someone with a dreadfully darkened understanding of God, man, and nature would claim to turn a boy into a girl by chemically castrating him, or a girl into a boy by amputating her breasts and pumping her full of testosterone.

To justify such evils in the name of Jesus is blasphemy, rooted in revolt against the God-given order of our existence. This is the evil fruit of the s*xual revolution, which has progressively rejected the normativity of creation. What was initially a loosening of Christian norms regarding the s*xual union of men and women has become a denial of the very reality of men and women.

This is because the worst of the s*xual revolution is not s*xual temptation and sin, which have always been with us, but the moral and anthropological lies that excuse them. The attempt to justify sin only further darkens our understanding and actions. The s*xual revolution put desire at the core of identity—we are authentically ourselves, liberated, and fulfilled when we are free to pursue our desires, especially our s*xual desires.

This is the opposite of what Christ, the apostles (and in their own way even some pagan philosophers such as Plato) taught. In our fallen state our desires are unruly, irrational, and unrealistic. We often want that which is harmful or even impossible. Being defined and ruled by desire is not liberating, but enslaving, a bo***ge to sin.

And sin’s tyranny is not confined to our own psyches and souls but overflows the boundaries of self to harm others. We are contingent and finite, incapable of remaking ourselves, let alone the world, in conformity with our desires and impulses. But our creaturely limits do not stop us from trying, nor keep us from compelling others to play along: use the pronouns; bake the cake. pretend that the petite actress best known for playing a pregnant teenager is now a man.

Ultimately, the PCUSA’s endorsement of gender ideology is nothing less than rebellion against the God in whom they no longer really believe. It is a revolt against the Creator and the creation order established for us. It is a rejection of Christ’s salvific work as the divine answer to the brokenness of sin, substituting human willfulness for redemption through Jesus. It is a denial of the sanctification of the Holy Spirit, replacing conformity to Christ with the pride of self-creation.

Instead of the Christian understanding of divine creation, human sin, and divine restoration, there is the futile and damaging effort at human self-redemption. This is presented as self-creating, but it is nothing but further mutilation, a spiritual sickness made manifest by its practical results of mutilating children, destroying their healthy bodies in pursuit of an impossible lie.

Jesus had harsh warnings for those who lead children into such evils. Something about millstones.

Nathanael Blake | The Presbyterian Church (USA) takes another big step down the path of destruction, and this time it’s officially taking children along…

07/16/2026

Carl Trueman: Is Western imperialism alive and well? It would seem so. Turkey and Egypt recently refused to allow a cruise ship to dock in their ports. The reason? The ship, the Scarlet Lady, is part of Atlantis Cruises, a company that offers vacations as an “incredibly all-gay experience.” In short, it was carrying wealthy gay men around the Mediterranean for a mix of parties and sight-seeing. And neither Turkey nor Egypt wanted to enable such.

Homos*xuality is legal in both countries, but, of course, legality does not mean that any foreigner has the right to come and flaunt their s*xual proclivities. If the website of Atlantis Cruises is representative of its ethos, that is exactly what its customers do. And they clearly expect other nations, other cultures, to indulge them as they do so.

This is where the question of Western imperialism becomes newly interesting. We are all familiar with the usual complaints surrounding the topic—how white Europeans and Americans assumed the normativity and superiority of their cultural systems and imposed them without consent upon great swathes of the globe, with no concern for local customs and morality. Polemics against this, and the anathematizing of anyone who dares even to suggest that the standard narrative of Western oppression is perhaps a tad unnuanced, has been a staple of progressivism in the United States and Europe for many years.

But if we look at the most distinctive aspects of Western culture over the last century, it is surely those that are collectively known as the s*xual revolution: the overturning of old moral taboos, the dismantling of institutions such as marriage and the family in the name of individual s*xual liberation, the tolerance and then full affirmation of homos*xuality, and the push for the marginalization of any voices that seek to disagree with the new orthodoxies.

In this light, there are surely few things more distinctively belonging to the West (as opposed to the Rest) than a cruise ship full of gay men with enough disposable income to party around the Mediterranean in ways that are inconsistent with the moral cultures of the countries to which they expect access. And if that is not today’s version of Western imperialism, it is hard to know what else might qualify. And the bemused reaction of Rich Campbell, the Atlantis CEO, is fit to stand alongside any statement from a pith-helmeted British army officer from the days of the Raj. He clearly cannot comprehend why anyone would think differently on the relevant issues to himself and his clients. Western gay culture is normative, so to reject that is to make oneself a remnant from the dark ages or moral and cultural ignorance. It’s that simple.

The whole debacle is reminiscent of a comment made about American feminists by the Nobel laureate, Doris Lessing, in an interview with The New York Times in 1994:

[Lessing] recalls a “very dramatic little scene” during one of her visits back to Zimbabwe after 25 years of banishment as a “prohibited immigrant” for her criticism of apartheid: “There were a couple of American feminists, expertly dressed, lecturing a bunch of women who were raising kids on a level of about $70 to $80 a month in American money, about their s*x lives, how to raise their children, how to treat their husbands.” The feminists struck her as latter-day ideological imperialists, liberated most of all, she says, from “a sense of the ridiculous.”

Latter-day cultural imperialists are everywhere these days. This Scarlet Lady cruise represents the imperialism of Western hedonism in a blatant form. And the confusion of its CEO (and presumably many of those on board) at Turkey and Egypt’s acts of resistance to that imperialism, indicate that these men are indeed liberated—though perhaps not merely from a sense of the ridiculous but also from any degree of self-awareness and respect for others who differ.

Carl R. Trueman | Passengers on a gay cruise ship try and fail to spread Western hedonism in Turkey and Egypt