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Why Is Your Soul Distressed? Then, A Bit More with Calvin

James White, June 12, 2025, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Godly Disciplines, Musings, Pastoral Theology, Post-Evangelicalism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism, Transinsanity

Decided I needed a break from the battle so as to remember the foundational stuff—we can get back to the rest next week, Lord willing. Looked at a few Psalms and just considered what is eternal and important–and will be important next week, next month, and 100 years from now–rather than what grabs our attention and often steals our joy

That Weird Pointy Hat Procession, then, Stephen Wolfe’s Smarter Worldview

James White, February 4, 2025, Christian Worldview, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, General Apologetics, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Went for a jumbo edition today in the big studio with the big board! Commented briefly about the Roman Catholic penitential procession video that made the rounds a few days ago, then we looked at Stephen Wolfe’s lengthy tweet about the term “worldview” and how we would be better off abandoning it. Hardly surprising, but I disagreed!

The Post War Consensus then Gold from the Prophet Jeremiah

James White, January 24, 2025, Christian Worldview, Misc, Mormonism, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

I was said to be part of the “PWC crowd” in a statement this morning by a young social media type guy, so we looked at what the PWC is, a bit about R.R. Reno, stuff like that, then switched over to Jeremiah chapter ten and some great jewels provided in God’s glorious Scriptures.

End of Year Catch Up on Developments in the “Trashworld” Controversy

James White, December 30, 2024, Christian Worldview, Debate, Misc, Offense, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, Technology, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

The addition of Catholic speaker Calvin Robinson to the line up at the the Defeating Trashworld Conference in April has stirred up a lot of controversy, and properly so. Stephen Wolfe chimed in today with a tweet about his viewpoint on issues, so we really had to take some time to consider where this is all going, and what it

Mockery is not a Christian Virtue, then, the Carson/Huff Discussion

James White, December 12, 2024, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Church History, Debate, General Apologetics, Godly Disciplines, Islam, Personal, Road Trip, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Last Road Trip DL for 2024 coming from Holbrook, Arizona this evening. Started off looking at Joel Webbon’s defense both of “anons” and using them to mock people “right off X,” naming Owen Strachan as an example. Then we discussed the encounter between Wes Huff, a Christian scholar and apologist, and Billy Carson, an Internet “influencer” of some kind, and

Welby, Lawson, and Christian Unity

James White, November 19, 2024, Christian Worldview, Musings, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism, Transinsanity

Got an early program in (head out over the weekend again, so, time is short!). Discussed the Archbishop Welby resignation, new developments in the Steve Lawson saga, and then looked at statements from folks who are continuing to battle against a biblical view of Christian unity and of the nature of Christ’s Kingdom. Uncertain about whether we will find a

The Wisdom of the World, Then Two Important LDS Issues

James White, September 10, 2024, Christian Worldview, Debate, General Apologetics, Mormonism, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Did an early show today (but still had a large live audience for some reason!) and mainly covered two topics: first, a blog article Phil Johnson wrote 15 years ago that Stephen Wolfe identified as “moronic,” and then two LDS topics that illustrate just how much the Mormon Church has changed over the past forty years. Enjoy!

A Slightly Abbreviated DL Today: So How DO You Define the Reformation?

James White, September 3, 2024, Debate, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

I explained at the start of the program that things had developed that required me to shorten the program and rush off a bit…to get my new (first time) hearing aids! Wow, did you know that the keys on a keyboard make little clicky sounds when you press on them? Who knew? I was pretty surprised they could do it

Road Trip DL from Santa Fe

James White, July 23, 2024, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Started off with all the amazing developments since just last week in Western culture and in the US elections. Addressed the theory that the entire NT was originally written in Hebrew. Then started taking some great Twitter questions once again on a variety of topics. Headed to Colorado Springs tomorrow, should be doing another program on Thursday.

Twitter-Driven DL from Dolores, Colorado

James White, July 19, 2024, Ken Wilson, Misc, Mormonism, Open Phones, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Thomism, Uncategorized

I am thankful that Twitter was not taken down by today’s huge IT crash/failure, since we took our questions from our audience, and they were great questions! We will definitely have to do it this way in the future when I am traveling (much less technically challenging than trying to take calls when I am remote). Covered a wide variety

Provisionist Palaver, Trent Horn on Argumentation, A Few Moments with Carl Trueman and Doctrinal Development

James White, February 1, 2024, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Ken Wilson, Molinism, Open Theism, Personal, Provisionism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

My apologies for all the coughs and sniffs, I actually feel pretty good, but the voice and sinuses—not so much. Spent time talking about God’s decree over against Provisionist palaver (look it up), then looked at some Trent Horn material in preparation for a few weeks from now, and finished up with a real quick section from the Carl Trueman

A Little Bit on Infants, a Little Bit on Alistair, the Rest with More Carl Trueman

James White, January 30, 2024, Church History, Post-Evangelicalism, The Dividing Line, Thomism, Transinsanity

Covered a number of topics today with a short discussion of how a small number of ne’er-do-wells can create faux controversies for not positive reason, then talked a bit about Alistair Begg’s “swing and a miss” response, and then got back to Carl Trueman’s speech on classical theology. An hour and fifteen minutes today.

Lots of Short Topics, Andrew Fuller and the Reality of Death, then Back to Carl Trueman

James White, January 24, 2024, Christian Worldview, Church History, Godly Disciplines, Homosexuality, Musings, Open Theism, Pastoral Theology, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism, Transinsanity

Touched on a bunch of topics from Texas to Alistair Begg to the United Methodists at the start. Commented briefly on some miserable souls on line who want to debate about infant damnation. Then read from Nettle’s fine work on Andrew Fuller and the reality of death and how it impacts us and our theological outlook, before moving briefly back

Dr. Carl Trueman’s Inaugural Address at the Center for Classical Theology

James White, January 24, 2024, Church Fathers, Church History, Open Theism, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Started to listen to and interact with Dr. Carl Trueman’s inaugural address at the Center for Classical Theology. Got into the heart of the matter, Scripture, tradition, authority, etc., after playing a number of statements that were insightful, useful, and edifying. Will continue on Thursday! You can listen to the lecture here.

Kenoticism Examined

James White, January 11, 2024, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Exegesis, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism, Unitarianism

After some chatter about DEI’s destruction of the United States (and the West in general), we finally dug into a Twitter thread posted by Dr. Mike Riccardi on kenoticism and what it is supposed to mean and how we are supposed to identify it. Ended up going 90 minutes as a result, but this one will be discussed for a

The Revealed God with Jeffrey Johnson; Stephen Wolfe’s 2024 Resolutions

James White, January 4, 2024, Church History, Open Theism, Pastoral Theology, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Spent an hour and 15 minutes with Dr. Jeffery Johnson, President of GBTS, talking about his new book, The Revealed God (2023). Then I responded to a tweet storm from Stephen Wolfe just this morning and talked a bit about what it means to be “truly Reformed.” An hour and 45 minutes.

The Aquinification of MBTS, Philosophical Trinitarianism, Responses to Soteriology 101

James White, January 2, 2024, Church Fathers, Church History, Pastoral Theology, Personal, Provisionism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Well, 2024 started out a bit rough technically speaking, but we got past that and got to a discussion of Aquinas at MBTS, Dale Tuggy and philosophical trinitarianism, and finally responses to Leighton Flowers on the will of God and the proclamation of the gospel. Ninety minutes.

Rutgers’ Racist Professor, More Muhammed Hijab, and the Neo-Socinian Nonsense Again

James White, December 14, 2023, Debate, Islam, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Back in Phoenix in our regular studio, so we looked briefly at the racist Rutgers professor and “white folks,” then we spent about twenty minutes responding to more of Muhammed Hijab’s opening statement against the Trinity, and then listened to a few minutes of the “Coffee House Sessions” webcast on the modern state of Reformed Baptist and Robert Briggs’ accusation

Our New Dividing Line Search Engine and More

James White, July 21, 2023, Eschatology, Homosexuality, Road Trip, Technology, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism, Unitarianism

Had a few technical issues today to be sure, but we soldiered on, looking at our new search engine which allows you to look for words and phrases in ALL of the Dividing Lines since 1998! Twenty five years worth (over 2,000 episodes). Pretty amazing stuff. Then we looked at a few comments from ol’ Steve Camp, a few more

Jumbo Road Trip Edition on Twitter!

James White, July 19, 2023, Church History, Debate, Eschatology, Exegesis, Post-Evangelicalism, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Thomism

So Rich was literally just poking around on Twitter when he stumbled across the “live” set up recently, so today was our first day to live-cast on Twitter. That was what we wanted to do all along, but obviously things are developing at Twitter and so we had to use Facebook (which drove me nuts). But, for as long as

A Nearly Two Hour Road Trip Dividing Line

James White, July 4, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Eastern Orthodoxy, Exegesis, Post-Evangelicalism, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Thomism, Transinsanity, Unitarianism

Three major portions of today’s almost two hour program: first, reflections on the celebration of July 4th immediately after the Month of Prideful Rebellion. . Then, we review key statements made by Matthew Barrett, Todd Pruitt, and Carl Trueman on the last

Road Trip Dividing Line: It Wasn’t Broke, We Fixed It Anyway

James White, May 18, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Homosexuality, Personal, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Ok, so its a bit herky jerky at the start but it clears up after about 20 minutes. – Rich So I was a bit worried when Rich said he was going to do something different–and this time I was right. The first part of the program is, well, sadly, not overly useful. I talked with Pastor Derrick Melton about

More Attempts at Sneaking Man’s Autonomy into Scripture

James White, May 10, 2023, Pauline Studies, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, Road Trip, The Dividing Line, Thomism

After a brief review of a further comment by Stephen Wolfe (that I missed on the last show), we went back to Ephesians 1 after listening to a monologue by Leighton Flowers seeking to establish synergism by…assuming it! Brought Accordance in once again and dove into the text. Had one little interruption (the kind lady who runs the RV park,

Road Trip Dividing Line From Conway, Arkansas

James White, May 9, 2023, Christian Worldview, Eschatology, Pastoral Theology, Personal, Road Trip, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

I am at GBTS in Conway and we managed (despite some challenges!) to get a full DL in today! Caught up with a lot that has happened over the past week or so on a number of topics. Hope the discussion is useful and helpful in the midst of all the fog being produced today. We will go for another

A Dividing Line I Cannot Summarize!

James White, April 20, 2023, Abortion, Christian Worldview, Eschatology, Homosexuality, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

We have a guy at Apologia who posts hilarious out-of-context quotes from the sermon on our member’s page. I need someone like that to listen to every Dividing Line and come up with a brief, yet usable, title, because with programs like today, I just have no idea. We covered the Washington State law that would allow the state to

Secularism’s Insanity, then Credo’s Promotion of Scholasticism

James White, April 13, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church History, Homosexuality, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Tale of two programs today as for the first half hour we considered the daily onslaught of secularism’s acidic destruction of Western society and life itself, and then switched gears to consider the newest edition of Credo Magazine and its full-throated promotion of, and defense of, “Reformed Scholasticism.”

Mega-Size DL Response to Mike Riccardi and Derrick Brite

James White, April 11, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Exegesis, Personal, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

We went for two hours today as I interacted with portions of the first thirty minutes of Dr. Mike Riccardi’s presentation at the Shepherd’s Conference on the Trinity. Many had concluded that I was the target of much of the opening comments in that presentation, so I felt it proper to interact with it and raise the key issues that

Responding to Rome Including a Review of Indulgentiarum Doctrina

James White, March 27, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Homosexuality, Mormonism, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, Speaking Engagements, The Dividing Line, Thomism, Uncategorized

Took a few minutes to look at the new Obscurity of Scripture book and its two references to me, which led to a discussion of Jason Stellman, and then on to the document Indulgentiarum Doctrina. Finished up the program with a warning about legislation being introduced in California, Washington, and Minnesota, giving the State the power to take away your

Lots of Topics on the DL Today

James White, March 23, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Debate, Musings, Personal, Provisionism, Racialism, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Had a lot of mini issues to discuss at the top, then looked at an example of horrible racism, then discussed Derek Webb’s comments on a video posted by Leighton Flowers, then looked at the language used by Credo Magazine in self-defining “orthodoxy.” ADDENDUM: I forgot to add the information for ordering that wonderful tomb-scene wooden artwork I showed on

J.E. Smith and the Action of the Son in Philippians 2

James White, March 21, 2023, Exegesis, Pastoral Theology, Pauline Studies, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

The entire program today in the big studio was to deal with the action of the divine Son in considering the equality He had with His Father and concluding that His equality was not to be held onto at all costs but, rather, that He would enter into human existence in the incarnation. We walk through the text on the

A Multi-Faceted Dividing Line

James White, March 16, 2023, Abortion, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Exegesis, Homosexuality, Pastoral Theology, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Covered a wide variety of things yet again on the program today, so a little something for everyone. Started off with the new Roman Catholic apologetics book against Scripture titled, “The Obscurity of Scripture,” and talked a bit about the obscurity not of Scripture, but of Rome itself. We also spent some time reading through Schaff’s discussion of Pope Honorius.

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