Paul Swanson 👑

I’m pleased to announce that @canonpress will be publishing my forthcoming book, A Fire Still Ablaze: The Holy Spirit and the Reformed Tradition. I write as a committed cessationist who holds firmly to the sufficiency and final authority of Scripture, but my argument is that our Reformed forefathers allowed more room for supernatural oddities & surprises than many cessationists today. Our reaction to charismatic excess plus enlightenment and materialistic thinking has carried us beyond the boundaries that our own tradition maintained, leading to a newer version, or hyper-cessationism. The book includes some pretty astonishing primary-source material from the tradition, which is hardly (if ever) discussed by modern cessationists. It has now entered the copy-editing & formatting stage. Look for it June 2027, with pre-orders in the spring, D.V.

Everyone just calm down

Homeschooling should be illegal. “But I teach my kids better than the state!” Doesn’t matter, the primary purpose of elementary/middle school isn’t to teach it’s to socialize your kid. You can’t do that alone. And this isn’t even mentioning how it can be used to abuse kids