Francis Scott Key, the author of “The Star Spangled Banner,” on the duties of the Christian patriot: “The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His word in his greatest darkness ‘a lantern to his feet and […]
Category Archives: Christianity
The First Crusade (1096-1099)
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212 A.D.)
Video Selections from Real Crusades History
[This is an archival repository of content previously published on the home page of Ryan Setliff under the topic Crusades Studies.]
Evangelicalism is too effeminate. Towards a muscular robust faith.
I just stumbled upon this aforementioned series of videos recorded and distributed in 2018. Unfortunately, Dr. Maxwell has went apostate and renounced his faith as of 2021. However, I cannot help but comprehend what it says when he refers to evangelical culture as too apt to produce effeminate and girly beta males. “As for My people, […]
J.I. Packer
This past year on 17 July 2020, Rev. Canon Dr. James (Jim) Innell Packer, the English-born Anglican clergyman that was so influential on my spiritual formation, and indeed my recognition that I am but a desperate sinner in need of grace, has gone home to glory to spend eternity with our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 5:8). […]
The Seminary-Industrial Complex and the Crisis of Value
Originally published on social media 27 September 2017. Saint Andrew’s Chapel is a model church. But is there a model seminary? In North America, the Christian church’s understandable goal of recruiting ministers is complicated by institutional inertia that favors a certain stagnation, inflexible rigidity, and anachronism in how priests, pastors, deacons, and missionaries are trained. […]
Reformation Anglicanism and John Jewel’s Apology of the Church of England
An Apology for the Church of England
Byzantine History and Culture
This blog archive is a memorial to content originally curated on the main Ryan Setliff Online page under the Medievalist section from 2020 through December 18th, 2021:
Russian History
This blog archive is a memorial to content originally curated on the main Ryan Setliff Online page under the Historian section from 2020 through December 15th, 2021: