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January 2022

January 13, 2022

What-About-Ism and Other Weak Arguments

There may be fewer richer moments, in our current time, than hearing an evangelical lecture...

December 2021

December 22, 2021

Mary The Pregnant Revolutionary

In St. Luke’s Gospel we read: My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices...

December 10, 2021

The Sufficiency of Scripture Slogan is a Dodge

What do Protestants in general, specifically fundamentalists/evangelicals, mean when they speak of the sufficiency of...

November 2021

November 06, 2021

Evangelicals Should Change Their Name to Religious Neoliberals

For at least the last 10 years or so, the decisions and behaviors of a...

October 2021

October 16, 2021

The Political as Religion

This trend has been long in the making but it was amplified by the advent...

October 01, 2021

Don’t Tell Me You Care About My Soul—When it’s Clear You Don’t Give a Damn About My Body

What do Christian fundamentalists/evangelicals feel is a key distinctive of their tradition or understanding of...

September 2021

September 10, 2021

The Freedom to Harm is Not Freedom—It’s License—It’s Immoral

Many Christians seem to believe in a concept of “freedom” that is more modern, Western,...

August 2021

August 26, 2021

Disciples of Jesus or Ayn Rand and Nietzsche?

I know what you’re thinking. How does something like this happen? Well, how much time...

August 08, 2021

Evangelicals and The Authoritarian Temptation

Although purely anecdotal, I remember witnessing a strange dynamic in my fundamentalist/evangelical days as to...

July 2021

July 25, 2021

Book Review: Jesus and John Wayne

I think I’ve mentioned this book before, but I finally got around to finishing it....

June 2021

June 26, 2021

CRT In Light of Ephesians 6:12

I’m no expert on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and I doubt the reader is either....

June 01, 2021

Evangelicalism: May 15, 1957—January 6, 2021

On May 15, 1957, evangelist Billy Graham preached for the first time at Madison Square...

May 2021

May 19, 2021

No, This World is Our Home

Because I’m a masochist and glutton for punishment, every now and then I peruse The...

May 07, 2021

It’s All Common Grace

If one grew up in especially a Calvinist strain of fundamentalism/evangelicalism, they at some time...

April 2021

April 23, 2021

A Politics of Perpetual Movement

I doubt anyone prefers being literally homeless. Most of us probably don’t like it metaphorically...

April 08, 2021

Covid Vaccines and Exodus 23:1

It’s amazing to me. For some reason, when it comes to the internet and social...

March 2021

March 29, 2021

The Anarchy of Charity

I came across these three words (“anarchy of charity”) while re-reading David Bentley Hart’s seminal...

March 19, 2021

Falun Gong and Evangelicals

Consider the evangelical who has fallen into the GQP, right-wing, conspiracy-minded, Trump worship of the...

March 15, 2021

The End is the Beginning

From here we read: “In contrast, whenever the New Testament speaks of the universality of...

March 06, 2021

Discipleship by Proxy

In regard to our present moment, when it comes to white evangelicalism and the political,...

February 2021

February 18, 2021

Gossip, Rumor and Superstition

What are we to make of these reports: see here and here? What does it...

February 06, 2021

The Privilege of Silence

This post is for those white evangelicals out there who are conflicted. They are politically...

January 2021

January 24, 2021

Postmodernism Wasn’t the Problem

Some conservative evangelicals and other voices are trying to blame the last four years of...

January 14, 2021

Epistemology Via Urban Legends

I don’t remember where I heard or read it, but I do recall the rumor...

January 09, 2021

Frankenstein

What we saw on January 6, 2021 lumbering from the President’s Park South toward the...

December 2020

December 23, 2020

Is the Narrow Door Wide?

Consider Luke 13: 22-30 22 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and...

December 15, 2020

Expository Preaching is as Subjective as Topical Preaching—as is All Preaching

I remember at least one pastor telling me the reason he practiced expository preaching was...

December 03, 2020

More Election Nonsense

Doug Wilson is an odd duck. He’s sort of a cross between Hillbilly Elegy and...

November 2020

November 25, 2020

I Believe in Hell

I do believe in hell. I just don’t believe in hell, the way most Christians,...

November 10, 2020

Postmortem

Well, that was interesting. I realized when listening to passionate Trump supporters and Biden supporters,...