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April 2025

April 06, 2025

How Evangelicals Got “Counter-Culture” All Wrong

On Being Counter-Cultural Growing up in the evangelical/Southern Baptist world, which was mostly fundamentalist then,...

February 2025

February 04, 2025

Speaking Truth to Power: Budde and Trump

Anglican theologian and New Testament scholar N.T. Wright notes this fact: "By the end of...

December 2024

December 14, 2024

The Late Great Hal Lindsey

If you grew up in the evangelical/fundamentalist world of the 70s, 80s, or 90s, and...

October 2024

October 29, 2024

Trumpism, MAGA, is a Revived Paganism

The upcoming election is not primarily a choice between a democrat and a republican, a...

September 2024

September 09, 2024

Trump Cheats on the Pro-Life Movement

This just in—read all about it: Notorious con-man, person of questionable character, honesty, ethics, and...

July 2024

July 20, 2024

Providence for Me but Not for Thee

Since the attempted assassination of former President Trump, there has been much talk of God’s...

July 07, 2024

Evangelicals’ King: Why Trump Still Reigns

In the book of 1 Samuel, chapter 8, we read of Israel’s cry for a...

May 2024

May 25, 2024

Cruelty is the Point

Unless one has been living under a rock (a mercy for sure right now), they...

January 2024

January 14, 2024

Christian Nationalism Creates the Need for the Secular

I have two primary conceptions of the secular in the sense of a space. First,...

November 2023

November 18, 2023

Evangelicals and Barabbas: Who Will They Choose?

We knew Trump had an authoritarian bent when he first ran for the presidency and...

September 2023

September 04, 2023

More Bad News for Religious Leaders

Not only are religious leaders/pastors/theologians learning they are losing members, especially young people, along comes...

July 2023

July 19, 2023

Does the Movie “Sound of Freedom” Confirm or Bolster QAnon Beliefs?

Is the currently released movie Sound of Freedom based on a true story? Yes. Is...

April 2023

April 17, 2023

Some of the Best Christians I have Known were Atheists

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love...

March 2023

March 29, 2023

White Evangelicals as Scarlett O’Hara

We are coming to the end of March, which happens to be Oscar month. For...

February 2023

February 07, 2023

Pluralism For Me but Not For Thee

The next bogeyman the leaders of the white fundamentalist-evangelical world are ready to foist upon...

December 2022

December 19, 2022

Who Would Jesus Serve?

When I read stories like this one, it leads me as a Christian to this...

November 2022

November 08, 2022

Evangelical Pastors: It’s Cute You Think You’re Disciplining Your People

I want to speak to a certain type of evangelical pastor. This pastor spends a...

September 2022

September 16, 2022

Choosing a Path and Answering the Call

There are times when it is prudent and wise to say things like, “Yes, I...

August 2022

August 24, 2022

Do Evangelicals Hate America?

Correct, that title was mostly to get your attention. Yes, hate is a strong word...

July 2022

July 17, 2022

Should Christians Listen to Secular Music?

Absolutely they should. I suspect some of you, to that answer, may be thinking or...

July 09, 2022

Abortion Ruling Headline: “Dog Catches Car”

I’m reluctant to comment on the recent Supreme Court ruling, wherein both Roe and Casey...

June 2022

June 26, 2022

What Tom Ascol Really Means

As I’ve stated before, I was raised up in Southern Baptist churches, the convention (SBC),...

June 16, 2022

Radicalized Funda-gelicals = January 6th Insurrection

On February 17, 2015, three teen-age girls made their way through Gatwick Airport in London...

June 04, 2022

Appearances Can Be Deceiving

I came across the following social media meme, you know, those pithy comments or reflections...

May 2022

May 26, 2022

The Chickens Come Home

Anyone aware of my personal story knows that before leaving the fundamentalist/evangelical world, I was...

May 10, 2022

Doug Wilson Prefers Cheap Wall Paper

At the top of her fame, Roseanne Barr once infamously remarked that she was America’s...

March 2022

March 30, 2022

Finding Your Feet After Fundamentalism

What do you do in a pandemic? You write a book. A compilation really. If...

March 23, 2022

If The Bible Didn’t Exist—Would Jesus?

If the Bible didn’t exist as we know it, would Jesus cease to exist? I...

March 07, 2022

Lent, Evangelicals, Putin, and Supping with the Devil

The Eastern Orthodox began this last Sunday what they call the season of Great Lent,...

February 2022

February 15, 2022

Deconstruction Isn’t a Fad—It’s Part of the Christian Journey

The current evangelical-fundamentalist hysterics over deconstruction is disappointing but hardly surprising. Like Critical Race Theory...