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October 2019

October 26, 2019

Poor Analysis—False Equivalence—Bad Outcome

I’m all for tolerance and civility.  Amen brothers.  However, I’m also for logic, nuance, and...

October 12, 2019

Dead Man Walking

A further thought: I wonder if these types of trends are accelerating due to what...

September 2019

September 24, 2019

Is This Really About the Sufficiency of Scripture?

According to this article, we are supposedly going to learn “why” this “spat” is “actually”...

August 2019

August 13, 2019

The Unbearable Lightness of Evangelical Triggers

I’ve written before of how evangelicals get upset over the wrong things.  And new examples...

August 03, 2019

The Way We Still Are

If one is a white male, it can be very difficult to understand white privilege...

July 2019

July 16, 2019

Elusive Indeed

I don't know Mark Galli, but I like much of what he writes.  I can’t...

June 2019

June 26, 2019

Dancing in the Ruins

I haven’t read it, but I love the title of this book.  If some schoolboy...

June 05, 2019

Some of my Best Friends are the Least of These

With conferences like this one still in existence, there is no respite for the weary. ...

May 2019

May 18, 2019

Just, Pro-Woman

With all the recent bills passing state legislatures (by white men primarily) restricting or limiting...

May 06, 2019

I’m Tired of Politics

I want to take a quick moment, to extend my deepest sympathies and condolences to...

April 2019

April 14, 2019

Lord of the Left-Behind

Growing up in the fundamentalist-evangelical world, along with the fear of a girl’s rejection, test...

April 05, 2019

You Have No Power Here

There is a scene in the Wizard of Oz, at the beginning, when Dorothy has...

March 2019

March 14, 2019

Government Should Not be Run Like a Business

Something I’ve heard most of my life is a sentiment along the lines of, “Government...

March 05, 2019

Of God and Borders

I came across this recently.  Where to begin.  When I read things like this, I...

February 2019

February 16, 2019

SBC: The Problem is The Theology

Even though I was born and raised in the Western United States, I grew up...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

That God Chose Trump and Other Dumb Ideas

We’ve heard of people, or read of people, who have asserted that God chose Trump...

January 18, 2019

Evangelism as Deception

Something that has bothered me for some time, even when I was in that world,...

January 01, 2019

Poor Wayne Grudem

What to do when our departures and reversals from prior positions or statements are this...

December 2018

December 21, 2018

We Have Met the Enemy

I’m not a big believer in the Liberal Democratic Experiment we have been living since...

December 01, 2018

Who’s Afraid of Socialism?

I was brought up to see communism as the brain child of Satan and the...

November 2018

November 19, 2018

Do Some Progressive Christians and Atheists Share These Three Beliefs?

Such is the assertion posed in a recent essay published on The Gospel Coalition (TGC)...

November 08, 2018

Outside the Camp

Since the mid-terms are over, we probably won’t hear much more about the caravan of...

October 2018

October 22, 2018

Lipstick on a Pig

The dilemma moderate evangelical pastors/leaders find themselves facing is, well, the other evangelicals.  The majority. ...

October 13, 2018

This Rolling Spectacle

Too much ink has already been spilled and key strokes manipulated regarding the Kavanaugh appointment,...

September 2018

September 29, 2018

You Keep Using That Term “Counter-Cultural”

Being, “counter-cultural” is a buzz-word thrown around in fundamentalist/evangelical circles--many circles in fact.  Or, it...

September 17, 2018

True—Kaepernick Didn’t Sacrifice “Everything”

As I’ve written before, I like and respect the President of Gateway Seminary, Dr. Jeff...

September 07, 2018

The Gospel is Social Justice

There is no other gospel, but a social justice gospel.  Any other type would be...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

What if…?

What if, as Christians, we decided to listen first, rather than respond immediately with, “But...

August 18, 2018

Religion as Fallen Power

I’m not a Catholic in the sense of what most mean by that descriptor, but...

August 07, 2018

The Irrelevancy of Inerrancy

The Maginot Line was a series of fortifications built by the French after World War...

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