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January 2018

January 16, 2018

Innocence and Wisdom

Regarding my recent post (Jan 6) about modernity, wisdom, and innocence, some further reflection. We...

January 13, 2018

Hypocrisy 101

I wondered how long it would take and it didn’t take long. Jeff Iorg is...

January 06, 2018

Modernity as the Refusal of Innocence

If you remember your childhood, or have children, or grandchildren, or nieces and nephews, then...

December 2017

December 30, 2017

Year End Round-Up

I look back at 2017 with some ambivalence. For me personally, it was a difficult...

December 22, 2017

Christmas is the Deconstruction of the World

There are dominant myths and stories that provide the boundaries in which we perceive the...

December 16, 2017

Learning from the Story of the Wise Men

I’ve always been fascinated by the story of the Wise Men (Matt 2). Even in...

December 09, 2017

The Poetic and the Real

Michael Martin (See here) in his most recent blog post (See here), writes: “…And by...

December 06, 2017

Whose Feet, Cake, Wine, Food?

Given that arguments were just heard by the Supreme Court, arguments of cakes, rights, and...

December 03, 2017

“The Evangelical Love Affair with Enlightenment Science”

The above is one of the wonderful chapter headings in George Marsden’s classic book, “Understanding...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

Dining with the Devil

In 1993, Os Guinness wrote a wonderful little book (See here) entitled, “Dining with the...

November 17, 2017

Funda-gelicalism is Too Modern-Part Two

In a previous post (here), I asserted that FG people are more modern than they...

November 10, 2017

Christian: Is Your Bible an Idol?

Unfundamentalist has published a submitted essay. Please find it here.

November 08, 2017

Guns and Double Standards

After Las Vegas, I certainly didn’t think it would be this soon we would see...

November 03, 2017

500 Years

I know we are a few days past the 500-year anniversary of the Reformation; I’ve...

November 01, 2017

A Clarification

Just to clarify something. When I say I no longer inhabit the FG narrative, it...

October 2017

October 25, 2017

Radical Orthodoxy: The Last Gateway Out of Funda-gelicalism (For me)

In two prior posts I noted the two “gateway” influences that helped take me out...

October 15, 2017

Thank You President Trump

Even a perfunctory perusal of most media (social or otherwise), and serious respected commentary (and...

October 07, 2017

Unfundamentalist Has Moved

Many of you learned of my writing from Patheos and the Unfundamentalist blog on their...

October 06, 2017

Las Vegas: Some Thoughts and Prayers

Here’s a thought: Since we don’t wait one second to condemn and move against foreign...

September 2017

September 30, 2017

Postmodernism: A Further Gateway Out of Funda-gelicalism

In a prior post, I wrote about Reformed theology and how it was an initial...

September 22, 2017

“Funda-gelicalism”

Why do I call it “funda-gelicalism?” Good question. It’s not original to me—I read it...

September 16, 2017

The “You are the Man” Moment

Growing up in the fundamentalist/evangelical world, I was told there were enemies “out there.” This...

September 08, 2017

Why Not Sign?

Joel Belz, the founder of World Magazine (conservative evangelical publication), is a signer of the...

September 06, 2017

The Reformed Tradition: A Gateway Theology? Maybe

Most of us don’t go from one paradigm to another quickly, or in one move. ...

August 2017

August 30, 2017

Whose Feet?

The Unfundamentalist Christians blog on Patheos has published another submitted post of mine. You can...

August 27, 2017

Fundamentalists Are Too Modern

The great irony of fundamentalism is its delusional belief it is something that conserves or...

August 19, 2017

A Reckoning

Given the events of this week, Charlottesville, Trump’s response, Bannon’s departure, one might see it...

August 15, 2017

“The Silence Of Our Friends”

In the throes of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King,...

August 11, 2017

Reading the World

One of the critical moments for me, one of those “woke” moments, facilitating my journey...

August 04, 2017

What is “Political Correctness” Keeping You From Saying Out loud?

We heard it during the 2016 Presidential Campaign. “I just like the fact he speaks...