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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,...

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...

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...

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...

August 2021

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...

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...

November 2020

November 10, 2020

Postmortem

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

July 2020

July 09, 2020

Is Separating the Gospel from Social Justice a Sign of White Privilege?

I’m suspicious. When I read or hear something put out by those most critical of...

October 2019

October 12, 2019

Dead Man Walking

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

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...

June 2018

June 11, 2018

Christians: We Are Still Upset Over the Wrong Things

When this post was published on Patheos last June, it clearly hit some nerves. The...

March 2018

March 17, 2018

Theology and Culture

To revisit quickly this post (see here), I wanted to follow-up with one of the...