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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...

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...

May 2024

May 25, 2024

Cruelty is the Point

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

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 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...

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...

October 2021

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,...

December 2020

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 10, 2020

Postmortem

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

October 2020

October 23, 2020

Presidents, Pastors, and John Piper

Disgraced evangelical leader, Jerry Falwell Jr., infamously noted in 2016 that we were not electing...

October 08, 2020

I’m Not Voting for A Politician

I hear this all the time: “I’m tired of politicians. I want someone real, someone...

July 2020

July 15, 2020

Biblical Justice is Social Justice

Running through the theological framework of fundamentalism and evangelicalism, perhaps even the Protestant tradition, is...

February 2020

February 06, 2020

What Did Jesus Get Upset About?

I’ve focused several times on the fact that evangelicals, in my opinion, get upset over...

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...

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...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

What if…?

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

July 2018

July 11, 2018

We Had to Burn the Village Down in Order to Save It

This sentiment, whether the exact words or not, was reportedly conveyed to journalist Peter Arnett...

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...

January 2018

January 13, 2018

Hypocrisy 101

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

June 2017

June 30, 2017

Christian: You Are Upset About The Wrong Things

Sociologist Tony Campolo has been known, when speaking to Christian audiences, to begin by saying...