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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,...

July 2024

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...

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...

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...

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...

December 2021

December 10, 2021

The Sufficiency of Scripture Slogan is a Dodge

What do Protestants in general, specifically fundamentalists/evangelicals, mean when they speak of the sufficiency of...

November 2021

November 06, 2021

Evangelicals Should Change Their Name to Religious Neoliberals

For at least the last 10 years or so, the decisions and behaviors of a...

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 01, 2021

Evangelicalism: May 15, 1957—January 6, 2021

On May 15, 1957, evangelist Billy Graham preached for the first time at Madison Square...

March 2021

March 06, 2021

Discipleship by Proxy

In regard to our present moment, when it comes to white evangelicalism and the political,...

February 2021

February 06, 2021

The Privilege of Silence

This post is for those white evangelicals out there who are conflicted. They are politically...

January 2021

January 24, 2021

Postmodernism Wasn’t the Problem

Some conservative evangelicals and other voices are trying to blame the last four years of...

January 14, 2021

Epistemology Via Urban Legends

I don’t remember where I heard or read it, but I do recall the rumor...

January 09, 2021

Frankenstein

What we saw on January 6, 2021 lumbering from the President’s Park South toward the...

June 2020

June 06, 2020

Who’s Afraid of Progressive Christianity?

Clearly, Alisa Childers is. Obviously, I write on the Progressive Christianity platform created by Patheos....

March 2020

March 12, 2020

The Pecuniary Over Principle—Mammon Over Morality

I’ve started a fascinating book written by Eugene McCarraher, which asserts, among other things, that capitalism...

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...

October 2019

October 12, 2019

Dead Man Walking

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

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...

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 01, 2019

Poor Wayne Grudem

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

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. ...

September 2018

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 07, 2018

The Irrelevancy of Inerrancy

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

July 2018

July 26, 2018

Os Guinness: The Prophet

Growing up in the evangelical tradition, Os Guinness was one of my favorite writers, intellectuals,...