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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...

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...

October 2024

October 29, 2024

Trumpism, MAGA, is a Revived Paganism

The upcoming election is not primarily a choice between a democrat and a republican, a...

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...

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...

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 2023

September 04, 2023

More Bad News for Religious Leaders

Not only are religious leaders/pastors/theologians learning they are losing members, especially young people, along comes...

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...

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...

August 2022

August 24, 2022

Do Evangelicals Hate America?

Correct, that title was mostly to get your attention. Yes, hate is a strong word...

July 2022

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...

June 2022

June 16, 2022

Radicalized Funda-gelicals = January 6th Insurrection

On February 17, 2015, three teen-age girls made their way through Gatwick Airport in London...

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...

December 2021

December 22, 2021

Mary The Pregnant Revolutionary

In St. Luke’s Gospel we read: My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices...

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 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...

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...

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...

November 2020

November 10, 2020

Postmortem

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

November 01, 2020

A Requiem

I write this knowing every group, every segment of any religious, cultural, socio-political part of...

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...