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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 2024

July 20, 2024

Providence for Me but Not for Thee

Since the attempted assassination of former President Trump, there has been much talk of God’s...

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...

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...

April 2023

April 17, 2023

Some of the Best Christians I have Known were Atheists

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love...

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...

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...

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...

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...

June 04, 2022

Appearances Can Be Deceiving

I came across the following social media meme, you know, those pithy comments or reflections...

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 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...

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,...

August 2021

August 26, 2021

Disciples of Jesus or Ayn Rand and Nietzsche?

I know what you’re thinking. How does something like this happen? Well, how much time...

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...

May 07, 2021

It’s All Common Grace

If one grew up in especially a Calvinist strain of fundamentalism/evangelicalism, they at some time...

March 2021

March 29, 2021

The Anarchy of Charity

I came across these three words (“anarchy of charity”) while re-reading David Bentley Hart’s seminal...

March 15, 2021

The End is the Beginning

From here we read: “In contrast, whenever the New Testament speaks of the universality of...

November 2020

November 25, 2020

I Believe in Hell

I do believe in hell. I just don’t believe in hell, the way most Christians,...

November 01, 2020

A Requiem

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

August 2020

August 24, 2020

A Theology That Bleeds

In my former life as an evangelical (really more a fundamentalist) I was always interested...

August 14, 2020

Christ: The End of Religion, Part Two

In the following, what I present is an interpretation from a finite, limited perspective (obviously)....

August 08, 2020

Christ: The End of Religion, Part One

In the following, what I present is an interpretation from a finite, limited perspective (obviously)....

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...