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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 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...

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...

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...

October 2021

October 16, 2021

The Political as Religion

This trend has been long in the making but it was amplified by the advent...

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 19, 2021

Falun Gong and Evangelicals

Consider the evangelical who has fallen into the GQP, right-wing, conspiracy-minded, Trump worship of the...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

December 2019

December 26, 2019

Leithart Makes A Poor Case for Keeping Trump

I respect Peter Leithart a great deal and have read several of his books.  His...

October 2019

October 26, 2019

Poor Analysis—False Equivalence—Bad Outcome

I’m all for tolerance and civility.  Amen brothers.  However, I’m also for logic, nuance, and...

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...

June 2019

June 26, 2019

Dancing in the Ruins

I haven’t read it, but I love the title of this book.  If some schoolboy...

May 2019

May 18, 2019

Just, Pro-Woman

With all the recent bills passing state legislatures (by white men primarily) restricting or limiting...

April 2019

April 05, 2019

You Have No Power Here

There is a scene in the Wizard of Oz, at the beginning, when Dorothy has...

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