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April 07, 2016

Telling Stories: Why Preachers Should Learn to Write Good Fiction

J. R. R. Tolkien in his famous essay, On Fairy Stories noted that a story...

March 2016

March 21, 2016

Getting Your Brain Out of a Vat

It's a classic science fiction trope, the old brain in a vat schtick. You see...

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January 27, 2016

Stirred by Shakers: the Elegant Errors of a Failed Sect

When it comes to the opinion of the people who matter, the Shakers are hip....

January 24, 2016

Can the Artless Preach?

Within Protestantism anyway, when it comes to aspirants to the ministry, I hope it is...

January 21, 2016

Why Evangelical Gender-Egalitarians are Statists

An ethic is the inner structure of a polity. Sacramental Theology and Covenant Theology are...

December 2015

December 14, 2015

Are Protestants Human? (And what that has to do with my pulpit.)

Animals, I assume, are literalists. Metaphors, analogies: animals just don't get them. I tried a...

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