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June 2018

June 13, 2018

Is This Evangelicalism’s Red-Pill Moment?

Generally speaking, evangelicals believe you can separate form from content. You can take meaning—what I...

November 2016

November 03, 2016

Children and Household Religion

Years ago a Haitian pastor asked me, "Why do white people hate children?" When I...

June 2016

June 28, 2016

Is the Scientific Method a Form of Mental Illness?

I had thought of naming this post: Science and the Quotidian Mind, but I was...

May 2016

May 23, 2016

Why Beer Commercials Are the Best and What That Says about Creativity

I actually had a Dos Equis for no other reason than The Most Interesting Man...

March 2016

March 14, 2016

Diana Moon Glampers, Sociobiology, and Aristotle

This weekend the Wall Street Journal confirmed what we pretty much know intuitively, stronger-looking men...

March 07, 2016

The Fermi Paradox and Extraterrestrial Life

When I was a kid I figured we'd be a star-faring civilization by now. Things...

February 2016

February 05, 2016

Living in a Metaphor

I recall a conversation with a young author years ago. We were having lunch in...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Why Evangelical Gender-Egalitarians are Statists

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

January 15, 2016

Nominalism and the Law of Unintended Consequences

I like antibiotics and air-conditioning, and I'd like to keep them. Many knowledgable people agree...

January 13, 2016

Is Evangelicalism a Secularizing Force?

I've thought long and hard about secularism and as I've done so I've come to...

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...

December 07, 2015

I Used to Think I Could Walk on Water

I never pulled it off. When Jesus did it it wasn't just a wonder; it...