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April 2015

April 04, 2015

Do Christians Mean What They Say? A response to Frank Bruni

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni doesn't believe that Christians who are opposed to same-sex...

February 2015

February 23, 2015

Scott Walker Doesn’t Know if Obama Is a Christian (And Neither Do I)

Governor and Republican Presidential hopeful Scott Walker says he doesn't know if President Obama is...

February 03, 2015

Measles and Mainline Protestants

Vaccination skepticism is--regardless of one's judgment about inoculation--an elemental rejection of expertise and authority structures. Hostility...

February 02, 2015

Marriage and Me

My mother and I were sitting across from each other at the dinner table, talking...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

C.S. Lewis On Why You Shouldn’t Dump Doctrine for More Friends

Kurt Willems thinks Christians should "give up" the doctrine of Hell for one simple reason:...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

The Strange Oprahfication of Rob Bell

I've tried for a few days now to come up with the right word for...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

On Matthew Vines and Telling the Truth About Dissenters

In the beginning of his book God and the Gay Christian, Matthew Vines takes pains...

November 17, 2014

Could Matthew Vines Make a Case for Christian Idolatry?

That's the question that Andrew Wilson implicitly asks in his brilliant parody entitled "The Case...

October 2014

October 17, 2014

Brittany Maynard, Rachel Held Evans, and Not Giving Up

The saddest thing about Brittany Maynard’s journey towards suicide is not that she is making...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

The Great Big American Liberal God

Buried underneath endless sediment of vitriol, spite and calcified heterodoxy, Matthew Paul Turner's book Our...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

More Religious Than God?

I did not watch last night's "Calvinism Debate" because, frankly, I had better things to...

June 2014

June 10, 2014

Southern Baptists: Adapt Or Die?

The Southern Baptist Convention is having its general meeting in Baltimore this week. The 160 year...