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September 2021

September 28, 2021

When does masculinity and femininity become toxic?

Toxic gendering is when we embrace some fruit of the Spirit as primarily masculine or...

September 21, 2021

Defining masculinity and femininity biblically is harder than you think

This post prepares us to answer the question, “When do masculinity and femininity become toxic?”...

July 2021

July 27, 2021

Ranking Schools Based On Reputation, Not Education

All cultures, including the US, care about honor or status. This post notes 4 ways...

July 20, 2021

Black Privilege and Weaponizing White Guilt

This post turns attention to the ways that CRT (and similar ideologies) employ toxic shame...

July 13, 2021

Does Critical Race Theory (CRT) Stigmatize Blacks?

This post considers the link between shame and Critical Race Theory (CRT), which, Shelby Steele...

June 2021

June 15, 2021

Forsaking Identity is the Logical Consequence of Individualism

Individualism is not individuality. It is an ideology. Such a worldview is not only irrational;...

May 2021

May 04, 2021

Civility is a Life and Death Issue

Over the past number of years, incivility has destroyed friendships. It has divided families and...

April 2021

April 20, 2021

Separating for the Sake of Church Unity

Winsome Conviction opens with a provocative statement: “there are times when the best way to...

April 13, 2021

Argument Culture, Not Conviction, Threatens the Church

Without understanding how to disagree well, the church will never have unity, just mere conformity....

February 2021

February 16, 2021

How Honor and Shame Infuse Christian Nationalism

How does one begin to sort how honor and shame infuse Christian nationalism? We must...

February 09, 2021

What or Who is a Christian Nation?

When it comes to the question, “Is America a Christian nation?”, people often confuse America’s...

January 2021

January 12, 2021

Reviewing Rachel Welcher’s Talking Back to Purity Culture

The Imago Dei concerns both our bodies and our relationships with others, regardless of gender,...

November 2020

November 10, 2020

Does the Bible really address policing and black identity?

Looking at the table of contents, I scratched my head trying to imagine how McCaulley...

November 03, 2020

Reading While Black as an Exercise in Contextualization

Prior to the release of Esau McCaulley’s Reading While Black, I had mixed feelings about...

October 2020

October 21, 2020

Approaching Wokeness with Generosity

Is it true that colorblindness is not the goal of these writers? Depends. They do...

October 20, 2020

SubChristian Caricatures of Wokeness

Strachan's comments come from his sincere ambition to help the church be free from enslaving...

October 09, 2020

My Christianity Today article on the Riptide of “Political Denominationalism”

Today, Christianity Today was kind enough to publish an article I co-wrote with my good...

September 2020

September 23, 2020

Was Jesus’ Murder an Honor Killing?

Why did the people who murdered Jesus kill him? What was their motive or mindset?...

July 2020

July 14, 2020

We need a better definition of racism

Define your terms. More than 80% of our disagreements can probably be solved if we...

July 07, 2020

How Individualism Spreads Racism

Individualism is a key value in American white culture. By “individualism,” I don’t merely refer...

June 2020

June 24, 2020

Using Honor to Challenge Patriarchal Thinking

Understanding how women reinforce patriarchal thinking is one key component to combat patriarchy within society...

June 16, 2020

Talking about racism is American privilege

Let’s talk about American privilege,… the elephant not in the room at the moment. In...

June 10, 2020

When Women Reinforce Patriarchy

Christians talk about patriarchy far less than those outside the church. The justification for such...

June 02, 2020

My Unfaithfulness in a Kansas City Hotel Room

Entering the hotel lobby, he headed straight for the elevator. Before the doors opened, the...

April 2020

April 09, 2020

Coronavirus Exposes the Cost of Individualistic Christianity

The coronavirus has exposed both the contradiction and the cost of popular, individualistic Christianity. Ironically,...

March 2020

March 23, 2020

6 Ways to Impact the World While Social Distancing

What can we do while locked up in my home? This post suggests 6 ways...

March 11, 2020

Even self-driving cars are affected by culture

Here's an article worth talking about around the coffee machine. The following introduces an article...

July 2019

July 10, 2019

Tight versus Loose? The cultural distinction missionaries aren’t talking about

You’re familiar with shame, guilt, and fear cultures. You know about collectivism and individualism. But...

February 2019

February 13, 2019

The Coddling of the American Missionary

Three untruths have coddled the American missionary mind. I summarized them in my previous post....

February 06, 2019

The Most Important Book I Read from the Past Year (and how knowing untruth can set you free)

The most significant, insightful, and provocative book of 2018, in my opinion, was The Coddling...