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March 2023

March 26, 2023

When Opinions Are Facts: the Dumbing Down of American Christianity

I was seventeen in 1988, and Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ had just landed...

March 20, 2023

Is Christianity Delivering on Its Promise to Change People?

For years I’ve convinced myself that I based my faith on a dogged pursuit of...

March 18, 2022

Rethinking Hell: a Beginner’s Guide to Conditionalism and Annihilationism

Several years ago, I started publicly deconstructing the topic of hell and received the most...

March 13, 2022

The Absolute Monstrous Absurdity of Believing in Hell

I've written about my philosophical and Scriptural problems with the idea of hell in the...

March 06, 2022

The Bible Passage That Helped Turn Me into a Flaming Liberal

I didn't become a Christian until I was in my early twenties. Yet, decades later,...

May 2021

May 31, 2021

How Dungeons & Dragons Informed My Christian Theology

I fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons as a jr. high kid in the...

April 2021

April 07, 2021

Why American Evangelicalism Was QAnon’s Perfect Breeding Ground

My wife and I just finished watching Q: Into the Storm, which is a bizarro...

February 2021

February 12, 2021

No. You’re Not Getting “Canceled” for Being a Conservative

Disney announced the firing of actress Gina Carano over an Instagram post the company...

October 2020

October 26, 2020

What’s the Appropriate Christian Response to Your Racist Uncle?

It’s not an easy time to be a reasonable person in America. The tension and...

October 17, 2020

Judging Others Isn’t Wrong. It’s Required.

Christian historians will be studying evangelical support for Trump for hundreds of years. How...

October 16, 2020

4 Reasons We Should Focus on Poverty Instead of Abortion

It's that season again when everyone's Christian relative is on Facebook, talking as if abortion...

September 2020

September 19, 2020

The Social Dilemma: Is Christian Community Even Possible Anymore?

I watched The Social Dilemma the other day—mostly because I saw everyone talking about it...

August 2020

August 10, 2020

Things Christians Think and Do Not Say: Why Evangelicalism Needs to Change or Die

At the beginning of Jerry Maguire, Tom Cruise’s character has a breakthrough (or, depending on...

June 2020

June 15, 2020

What Happens When “Good” Pastors Refuse to Get Political

In many faith spaces, you'll hear the following refrain: "Let's not get too political. We...

May 2020

May 13, 2020

How a Plague Exposed the “Christian Nation” Myth

The evidence is in. The United States can finally abandon the pretense that it is...

May 08, 2020

3 Reasons Evangelical Christians Fall for Conspiracy Theories

Americans have always loved a good conspiracy theory. In the 1840s, a group of citizens...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

Spare Me Your Sudden Concern about Division

There was a Facebook post defending Trump that went viral in March. Maybe you’ve seen...

January 2020

January 08, 2020

3 Bad Habits We Pick Up from Corporate Prayer

I don’t know if anything in Christian thought and practice is more confusing than prayer....

January 03, 2020

Are American Christians too Quick to Embrace War?

Yesterday the United States launched a drone strike against Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head...

February 2019

February 26, 2019

Biblical Illiteracy Is a Big Problem—for Christians

Whenever Trump feels like he's in trouble, he begins pandering to his evangelical base....

January 2019

January 09, 2019

What’s the Narrow Way Jesus Taught About? It’s Love.

"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy...

January 07, 2019

5 Reasons Suicidal People Don’t Ask for Help

Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. Recent statistics state...

January 04, 2019

Unmerciful Servants and the Immigration Debate

The Christian life is about the management of the things God has entrusted us with....

November 2018

November 08, 2018

Love or Fear: What’s the Defining Characteristic of a Christian?

"Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold"—Jesus (Matt. 24:12)...

July 2018

July 03, 2018

7 Terrible Things the Bible Clearly Says

I'm pretty lucky to have conversations with Christians from a variety of backgrounds and cultures....

June 2018

June 12, 2018

Resolved: 20 Decisions for Surviving the Church with Your Faith Intact

Jesus famously said that the road that leads to life is narrow and only a...

June 02, 2018

Does Systemic Evil Exist and What Does It Matter?

I commented on poverty and systemic evil on Twitter, and I was surprised at the...

June 02, 2018

God’s Antidote for Patriotism: the Kingdom of God

It's not necessarily a hot take to point to 380 AD as a pivotal moment...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

Rethinking the Christian Relationship to Alcohol

The on-again-off-again relationship between Christians and alcohol always reminded me of Ross and Rachel on...

April 24, 2018

How Wild Wild Country Made Me Hungry for a Healthier Christianity

I’m always late to the party. I was watching a recent SNL featuring John Mulaney/Jack White, and they...