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Are Complementarians America’s Taliban?

Hard to know whom to believe about conditions in Afghanistan for women. Reporters in the...

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Why Dressing for Halloween as a Bible-Carrying, Cis-Gender Kid is Scary

In my quest to rank the significance of modern society's injustices, the question today concerns...

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Virtue Laundering

As an alum of Harvard Divinity School, I regularly receive mass email messages from the...

September 17, 2019

Raiders Nation Reading Hour

Say what you will about the dust up between Sohrab Ahmari and David French and...

September 06, 2019

Trump is the POTUS that HBO Subscribers Deserve

I am still having trouble wrapping my mind around the very high moral standards that...

June 2019

June 13, 2019

You Don’t Need to be Roman Catholic To Have a Theology of the Body

I will be (all about mmmmmeeeee) leading students this evening in a discussion of some...

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All of Me or Hyphenated Me

I have a friend who is of Polish and Italian descent but his father is...

September 2018

September 13, 2018

How Shall They Hear or How Shall They Taste?

Now seems to be one of those teaching moments about the Reformation. Despite celebrations and...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

Sometimes You Leave, Other Times You Stay (in Evangelicalism)

If you are an evangelical, all that is required is being born-again, having that come-to-Jesus...

May 2018

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Damned If You Scold, Damned If You Don’t

John Fea reminds (as is his wont) of the hypocrisy of evangelical Trump supporters, this...

January 2018

January 16, 2018

Why Are Christians Obsessed with Sex?

Some people are worried about Christian/evangelical higher education and think the current climate of gay...

November 2017

November 21, 2017

Just In Time for Thanksgiving

Americans recover their inner-Puritan. H. L. Mencken summarized the Puritan outlook wittily when he said...

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September 05, 2017

You Gotta Offend Somebody

Two kinds of evangelicals: those who worry about offending certain groups and those who are...

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August 31, 2017

Will Liberal Protestants Squander their Moral Authority by Opposing Trump?

If you can believe it, the columns that underline evangelical hypocrisy for supporting the POTUS...

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Neither Male nor Female, But Always Jew or Greek

In 1992 justice Anthony Kennedy wrote on behalf of abortion rights that the sort of...

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March 14, 2017

Is Tim Keller about to have His Rod Dreher Moment?

Tim Keller, the PCA pastor of Redeemer Church in New York City, likely needs no...

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What if the NFL Were a Bigger Deal than Porn?

I know the biblical counselors used to reduce most of the moral law to idolatry,...

February 2017

February 03, 2017

Can We Have a National Conversation about Decency?

Today seems about as good as any to raise the question of national standards of...

July 2016

July 07, 2016

Does the Church Also Need to Apologize to Onanists?

For the biblically challenged, onansim is a synonym for masturbation, Onan being that character in...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

Do Christians Really Support Religious Liberty (part one)?

Russell Moore's recent defense of religious freedom for Muslim Americans reassured many: Does religious liberty...

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Marriage and the End of Moral Outrage

More news about Joe Paterno and his involvement in covering up Jerry Sandusky's sexual molestation...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Speaking of Identity

Do we need a Federal Department of Personal Identity to determine which aspects of ourselves...

August 11, 2015

A Century Ago Protestants Were Just as Pessimistic

I recently blogged for Eerdmans about the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage. I found...

July 2015

July 09, 2015

What’s Said in Michigan should Stay in Michigan (except when I say it)

If anyone wanted to know how difficult the argument against same-sex marriage is going to...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

#Doh

Jessica Bennett explains that women and men are different: Here’s an under-140-character musing for you:...

June 17, 2015

When Same-Sex becomes Conventional

So here was a thought that popped into my head today while listening to sports...

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May 29, 2015

Fake Church? How Would You Know?

Pete Enns a while back channeled Rachel Held Evans on the value of candor among...

May 18, 2015

Has He Shopped At Walmart Lately?

Patrick Deneen's comments about Indiana's RFRA has been making the rounds but they leave me...

May 16, 2015

The Dark Side of Sex

How many times when watching a tv show or movie do we see a man...

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