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April 2025

April 01, 2025

Do Scapegoats Purify America?

In order to make America great again, the White House tries to fire civil servants...

July 2024

July 15, 2024

Trump, Unity, and the Scapegoat

The near death experience of presidential candidate Donald Trump places him at the vortex of...

May 2024

May 30, 2024

This was a Disgrace! Sin 12

Was this a disgrace? Yes, indeed. But a dis-grace of a special sort. No tone...

November 2023

November 27, 2023

Evangelicals Against Christian Nationalism

The bombastic vitriol spewed by the anti-Christian nationalsm movement is really aimed, I think, at...

April 2023

April 03, 2023

Angry Theologians Talk Back

In the controversy over angry theologians, we note how moments of unaddressed injustice prompt justifiable...

December 2022

December 26, 2022

Religion Decline & Public Theology

Religion decline is made obvious not only by the decline of church attendance and the...

November 2022

November 02, 2022

Resentment with Compassion 6

To live the Christian life, we certainly need to pray that the Holy Spirit give...

October 2022

October 21, 2022

Moscow Again: The Worst Public Theology

Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, steals precious Christian symbols to scapegoat the people...

October 12, 2022

Scapegoat

Scapegoat: Articles & Resources

October 12, 2022

Self-Justification

What happens when we sin? We draw a line between good and evil. Then, we...

October 07, 2022

How does Jesus save? Part Seven: Final Scapegoat

Rene Girard’s theory of Jesus-as-the-final-scapegoat reveals to us that we human beings are liars and...

September 2022

September 12, 2022

The Chaos Machine, Social Media, and Public Theology

According to Max Fisher in "The Chaos Machine," social media greedily alters the way we...

February 2022

February 25, 2022

Nazi Cursing of, and by, Russia

Whenever you and I engage in violence we want to be justified. President Vladimir Putin...

November 2021

November 28, 2021

Sin 5: Sin Boldly!

When in a dilemma in which no purely right decision can be made, sin boldly...

November 19, 2021

Sin 4: the Invisible Scapegoat

The dead soldier is America’s invisible scapegoat. All living soldiers are also sacred because they...

November 10, 2021

Sin 3: the Visible Scapegoat

Adam and Eve justified eating the forbidden fruit by blaming each other, blaming the serpent,...

November 05, 2021

Sin 2: Self-Justification

I believe the concept of sin is one of the brightest lights the public theologian...