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February 04, 2026

Faith in Your Team

One of the key topics I address in my new book Beyond Deconstruction is how so-called...

September 2025

September 14, 2025

The Evil of the Murder of Charlie Kirk

I am hearing a lot of voices circulating on social media that make me think...

March 2025

March 05, 2025

The Assault on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

That someone who looks more and more like the caricature of the antichrist every day...

September 2024

September 02, 2024

A Sin Unlike Any Other

Are Christian same-sex relationships an oxymoron? Or is claiming that God prohibits love - not...

August 2024

August 02, 2024

What If Imane Khelif Was Your Daughter?

Imane Khelif has become the center of a lot of news reporting, but not because...

July 2024

July 30, 2024

Why “Life Begins at Conception” Is Simply Not True

"Life begins at conception" is an attempt to make something simple that is in fact...

July 03, 2024

Same-Sex Relationships and the Bible: A Conversation

I had some interaction with someone on Facebook about the subject of same-sex relationships in...

June 2024

June 12, 2024

Southern Baptists: I Pledge Allegiance Against IVF

While the Southern Baptist Convention is always a convention, it also holds conventions for pastors...

May 2023

May 01, 2023

Babies’ Sinful Cries?

I heard a preacher recently who claimed that babies crying for food and not being...

January 2023

January 16, 2023

God’s Ideal for Human Flourishing

I have been meaning to write this post ever since I read New Testament scholar...

July 2022

July 13, 2022

This Is How I Fight…Just Be Kind

Everything Everywhere All At Once is a very strange movie. It has a sheer silliness about...

February 2022

February 28, 2022

Jesus and Nonviolence

I asked my Sunday school class to take a detour into a topic that I...

December 2021

December 29, 2021

AI and Ethics

I had hoped to be able to share the talk I gave to an audience...

December 28, 2021

Interview with Mike Austin, author of God and Guns in America

I had the opportunity to interview Mike Austin about his book God and Guns in America....

October 2021

October 06, 2021

Exorcism Left and Right

I enjoyed talking about the story of the Gerasene/Gadarene/Gergesene demoniac in my Sunday school class...

April 2021

April 18, 2021

Baking Cakes and Paying Taxes in Corinth

Seeing news items about a tax professional with a sign saying he would not provide...

April 02, 2021

#CFP Guantanamo Bay Meets Star Trek

I am helping to circulate an interesting call for papers, which will be of interest...

March 2021

March 17, 2021

Same-Sex Attraction, Mediterranean Culture, and Scripture

I have thought a lot about same-sex relationships as the topic intersects with the Bible...

January 2021

January 30, 2021

Is Abortion Murder? (Giving Birth Again to a 27-year-old)

I have felt puzzled and surprised by some of the things said in a response...

January 26, 2021

Giving Birth to a 27-Year-Old

The one issue that has become the make-or-break issue for not only Catholics but also...

December 2020

December 10, 2020

Ethical Dreaming

I know I've felt that dreams I've had in the past have conveyed other kinds...

September 2020

September 20, 2020

Nature Gone Wild

This post was sparked by a blog post by Ivy Helman focused on the example...

September 11, 2020

Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World’s Religions

Today seems like a good occasion to revisit a document that was issued in conjunction...

June 2020

June 10, 2020

Justice and Supermarkets

I've mentioned before my interest in writing a book that explores something like "a year...

January 2020

January 24, 2020

Doctor Who: Orphan 55

It is perhaps just as well that travels prevented me from blogging about this episode...

March 2019

March 29, 2019

Tensions in Progressive Morality

Richard Beck writes, The moral resources needed to navigate the conflict between non-judgmental inclusion and...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Believing We’re Serving God

Today, as the #BUDayofGiving (actually 1855 minutes of giving) for 2019 draws to a close,...

January 2019

January 21, 2019

Putting Theologies to the Test

Today is Martin Luther King day, and the activity of King and other civil rights...

December 2018

December 14, 2018

Inerrancy: The Hermeneutics of Defending Slavery

I have such a great appreciation for Neil Carter. Although he is no longer a...

October 2018

October 21, 2018

Defining Evil and Unmasking Monsters

I find myself really challenged by something Mike Duncan wrote on his blog Bad Rhetoric...

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