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December 2019

December 07, 2019

Guest Post Responding to My Essay about “Relational Sovereignty”

Guest Post Responding to My Essay about “Relational Sovereignty” I asked a friend if I...

December 02, 2019

What If Twins in a Womb Could Think and Talk? A Parable

What If Twins in a Womb Could Think and Talk? A Parable I recently came...

November 2019

November 29, 2019

Has Franklin Graham Gone Off the Rails?

Franklin Graham said opposition to President Trump is “almost demonic” & “spiritual warfare.” This was...

November 25, 2019

Finally Some Common Sense about Boys, Men and Masculinity

Finally Some Common Sense about Boys, Men and Masculinity Here, several times, I have raised...

November 21, 2019

A Relational View of God’s Sovereignty

A Relational View of God’s Sovereignty Roger E. Olson   My office phone rang and...

November 18, 2019

Is Contemporary Worship “Utterly Dangerous?” Keith Getty Says Yes

Is Contemporary Worship “Utterly Dangerous?” Keith Getty Says Yes In a recent article published in...

November 14, 2019

Can God Change the Past? And What does that Have to Do with Open Theism?

Can God Change the Past? And What Does that Have to Do with Open Theism?...

November 10, 2019

Who Needs a God Who Looks Like Us?

Who Needs a God Who Looks Like Us? Over my years of teaching Christian theology...

November 07, 2019

A Question about Evangelical Churches that are “Welcoming and Affirming”

A Question about Evangelical Churches that are “Welcoming and Affirming” Let me define my terms....

November 03, 2019

The Fundamentalists Are At It Again

The Fundamentalists Are At It Again Most American fundamentalists stopped calling themselves fundamentalists years ago—around...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

What Is It Like to Be Black in America?

What Is It Like to Be Black in America? The simple answer is “I don’t...

October 27, 2019

Some Thoughts about Celebrities Who Become Christians and Then…

Some Thoughts about Celebrities Who Become Christians and Then… Recently, here in the United States,...

October 24, 2019

Is It Ever Wrong for a Christian to Forgive?

Is It Ever Wrong for a Christian to Forgive? Here is my question spelled out...

October 20, 2019

Review of Lovin’ On Jesus and Thoughts about CCM

Review of Lovin’ On Jesus: A Concise History of Contemporary Worship Plus Thoughts about “Contemporary...

October 17, 2019

Surprises in the History of Christian Ethics

Surprises in the History of Christian Ethics Lately I have been reading a great deal...

October 12, 2019

Should Christian Worship Happen with a “Concert Atmosphere?”

Should Christian Worship Happen with a “Concert Atmosphere?” Recently someone seeking a church to attend...

October 09, 2019

Our God Reigns (But How?)

Our God Reigns (But How?) *This is a sermon I preached recently. I think I...

October 05, 2019

A Scholar Who Denied Sex/Gender Difference Recants

A Scholar Who Denied Sex/Gender Difference Recants How well I remember first being told that...

October 02, 2019

Trump and the Rhetoric of Tyranny

Trump and the Rhetoric of Tyranny I used to see a bumper sticker on cars...

September 2019

September 29, 2019

An Ethical Dilemma Posed in a Stephen King Novel

An Ethical Dilemma Posed in a Stephen King Novel What if…the world, humanity, could only...

September 24, 2019

Is Christianity Culturally Relative? A Question for Christians to Consider

Is Christianity Culturally Relative? A Question for Christians to Consider Many Christian academics, especially in...

September 20, 2019

What If Universalism Were True? A Question for Evangelical Christians Especially

What If Universalism Were True? A Question for Evangelical Christians Especially Throughout Christian history some...

September 17, 2019

What Would Be the Alternatives (To Theology Explaining Things?)

What Would Be the Alternatives (To Theology Explaining Things)? My immediately preceding blog post was...

September 13, 2019

What Does Theology Explain?

What Does Theology Explain? I often simply delete comments here that violate my blog rules....

September 09, 2019

What Happened in 2015?

What Happened in 2015? I believe I am quite an astute observer of cultural trends...

September 05, 2019

Do Arminians and Calvinists Worship the Same God? How?

Do Arminians and Calvinists Worship the Same God? How? This question never dies. While most...

September 01, 2019

Why Science and Theology Need Not Conflict

First, why does this matter? Why talk about the relationship between science and theology here...

August 2019

August 29, 2019

Has Science Buried God?

Has Science Buried God? John Lennox Says No Recently I found and viewed an interview...

August 25, 2019

A Simple Way to Distinguish between Fundamentalism and Liberalism in Christian Theology

One Simple Way to Distinguish between Fundamentalism and Liberalism in Christian Theology I have often...

August 22, 2019

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Spoke in Hitler’s Wheel?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Spoke in Hitler’s Wheel? Recently here, on this blog, there has been...

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