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May 2011

May 28, 2011

Can there be too many orphanages?

According to some experts on African orphans, there are now too many orphanages in Africa. ...

May 28, 2011

Follow up to my post about Oklahoma HB1804

Let me be crystal clear. I don't care what the legislature's intentions were in passing...

May 27, 2011

A case where Christian civil disobedience may be necessary

I cannot find out easily the current legal status of the entirety of Oklahoma House...

May 26, 2011

A brief total explanation of American Christianity

Totally tongue-in-cheek! Blame it on the mountain air. But I think there's some truth in...

May 25, 2011

Context is everything in understanding people (including me)

A few comments responding to my post about the label "evangelical" and why I can't...

May 23, 2011

Why I can’t give up the label “evangelical”

Friends and acquaintances on both the right and the left and nowhere on the theological...

May 22, 2011

Media hysteria about the “end of the world”

Yesterday (May 20) I blogged about Harold Camping's prediction that Christ would return today (May...

May 20, 2011

Harold Camping and the “end of the world” tomorrow (May 21)

According to news reports (and what I'm able to find on the internet) Christian radio...

May 19, 2011

Quote of the Day from Lord Acton

We have all heard the quote “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” by Lord...

May 18, 2011

Does God always do “the wisest thing?”

For some reason my most recent content post "Does God always do the wisest thing?"...

May 15, 2011

Why I wrote my books

I'm flattered that some commenters listed one or more of my books as among their...

May 13, 2011

10 favorite theology books

Someone asked me to list my 10 favorite theology books. I'm flattered that anyone cares! ...

May 11, 2011

When did evangelicalism start to go wrong (right)?

By "go wrong" I mean--go too conservative for its own good. I think I have...

May 10, 2011

Is God your "biggest fan?"

First, I apologize for the break in service. My blog was down due to circumstances...

May 09, 2011

Premillennialism revisited

This is an addendum to my recent post "The Kingdom of God as critical principle." ...

May 07, 2011

The Kingdom of God as critical principle

Underlying everything I wrote about the distinction between "justifiable" and "just" in my previous post...

May 06, 2011

The difference, theologically, between "justifiable" and "just"

Several people have asked me to clarify what I mean when I say that an...

May 03, 2011

Should Christians celebrate death?

I realize I'm treading on dangerous ground here. And everyone who knows my Anabaptist tendencies...

May 01, 2011

Are Mormons Christians?

I've been reading a new book by my LDS acquaintance Robert (Bob) Millet who teaches...

April 2011

April 29, 2011

Athanasius and objective atonement

Some have questioned whether anything like the satisfaction or penal substitution theories of the atonement...

April 29, 2011

God's sovereignty by the rules

Some comments here are so good that I want to make them posts. I hope...

April 28, 2011

R.I.P. David Wilkerson

According to news reports, David Wilkerson, author of The Cross and the Switchblade, died in...

April 27, 2011

"Deep Church"

Some students (current and former) and I have been reading and discussing a new book entitled...

April 24, 2011

A P.S. regarding capital punishment

It was my intention to move on from the controversy about capital punishment that resulted...

April 24, 2011

Church fires, holocausts, and God's intentions

A recent Associate Press article out of North Carolina reported on wild fires that burned...

April 22, 2011

Whatever became of the cross?

Today is Good Friday and an appropriate time to return to a theme I've dealt...

April 20, 2011

Capital punishment and slavery

It seems to me some who have responded to my earlier post regarding capital punishment...

April 19, 2011

Certainty Not (another one of those pesky pre-biblical theological decisions)

Some time ago I wrote here about two important theological decisions the Bible does not...

April 17, 2011

Capital Punishment is sin

A controversy is raging over capital punishment in Texas--a state that executes upwards of 30...

April 15, 2011

Generic Christianity and particularist commitments: on being transparent

I have a close acquaintance who belongs to an Evangelical Free Church in the Midwest...