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2023-12-08T08:22:29-05:00

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Proof that Something Is Seriously Amiss in America’s Universities

Last updated on: December 8, 2023 at 8:22 am By Roger E. Olson

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Proof that Something Is Seriously Amiss in America’s Universities According to news reports, ones on TV news network prime time programs, showing three presidents of major Ivy League universities speaking at a congressional hearing, something is terribly amiss in American universities. A congresswoman asked the three female presidents of major universities whether calling for genocide of Jews by employees or students constitutes free speech or whether such should be grounds for firing or expulsion. The three presidents repeatedly would not... Read more

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2023-12-06T09:28:21-05:00

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Is Donald Trump “Orange Jesus?”

Last updated on: December 6, 2023 at 9:28 am By Roger E. Olson

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Is Donald Trump “Orange Jesus?” According to a forthcoming book by former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, at least one influential Republican member of congress referred to Donald Trump as “orange Jesus.” So far I have not read or heard of any reliable refutation of that. On MSNBC Lawrence O’Donnell has labeled that “blasphemy.” I’m a long-time and fairly educated and influential Christian theologian, so I should know what constitutes blasphemy. But I don’t. The dictionary definitions of the word blasphemy... Read more

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2023-12-04T08:50:01-05:00

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Announcing a New Book Discussion

Last updated on: December 4, 2023 at 8:50 am By Roger E. Olson

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Announcing a New Book Discussion Beginning on Monday, December 18, God willing, I will begin discussion here of The Essentials of Christian Thought: Seeing Reality through the Biblical Story (Zondervan, 2017). I am the author. Here are two recommendations of the book of which I am especially proud: “Olson offers his readers a timely and powerful defense of a distinctively Christian metaphysics and teases out its implications for theology, apologetics, and cultural dialogue. It is a rich and rewarding read... Read more

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2023-12-02T11:55:42-05:00

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Are American Christians Persecuted?

Last updated on: December 2, 2023 at 11:55 am By Roger E. Olson

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Are American Christians Persecuted? According to some new reports, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representative, Mike Johnson, one of the highest officials in the country, recently commented that American Christians are persecuted. Naturally, this drew negative responses from some left-leaning commentators. One was a woman who wrote a column about Johnson’s claim for the Religious News Service. I read it in The Anabaptist World. Mike Johnson is a conservative Christian, probably, almost certainly, a self-identified evangelical in both... Read more

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2023-12-01T08:48:31-05:00

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An Even Stranger Thing…

Last updated on: December 1, 2023 at 8:48 am By Roger E. Olson

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An Even Stranger Thing… The Youtube documentary shocked me and shook me to the core of my being. Why have I never head of this before? To see and hear what I heard and saw go to this Youtube video: “The Rise of the Crisis Actor Conspiracy Movement.” Have I been living under a rock or have I had my head in this sand? Before watching this video I had no idea such people or their ideas existed. But I... Read more

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2023-11-28T19:51:55-05:00

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How Do You Know You’re Not Brainwashed?

Last updated on: November 28, 2023 at 7:51 pm By Roger E. Olson

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How Do You Know You’re Not Brainwashed? First, let’s define two words. What do I mean by “know?” Well, really just the usual sense of the word except I exclude absolute, total, incorrigible certainty. I don’t think that’s humanly possible. The mind can always possibly be shaken by new experiences. So by “know” I mean have “proper confidence”—knowledge beyond a reasonable doubt. Second, what do I mean by “brainwashed?” It’s a word with a large element of subjectivity. Here, however,... Read more

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2023-11-26T18:29:57-05:00

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The Upside-Down Kingdom, Chapter 12: Successful Failures

Last updated on: November 26, 2023 at 6:29 pm By Roger E. Olson

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The Upside-Down Kingdom, Chapter 12: Successful Failure There’s much in this chapter to “talk” about. But I’d like to focus on one main point: the meaning of “bearing one’s cross.” As I read Kraybill’s explanation, I was reminded of John Howard Yoder’s discussion of this in The Politics of Jesus. According to both Kraybill and Yoder, “bearing one’s cross” does NOT mean putting up with suffering, mental or physical. Bearing one’s cross is about sacrificing one’s own pleasure and personal... Read more

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2023-11-23T09:23:35-05:00

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Does God Save Everyone He Can?

Last updated on: November 23, 2023 at 9:23 am By Roger E. Olson

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Does God Save Everyone He Can? This is a question for Christians and evangelical Christians in particular. A friend recently asked me a theological question. He knows I am a Christian theologian in the evangelical tradition. His question was “Does God save everyone he can?” I don’t recall ever being asked that before, so I reflected on it in the light of scripture, tradition, reason, and experience (the so-called “Wesleyan Quadrilateral”). Many questions must be parsed out and examined in... Read more

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2023-11-20T11:31:56-05:00

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The Upside-Down Kingdom: Chapter 11: Low Is High

Last updated on: November 20, 2023 at 11:31 am By Roger E. Olson

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The Upside-Down Kingdom: Chapter 11: Low Is High According to Donald Kraybill, an Anabaptist theologian, Jesus abolished hierarchy among his followers. And his followers today, the church (the body of Christ and its faithful congregations and organizations) ought to follow his teachings and example about status and power. Kraybill more than amply demonstrates this in Chapter 11. For those of you who read it, I don’t need to quote from it. For those of you who did not read it,... Read more

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2023-11-18T10:06:23-05:00

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Should Christians Practice Yoga?

Last updated on: November 18, 2023 at 10:06 am By Roger E. Olson

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Should Christians Practice Yoga? The question came to my mind when I saw that a pre-school operated by a Methodist church is teaching “Yoga for Children.” Of course, I’ve thought about yoga many time before. I have never practiced yoga and would not. I believe yoga is intrinsically linked with Hindu beliefs—no matter how hard some might try to secularize or even Christianize it. Here I find myself uncomfortably in agreement with many fundamentalist and conservative evangelical Christians with whom... Read more

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