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November 2022

November 05, 2022

The Problem with False Equivalency Claims

One of the common claims I see made on the left is false equivalency. For...

June 2022

June 28, 2022

Religious Liberty and the Supreme Court

So now that the SC religious liberty cases have been decided, it is time to...

May 2022

May 06, 2022

Did the Media Make Donald Trump?

This is a guest editorial by Rachel Suffern. Enjoy it as I find it insightful....

January 2022

January 17, 2022

Breaking up Fights and Race Relations

You ever leave a conversation and then wanted to kick yourself because you did not...

December 2021

December 02, 2021

Deconstructionists and Traditionalists: An Analysis and A Prediction.

Much has recently been made about the “deconstruction” of Christianity, particularly conservative Christianity. Most of...

September 2021

September 21, 2021

The Mismeasurements of Christian Nationalism.

Recently there has been a lot of talk about Christian nationalism. This discussion may have...

April 2021

April 19, 2021

The Dangerous World of Kendi’s Antiracism

Last year I wrote an assessment of DiAngelo’s White Fragility. Clearly, I was not very...

December 2020

December 16, 2020

Who is Antiracism for?

I have had a little theory about support for antiracism. My theory is that it...

October 2020

October 23, 2020

I see nothing, I know nothing!!!

If you recognize that line then you know the show it came from. Hogan’s Heroes...

September 2020

September 29, 2020

The Secret Sauce of Trump

Why is Trump president? That is a serious question for me. I mean I know...

September 05, 2020

No Longer Human

Let’s be honest shall we. There are no heroes in the Kyle Rittenhouse story. If...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

Feel Good or Do Good

I know I have been blogging a lot on race lately. I promise you that...

August 19, 2020

Why we cannot ignore Institutional Racism

As you may have figured out by now, I have been posting a lot on...

August 12, 2020

Throwing Away my Vote

Three years ago, it was immediately clear to me that I could not support Donald...

August 06, 2020

Why Anti-racism is so Popular

Imagine that you are the CEO of a large business or president of a university....

July 2020

July 16, 2020

Not White Fragility, Mutual Responsibility

Watching a country tear itself apart is quite a spectacle. This is the cycle I...

June 2020

June 03, 2020

I’m Tired

I did not want to blog about this. I really wanted the Floyd issue to...

May 2020

May 24, 2020

Church Closings and Church Reopenings

Today many churches are reopening up, probably largely thanks to the comments of President Trump....

May 04, 2020

Privilege in the COVID-19 Era

In our current ongoing discussion of when we should open our society back up, there...

April 2020

April 07, 2020

Battling the Coronavirus

“If we get to the part of the curve where it goes down to essentially...

March 2020

March 24, 2020

Christian Solidarity or Christian Hate?

When I started to present my work on Christianophobia, I ran into a fair amount...

February 2020

February 12, 2020

Super Bowl Halftime Shows, and Moral Authority

Soon after the Super Bowl I posted the following to my facebook page. Evangelicals: That...

January 2020

January 15, 2020

Eddie Murphy, Saturday Night Live and Race Relations

Eddie Murphy is arguably the greatest product of Saturday Night Live. I think of all...

January 03, 2020

Are we Doomed to live in Polarization?

Our polarization has developed to such an extent that we no longer care about qualifications....

December 2019

December 07, 2019

What Impeachment Says About us

I have been watching the impeachment hearings with some degree of internal conflict. On the...

November 2019

November 05, 2019

Christian Politics for a Post-Christian Society

I recently wrote about the possibility that Christians face religious discrimination in the United States....

October 2019

October 01, 2019

Hit them in the Pocketbook

I have been following the University of Iowa all-comers policy case with interest. This was...

September 2019

September 02, 2019

Secularization and the Loss of Community

A couple of articles caught my attention over the past couple of weeks. The first...

August 2019

August 07, 2019

Mass Shootings and Polarization

Last Sunday in church I began to have thoughts I had not had before. I...

July 2019

July 22, 2019

Rejecting Christian Refugees.

Did you catch this story from a while back? Apparently an Iranian national was rejected...