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March 2023

March 31, 2023

Tucker, Transgenderism and the Church

Read Time: 12 minutes In a recent segment, Tucker Carlson, someone who needs no qualifying...

March 30, 2023

The Faith of Our Founders: Natural Law and What Made America Great

What was the faith of America’s founding fathers? While most of the founders were personally...

March 22, 2023

The 5 Best Christian Movies Of All Time (# 2 and # 1)

Read Time: 10 minutes In this series, I am reviewing the 5 best Christian movies...

March 16, 2023

The 5 Best Christian Movies of All Time (Tied for #3)

In this series, I am reviewing 5 great Christian films (the 5 best that I...

March 10, 2023

The 5 Best Christian Movies Of All Time (# 5 and # 4)

Read Time: 10 minutes We live in a world dominated by artistic representations of reality,...

March 06, 2023

Polygamy in America?: A Warning From Jacob and His Children

Read Time: 15 minutes As moral thought and action continue to corrode in America, the...

March 01, 2023

Toiling in Obscurity: Working For The Gospel When No One Is Looking

In the most celebrated teaching in all human history, the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus...

February 2023

February 24, 2023

The Most Subtle of All Sins

Read time: 8 minutes Is there a sin more subtle than the rest? A disposition...

February 20, 2023

Is The Asbury “Revival” Real?

Read time: 10 minutes When it comes to the movement of the Spirit of God,...

February 17, 2023

Why Do People Love Marxism (and Marxists)?

Read Time: 15 minutes In the 1997 preface to his classic work on intellectuals and...

February 10, 2023

A Tip For Your Next Small Group Study: Clement of Alexandria’s “Paedagogus”

Read time: 10 minutes Small group studies in American Evangelicalism usually revolve around one or...

February 08, 2023

A Fearful Symmetry: Why We Love That Which Kills Us

Reading time: 15-20 minutes Ezekiel 16 and 23 offer a terrifying account of what seems...

February 06, 2023

Book Review: “Are We Together?” Eduardo Echeverria’s Catholic Analysis of Evangelical Protestants

Eduardo J. Echeverria Are We Together: A Roman Catholic Analyzes Evangelical Protestants Hobe Sound, Florida:...

February 03, 2023

The Tragedy and The Confusion: Tyre Nichols & Two Responses to Human Cruelty

The following weeks will bring numerous commentaries on the killing of Tyre Nichols. It is...

January 2023

January 27, 2023

Hate Speeches: Christians and Nazis Make Strange Bedfellows

In a recent book of devotional prayers composed and compiled by progressive Christian voices, psychologist and...

January 22, 2023

Are You On Mission, Or Just A Trip?

In The Cambridge Guide To Postmodernism, Brian McHale unpacks the idea that there are two contrasting,...

January 18, 2023

Should Christians Use Perfume?

St. Paul wrote the following to the church in Corinth: But thanks be to God,...

January 11, 2023

Is Masturbation Murder?

The first thing to realize before discussing a topic as sensitive as masturbation, especially when...

January 05, 2023

Year in Review 2022: What Did It Mean for Evangelicals?

I am not accustomed to writing "year in review" type articles. The closest I've come...

December 2022

December 26, 2022

What Christmas Is Really About: Part 3(b) – Knowledge and True Belief

In the last article in this series on Christmas, I wrote about some longstanding philosophical...

December 23, 2022

What Christmas Is Really About: Part 3(a) – The Philosophy of Christmas

In the first article in this Christmas series, I argued that Christmas is the Incarnation...

December 19, 2022

What Christmas Is Really About: Part 2 – The Historicity Of Christmas

In the last post, I argued that the true meaning of Christmas is often obscured...

December 16, 2022

What Christmas Is Really About: Part 1 – The Theology of Christmas

What Christmas Is Not About Around this time of year a slew of videos, articles and...

December 12, 2022

The New Apostolic Reformation, A Threat Within The Church?

This is a guest post by my friend and colleague, Douglas Geivett, and his co-author,...

December 09, 2022

Agents of Redemption: An Exercise in Translating Theology

Much of my time is spent reading very difficult texts, usually in the areas of...

December 02, 2022

Tradition & Authority in Protestant and Catholic Theology (Part II): Problems

In the last post, I tried to provide a fair outline of the Roman Catholic...

November 2022

November 28, 2022

The Role of Tradition In Catholic and Protestant Theology

There is a long, arduous, historical debate between Protestants and Roman Catholics, and among Protestants...

November 22, 2022

Thanksgiving and America’s Forgotten Sin

As Thanksgiving approaches, it seems appropriate to mention something about food. Thanksgiving was originally established...

November 21, 2022

Using Social Media And Some Ground Rules For Commenting On This Blog

A recent interview Jordan Peterson conducted with Dr. Jean Twenge, an eminent social psychologist, along with...

November 17, 2022

3 (or 4) Types of Anti-Semitism, And Why We Must Fight Them

There is a persistent, historical phenomenon that plagues the western World (and, from time to...