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January 2023

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 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...

October 2022

October 27, 2022

Are Christians and Born Again Christians The Same Thing?

Are Christians and "Born Again" Christians the same thing? Well, the straight forward and simple...

September 2022

September 30, 2022

Recovering From a Heart Attack (Conclusion): Giving Thanks & What Will Change?

This is the final post in a series about my recent heart attack and quadruple...

August 2022

August 26, 2022

What Should Christians Study?: Part 1 – Theology

There are many specific areas of knowledge relevant to the study of God, God's creation,...

August 19, 2022

Why It’s Good To Be Unappreciated

Never and nowhere has it been claimed that living an authentically Christian life will lead...

August 07, 2022

Should Evangelicals Have Children? (Part 1): On Sacrifice

When this month's "Topics To Write About" list for Patheos authors arrived in my inbox,...

July 2022

July 25, 2022

Aliens, UFOs and The Bible

There are few things that give me serious pause when it comes to understanding reality...

July 22, 2022

Christianity and Pagan Knowledge: Three Approaches

In the history of the Christian Church, there are roughly three kinds of people to...

July 15, 2022

Dead Christians Are of No Value To The Devil: Reflections On Joseph, Propaganda and The Church

A dead Christian is of no value to the Devil. Only a Christian who is...

June 2022

June 02, 2022

Remaking Civilization, Part 3: The Need To Live In the Past

In this series I have argued there are three, fundamental truths about reality we must...

May 2022

May 13, 2022

Remaking Civilization: Part 1 – The Necessity of Hierarchy

At the heart of the biblical view of reality are three deep and abiding claims...

May 02, 2022

When Enemies Attack: Lessons from The Book of Nehemiah

When God anoints a man or a woman to do a great work, there will...

April 2022

April 22, 2022

The First Temptation(s) Of Christ: The Temptation of the Eyes

In this series I have looked at each of Jesus' temptations in the wilderness. First...

April 01, 2022

The First Temptation(s) of Christ: The Trial of The Ego

In this short series I am looking at the three temptations of Christ as recorded...

March 2022

March 18, 2022

The First Temptation(s) of Christ: The Trial of the Body

In this short series I am looking at the wilderness temptations of Jesus, who is...

March 14, 2022

The First Temptation(s) of Christ: The Test of Waiting

In this short series I am looking at the first temptations of Christ (that we...

December 2021

December 27, 2021

Moral Decision Making and The Fear of the Lord: Part 3 – Love of Money

In this series I am looking at some common starting points for making moral decisions....

September 2021

September 13, 2021

Eros, Agape and Why We Cannot Love Well

In an incisive, albeit slightly esoteric, essay entitled "The Schizoid Christ," theologian Graham Ward criticizes...

July 2021

July 12, 2021

Having WAY Too Much Stuff and What To Do About It

There is an excellent scene at the very end of the academy-award winning war film,...

July 09, 2021

The Task of Theology: Do We Speak Well of God?

A few years back I heard theologian Kevin Vanhoozer describe the task of theology very...

June 2021

June 28, 2021

God’s Wrath and Other People’s Sins

In a sinful world, one reality particularly hard to digest is when innocent people are...