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January 2026

January 24, 2026

Moral Combat: Critical Theory versus Christianity

Okay, let's clarify a few things about Critical Theory, a topic I have written on...

February 2024

February 27, 2024

He Gets Us and The Problem of Christian Propaganda

In my last post, I discussed what I believe to be the theological view of...

February 23, 2024

The Black Panthers vs. MLK: What Is Our Highest Good?

This week, I happened to read two different articles in my news feed about how...

August 2023

August 28, 2023

Postmodern Literature | A Writer’s Perspective

My first run-in with postmodern literature was back in college. During my writing undergrad, I'd...

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...

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...

October 2022

October 17, 2022

Race, Sex and Social Justice: The Impact of Herbert Marcuse in America

It seems redundant to point out that with every cry of racial injustice and every...

October 12, 2022

20 Common Sense Truths People Hate

Recently Jordan Peterson interviewed Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft. Kreeft is one of the wisest voices in American...

October 03, 2022

Do We Need A New Apologetic?: Responding to the New Paganism

Since the late 17th century, the defense of the Christian faith has primarily been made...

July 2022

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...

July 11, 2022

What’s Really Killing The Evangelical Church: Ambition and The American Dream

"Grabbing for the gold (brass) ring," has always sounded very American. The idea of unbounded...

May 2022

May 19, 2022

“Whiteness” and The Splitting of the Evangelical Mind

I am digressing from a series of posts to discuss something I think is rather obvious about...

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...

April 2022

April 18, 2022

Critical Freedom: Critical Theory and The Messianic Light

Karl Marx, the great prophet of liberation for modern man, considered man's alienation inextricably connected...

March 2022

March 07, 2022

Four Moral Battles Worth Fighting: Number 4 – Critical Social Justice

There are four moral battles that the Church today must fight, and fight without ceasing....

November 2021

November 12, 2021

Critical Theory and Classic Christianity: Are They Compatible?

In this interview with Jason Rennie at The Apologia Project, we talk in depth about...

October 2021

October 29, 2021

Reconstructing Humanity – Part 4: The Crushing Burden of Guilt

In this series I've been arguing that there are features of daily life which remind...

October 25, 2021

Reconstructing Humanity – Part 3: Facing And Overcoming Fear

In this series I am looking at how human beings share a human nature, a...

October 20, 2021

Reconstructing Humanity – Part 2: What is Human Identity?

In this series I am looking at the act of deconstruction and juxtaposing it against...

October 15, 2021

Reconstructing Humanity – Part 1: What are Deconstruction Stories?

There is a lot of talk today in the popular culture and the culture's popular...

September 2021

September 24, 2021

Resentment and Her Children: The Emotional Heart of Critical Theory

Critical Theories, and most prominently Critical Race Theory, are, on the one hand, sophisticated intellectual...

July 2021

July 30, 2021

CRT and The Return to the Old Gods: Part II – A New (Old) Religion?

Recently, Cameron Hilditch wrote an article in National Review highlighting the work of Christoper Rufo. Rufo's...

July 26, 2021

CRT and The Return to the Old Gods: Part I – Rejecting Reason

In a previous post, I discussed three features of Critical Race Theory that should encourage...

July 23, 2021

Angela Harris and C.S. Lewis on Identity and Liberation

Critical race scholar Angela Harris opens her seminal essay, "Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal...

July 07, 2021

Reengineering Society: Is Critical Race Theory Aiming for Our Children?

On 6-26-2021 I spoke with Dr. Harry Edwards and Dr. Jacob Daniel on the use...

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...

June 14, 2021

Three Features of CRT That Hurt Us (Part 3): Moral Legalism

In the first two posts of this series I argued that Critical Race Theory (CRT)...

June 11, 2021

Three Features of CRT That Hurt Us (part 2): Pure Politics

In the previous post, I claimed there are three core features of Critical Race Theory...

June 07, 2021

Three Features of CRT and How They Harm Society (Part 1)

Critical Race Theory now pervades almost every corner of American society. It is in schools,...

June 03, 2021

Institutionalizing Love: Social Justice as the New Law of Love

In his seminal analysis on the rise and dominance of secularism in the West, A...