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February 2024

February 22, 2024

He Gets Us, Culture Christianity and Propaganda (Part 1)

In my previous post, I argued that there were several fundamental problems with the #HeGetsUs...

November 2023

November 21, 2023

Two Heresies That Never Go Away

It is, or at least should be, a grave responsibility for every pastor, teacher and...

November 17, 2023

Make Room for God

A popular worship song, entitled Make Room encourages believers to surrender, to sacrifice their own...

September 2023

September 30, 2023

Do We Serve a Wrathful God? Why Yes, We Do!

As Christians we have often heard the term “the wrath of God” and, in fact,...

September 19, 2023

Can Theology Liberate Us?: Gustavo Gutierrez and Progressive Christianity (Part 4)

In this article, I conclude my four-part series examining theologians of the 19th and 20th...

September 15, 2023

The Real Reason Why Moses Couldn’t Enter the Promised Land

Recently, while reading a highly regarded commentary on the Book of Numbers, I realized a...

September 05, 2023

The Founding Fathers of Progressive Christianity: Pt. 3 – Von Harnack

This is the third of a four part series in which I explore theologians of...

August 2023

August 25, 2023

The Founding Fathers of Progressive Christianity: Part 2 – Rauschenbusch

This is the second of a four part series in which I explore theologians of...

August 18, 2023

The Founding Fathers of Progressive Christianity: Part 1 – Schleiermacher

This is the first of a four part series in which I will explore theologians...

February 2023

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:...

January 2023

January 18, 2023

Should Christians Use Perfume?

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

December 2022

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 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...

November 11, 2022

What Was The “Original” Original Sin?

What was the first sin? For centuries theologians have wrestled over what constituted Adam and Eve’s...

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...

October 21, 2022

Reading As An Evangelical: How To Cultivate A Christian Mind

In a previous series of posts, I talked about the four, primary domains of Christian...

September 2022

September 09, 2022

What Should Christians Study?: Part 3 – Church History

Continuing in this series on what makes for a robust program of Christian discipleship and...

August 2022

August 29, 2022

What Should Christians Study?: Part 2(a) – Philosophical Apologetics

In this series, I am stepping back to look at the discipline of attaining Christian...

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,...

July 2022

July 22, 2022

Christianity and Pagan Knowledge: Three Approaches

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

June 2022

June 10, 2022

Two Ways of Knowing God: Scholasticism And Mysticism

In his 1930 Church History for "upper high school & college courses and adult reading,"...

December 2021

December 03, 2021

Trying To Be Good Without God, Or Hoping “We Won’t Get Fooled Again”

In his Dialogue with Trypho, the 2nd century Christian apologist, Justin Martyr, summarizes the Christian...

August 2021

August 16, 2021

Losing Orthodox Christianity in America – Losing the Senses

Cardinal Francis George, the former arch-bishop of Chicago, said the following just few years before...

July 2021

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...