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May 2023

May 03, 2023

Tucker Carlson: A Prophet for Our Times?

I admit, suggesting Tucker Carlson is a "Prophet for our Times" is a fairly "click-baity"...

April 2023

April 28, 2023

Dennis Prager and Matt Fradd on Pornography & Lust

Read Time: 15 minutes Recently, two of my favorite cultural commentators, Dennis Prager (a *conservative...

April 14, 2023

Outsourcing The Family: How The Church Is Handing Over Its Authority to Government

Read Time: 15 minutes To say Protestant churches in America have lost their way is...

April 05, 2023

This Easter, Choose Resurrection Life Over The Culture of Death

As we enter into Easter week, my exhortation to all who read these words is...

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 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 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 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 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...

November 2022

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 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...

November 07, 2022

The Anti-Human Obsession of Progressive Christianity

This is a Guest Post by my friend and colleague Logan Zeppieri. Logan holds an MA in...

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...

September 2022

September 12, 2022

What Should Christians Study?: Part 4 – Spiritual Formation

One fundamental element of Christian discipleship is the pursuit of sacred knowledge. We might say...

August 2022

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 15, 2022

Should Evangelicals Have Children? (Part 3): On Self-Regard

In this series, I have argued it is bad for committed Christian couples to intentionally...

August 12, 2022

Should Evangelicals Have Children? (Part 2): On Selfishness

In my first post, I mentioned what inspired this series-- me becoming aware of a...

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,...

August 04, 2022

White Evangelicals, Stupidity And The Hope Of “Black Christian Nationalism”

Too many white, evangelical leaders have bought into a lie. The lie being that Christian...

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...