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July 2022

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...

July 07, 2022

“Overturned”: Roe v. Wade And The Conservative Beachhead

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

July 01, 2022

More Reflections on Abortion: Agape, Eros and Our Desperate Pursuit of Bodily Pleasure

In a profound yet enigmatic book, Christ and Culture, theologian Graham Ward makes an incisive...

June 2022

June 27, 2022

A Few Thoughts On Roe v. Wade: Seinfeld, Moral Attitudes and Giving Moral Praise

There is a scene from an old Seinfeld episode, one of the few Seinfeld episodes I remember, that...

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,"...

May 2022

May 27, 2022

Remaking Civilization, Part 2: Recapturing Intrinsic Value

In the previous post in this series, I argued there are three fundamental aspects of...

May 04, 2022

Tim Keller and the Evangelical Elite: Where Are Their Minds?

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

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 14, 2022

Is Christianity Abusive?: The Claim of “Spiritual Trauma” and Religiously Induced PTSD

Recently I have seen on social media a certain kind of claim being made. The...

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...

March 09, 2022

Are We All Vladimir Putin?

During major human tragedies I often look at local news stories. Right now the world's...

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....

March 03, 2022

Rethinking “Thoughts and Prayers” For The Ukraine

Over the last week politicians and pundits across the globe, some religious some not, have...

February 2022

February 23, 2022

Four Moral Battles Worth Fighting: Number 3 – Defending the Unborn

In this series I am addressing four prominent and urgent moral battles of our times....

February 14, 2022

Four Moral Battles Worth Fighting: Number 2 – Fighting LGBTQ Ideology

In this series I am taking a firm stance on four moral battles of our...

February 07, 2022

Four Moral Battles Worth Fighting: Number 1 – COVID Totalitarianism

In attempting to survey the cultural landscape in which the church resides with as much...

February 04, 2022

The Stupidity of Self-Actualization And How To Get Truly Woke

Arrogance and stupidity often go hand in hand. I, for one, should know this better...

January 2022

January 26, 2022

Airing Dirty Laundry: “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill”

I became an evangelical Christian at the age of 34 while serving in the Army....

January 20, 2022

As The “Nuclear” Family Goes, So Goes God?

Let's compare two contemporary views on the nature of the family. The first is that...

January 07, 2022

“His Blood Cries Out From the Ground!”: Climate Change And Moral Corruption

In ancient Hebrew thought, the health of the earth itself was intimately connected to the...

January 03, 2022

Some Good (White) People In Africa

In Igbo Jurisprudence: An African Philosophy of Law, Nkuzi Michael Nnam briefly mentions two examples of...

December 2021

December 31, 2021

Moral Decision Making and The Fear of the Lord: Part 4 – Acts of Seduction

In this series I have looked at some common starting points from which we, as...

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....

December 22, 2021

Moral Decision Making and The Fear of the Lord: Part 2 – Acts of Fraud

In this series I am arguing that the right starting point for any moral decision...

December 20, 2021

Moral Decision Making and The Fear of the LORD: Part 1 – Acts of Fear

In Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity, moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre says this about making moral...

December 13, 2021

On Not Doing Evil So That Good May Come: The Martyrdom of Franz Jäggerstätter

8 und nicht vielmehr also tun, wie wir gelästert werden und wie etliche sprechen, daß wir...

December 06, 2021

LGBTQ+ And The Search for The Infinite God

The LGBTQ+ movement, a political agenda which derives its intellectual framework from "Queer Theory," is...

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...