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November 2021

November 29, 2021

Christians, Stop Listening to Propaganda!

In a chilling treatise on the nature of propaganda, French sociologist and theologian Jaques Ellul...

November 22, 2021

The Most Important Movie Ever Made and Why You Should Show It At Church

In America today we see the very foundations of morality and law crumbling under our...

November 19, 2021

Dialogue Without End?: The Prideful Doctrine of “Intellectual Humility”

There is a tactic the devil uses to slowly infiltrate and change the people of...

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...

November 08, 2021

Reconstructing Humanity – Part 6: Made To Worship

In this series I have argued there are features that are fundamental to all human...

November 03, 2021

Reconstructing Humanity – Part 5: Longing For Recognition

In this series, I have argued there are shared features among cultures and between individuals...

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 13, 2021

The Embattled Church: Sinners, Saints and Charlatans

Christians worldwide have been devastated recently by many high-profile falls from grace. Revelations of gross...

October 04, 2021

The Beautiful Law Of God

“The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver...

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...

September 17, 2021

10 Questions To Ask Before Doing the Social Justice Thing

"But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream." - Amos 5:4...

September 10, 2021

Was Afghanistan Worth It?: Part 3, “Was it Worth it for Soldiers?”

In his brutally honest treatment of men in war, philosopher and soldier J. Glenn Gray...

September 06, 2021

Was Afghanistan Worth It?: Part 2, “Was It Worth It For Afghans?”

In this series, I am asking the question on many American minds right now: "was...

September 01, 2021

Was Afghanistan Worth It?: Part 1, “Was it Worth it For America?”

Afghanistan is once again newsworthy. To me this is unfortunate (often, from a military perspective,...

August 2021

August 06, 2021

The Destructive Power of Motherly Love

One of the most chilling scenes in fiction is the portrayal of a mother named...

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 19, 2021

Violent People Living in A Virtual World

What does it mean to be "civil" or to live in a "civil society?" There...

July 16, 2021

Living a Life of Grievance Can Lead to A Very Scary Death

I have not seen much death in my life. A few dead bodies in Afghanistan...

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 05, 2021

Lil’ Nax X’s Gift to the Church: Theological Clarity

Recently I wrote about Cardi B.'s smash hit, WAP. There I argued that WAP stands...

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 25, 2021

Of Thugs and Nazis: When False Identities Become True

Update: This article was originally published in June, 2021. However, in light of recent events...

June 18, 2021

Die Another Day: How The Fear of Death Controls Us

As the terror of COVID-19 wanes in the West it seems appropriate to do two...

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 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...

June 01, 2021

What Kind of Creatures Are We?: Finding Dorian Gray In the Heart of Munich

The Portrait of Dorian Gray One of the most terrifying works of art ever conceived...

June 01, 2021

When Evil Comes, Look to The Saintly not the Smart

In times of great evil, we who are average often look to find some guiding...

June 01, 2021

To Have or Not To Have: Possessing Vs. Being in the Christian Life

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat...