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September 2025

September 10, 2025

The Final Turning Point: On The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

Update (9/15/2025 1:55 pm PST): This will be the final update to this post. According...

September 10, 2025

The Two Faces of Evil: On Magical and Mechanical Power

One of the most memorable scenes in the Star Wars mythology occurs between Admiral Motti...

April 2024

April 12, 2024

Why the Conquest of Canaan was Just

In the last few posts I have offered a defense of the "literal view" of...

April 03, 2024

The Canaanite Conquest and The Corporate Nature of Sin

In this series, I have been defending a literalist view of the Israelites' conquest of...

March 2024

March 29, 2024

The Conquest of Canaan: How Sin Pollutes the Land

In my last article, I addressed a recent controversy that broke about Israel's conquest of...

March 26, 2024

William Lane Craig and The Canaanite Genocide

Recently, an online debate flared up regarding the biblical conquest of the Canaanites, or what...

November 2023

November 01, 2023

Why Do Our Kids Love Hamas?: Stupidity, Boredom and The Embrace of Evil

Across the country, especially on university campuses, Americans are witnessing a growing sympathy for what...

September 2023

September 25, 2023

Pulled through Fire: How I Almost Died but Jesus Rescued Me

I never acted out much when I was a kid. I never smoked, drank, or...

August 2023

August 30, 2023

Why They Want to Kill My Friend

At a church in Southern California, not far from the U.S.-Mexico border, two Middle Eastern...

July 2023

July 28, 2023

Sound of Freedom: A Politically Incorrect Review

“Never Trust a Pedophile” – Tim Ballard Like most Americans, if you spend little time...

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...

February 2023

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...

January 2023

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 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...

September 2022

September 23, 2022

Recovering From A Heart Attack (Part 3): The Mercy of God & Demons Next Door

It has often been said that the greatest apologetic for the truth of the Christian...

September 16, 2022

Recovering From A Heart Attack (Part 1): When God Takes You On A “Detour”

A note to my readers: This next series will cover some personal ground. In my...

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 24, 2022

The Overwhelming Of The Evangelical Mind: Information and The Soul’s Limits

In a previous post, I wrote that the Evangelical mind was being split apart. This...

March 2022

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 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....

January 2022

January 14, 2022

Living in An “On Demand” World: Instant Gratification and The Perseverance of the Saints

The idea of instant gratification consumes our culture. The main reason for this is relatively...

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 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...

November 2021

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 15, 2021

Becoming Evil: Dorian Gray And The Prospect of Eternal Hell

In a previous post, I recounted a true story of real evil. The story was...

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...

October 2021

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...

September 2021

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...