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July 09, 2025

Is USAID Necessary for Salvation?

Recently there has been another wave of what I can only call "irrational thinking" about...

October 2024

October 22, 2024

More Fake Political Umbrage by Evangelical “Leaders”

Yet another group of evangelical "leaders" (whoever anointed them as such, we know not), has...

February 2024

February 23, 2024

The Black Panthers vs. MLK: What Is Our Highest Good?

This week, I happened to read two different articles in my news feed about how...

February 13, 2024

But Do We “Get Him?”: Some Thoughts on #HeGetsUs

Before I wade into the controversy over the #HeGetsUs ad campaign, which ran for its...

December 2023

December 31, 2023

New Year’s Resolution(s) – 10 Things We Want to See in 2024

With each passing year many of us attempt to change some aspect of their lives...

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 22, 2023

What Divides The Left and Right?: America’s Battle over “The Way”

For several decades now, many in America have tried to find the central issue, the...

July 2023

July 31, 2023

When Family Dies: The Demoralization of the West and the End of Culture

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the preeminent Harvard sociologist, Carle C. Zimmerman...

July 28, 2023

Sound of Freedom: A Politically Incorrect Review

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

May 2023

May 19, 2023

5 Dumb Things (Some) Pastors Say

I hate to be the guy who points this out, but we need to do...

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 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...

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 16, 2023

The 5 Best Christian Movies of All Time (Tied for #3)

In this series, I am reviewing 5 great Christian films (the 5 best that I...

February 2023

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 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 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...

December 2022

December 23, 2022

What Christmas Is Really About: Part 3(a) – The Philosophy of Christmas

In the first article in this Christmas series, I argued that Christmas is the Incarnation...

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 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...

August 2022

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...

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 02, 2022

Remaking Civilization, Part 3: The Need To Live In the Past

In this series I have argued there are three, fundamental truths about reality we must...

May 2022

May 19, 2022

“Whiteness” and The Splitting of the Evangelical Mind

I am digressing from a series of posts to discuss something I think is rather obvious about...