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July 2021

July 07, 2021

Dunning-Kruger, Cultural Amnesia, and Tyrannosaurus rex

The Dunning-Kruger effect (famously described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger) is the...

February 2020

February 04, 2020

Okay, Doomer

Two of my best friends and I have an informal liturgy: whenever we go camping,...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

Humanae Vitae’s Vital Insight for Evangelicals

It’s become the norm for married couples the age of my wife and I to...

April 2018

April 09, 2018

Biblical Illiteracy Isn’t Funny, It’s Scary

Last week biblical illiteracy in the news media was put on display like never before....

April 02, 2018

Post-Pascha Reminder: Easter Is Not a Pagan Holiday

It's Eastertide (it's not just one day!) and if you know an evangelical Baby Boomer...

March 2018

March 07, 2018

Why Every Villain Speech Is a Paraphrase of Nietzsche

I'm reading (and thoroughly enjoying) Benjamin Wiker's "10 Books that Screwed Up the World (And...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

Billy Graham Came Just As He Was

Yesterday, Billy Graham finished his course on this earth full of years—ninety-nine to be exact....

November 2017

November 07, 2017

Should Christians Carry Guns in Church?

Is it okay for Christians to bring weapons into church for self-defense?

November 02, 2017

‘It’s the Current Year!’ Is Not a Good Argument

You'll frequently hear people these days say, "It's 2017!" as an argument for abandoning some...

October 2017

October 04, 2017

‘Scripture Alone’ Does Not Mean What You Think It Means

Have evangelicals taken sola scriptura too far?

September 2017

September 14, 2017

On Living As if God Is Real

Martin Luther, the tortured and guilty soul that he was, took God seriously in a...

August 2017

August 16, 2017

Want to Fuel the Alt-Right? Tear Down More Statues

Left-wing vigilantism directed at a statue is exactly the kind of thing that fuels the...

May 2017

May 25, 2017

How Should We Understand the Left?

The progressive project is pure utopianism. You won't understand anything or anyone on the left...

April 2017

April 13, 2017

On Holidays and Calvinist Curmudgeons

Reformed Christianity can seem sharply divided and at times schizophrenic on the issue of holidays...

April 06, 2017

Should Christians Eat the Passover Seder? A Response to Christianity Today

Rabbis Yehiel Poupko and David Sandmel have an interesting piece in Christianity Today entitled, "Jesus...

April 05, 2017

AP Forgot the Resurrection – The Point

It’s time for remedial Christianity 101. Mainstream newspapers and networks are clumsy when it comes to...

March 2017

March 22, 2017

Paper-Thin Propaganda – The Point

Who thought up this advertising campaign? Brawny paper towels has launched a new “Strength Has No...

March 19, 2017

Conservatives: Beware Reverse-Chronological Snobbery

We've all seen it. A progressive and a conservative are crossing swords on some subject...

March 06, 2017

Davenant House: Retrieving the Reformation in the South Carolina Foothills

I've long been intrigued by the idea of a place where Christians can go to...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

‘Is Genesis History?’ Is Not Your Dad’s Creationist Documentary

The very word "creationism" elicits mockery, even from Christians. As a shorthand for "young-Earth" or "young-age...

February 17, 2017

Baptists Shouldn’t Apologize for Supporting Religious Freedom for Muslims

Religious freedom for me, but not for thee. That was the message members of the...

January 2017

January 23, 2017

Sea World Is a Victim of Its Own Success, and So Is Christianity

(Originally published at BreakPoint.org) What can the slow-motion death of Sea World teach us about...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

If You’re Going to Condemn the Reformation, Do It Like a Man

"Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a...

October 24, 2016

Halloween and the Aesthetic of Evil

A while back, my friend Steven Wedgeworth wrote an outstanding essay over at The Calvinist...

October 07, 2016

Empty Buildings, Empty Faith: ‘Lifestyle Christianity’ Has Been Tried and Failed

It’s tough to express how strange it is seeing pastors and columnists hawk theological liberalism...

August 2016

August 05, 2016

14 Reasons Why Christianity Is True (Guest Post)

My friend, Seraphim Hamilton, has prepared an outstanding list of reasons he believes in Christianity--not...