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August 2017

August 25, 2017

A Scholar on Why Evangelicals Love Trump: Not Abortion, but Racism

While many of Trump's advisory board members (business, arts) jumped ship following his (widely perceived...

June 2017

June 09, 2017

“Might Makes Right”: How Evangelicals Can Still Support Trump

When Donald Trump needs a hug, he can count on conservative, white evangelicals. Yesterday he...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

The Fundamentalist Heresy: Jesus was a Superhuman Person

I haven't blogged much lately. The reason for that is I've been finishing a draft...

January 2017

January 20, 2017

The Inauguration of the Gold-Crowned Jesus

With the inauguration of Donald Trump, the Religious Right hopes for a "new Jesus movement."...

January 05, 2017

“True Truth” isn’t the Answer to “Post-Truth”

We're living in a post-truth society now, they say. This is what all those conservative...

December 2016

December 22, 2016

Is Evangelicalism Now Just Right-Wing Politics in Religious Garb?

For those of you brave souls, crying out in the wilderness, who still want to...

December 15, 2016

Inerrancy: A “Comforting Gauze that Conceals Ugliness” (Worthen)

Here's Molly Worthen, writing about the conflict over biblical authority, and in particular the doctrine...

December 01, 2016

What do you Get When You Scratch a Neo-Evangelical?

Molly Worthen's The Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism, is a...

October 2016

October 26, 2016

Evangelicals, Trump, and the “Politics of Apocalypse”

What's up with those evangelicals? Is it the end of the world? Matthew Sutton's...

October 03, 2016

If There’s a Future for Progressive Evangelicalism, it’s Somewhere in this Book

Evangelicalism is slowly changing. But you have to look very closely. That 'close looking' is...

August 2016

August 11, 2016

The Mantra “Conservative Theology Grows Churches” Doesn’t Work Anymore

I was raised conservative evangelical (Southern Baptist). I went to a conservative evangelical seminary. If...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

The Problem with “Biblical Morality” (and a Better Approach)

These days, an otherwise unknown country clerk, Kim Davis, gets front-page news attention for defying...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

How Fundamentalists View Scripture (Via Donald Bloesch)

As a follow up to my post last week on the question, "Did Jesus believe...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

Will Progressive Christianity Be More Evangelical?

These are interesting days for American Christianity. We appear to be in the midst of...

July 28, 2015

Five Problems Raised by the Collision of Science and Scripture (Leaving Evangelicalism #7)

This is the seventh post in a series of a series I have been writing...

July 16, 2015

The Trouble with Women in the Church (Leaving Evangelicalism #6)

This is the sixth post of a series I will be writing over the next...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

The Danger of Asking Hard Questions: Tom Oord, J.R. Daniel Kirk, and Evangelical Anxiety

It's a dangerous time to be a progressive thinker in an Evangelical institution these days....

June 09, 2015

Jesus Didn’t Just Die for Your Sins (Leaving Evangelicalism #4)

This is the fourth post of a series I will be writing over the next...

June 01, 2015

The Village Church Debacle and The Evangelical Trifecta: Moralism, Patriarchy, Inerrancy

Last week, the Daily Beast published a thorough summary of the Village Church debacle/scandal/tragedy (written...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

Leaving Evangelicalism, Checking in (Nearly) Halfway

Last week, I published the third of a seven-part series which I've called "Leaving Evangelicalism."...

May 21, 2015

Christian Universalism: Or, What if God Gets What God Wants? (Leaving Evangelicalism #3)

This is the third post of a series I will be writing over the next...

May 13, 2015

Five Metaphors for a Constructive Approach to Scripture: Responding to Scot McKnight

I appreciate Scot McKnight taking the time to engage my recent post on inerrancy (See...

May 07, 2015

Seven Problems with Inerrancy (Leaving Evangelicalism, #2)

This is the second post of a series I will be writing over the next...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Beyond Certainty (Leaving Evangelicalism)

This is the second post of a series I will be writing over the next...

April 29, 2015

Book Notice: A Future for American Evangelicalism

Readers will be aware that I have just begun a blog series describing my theological...

April 28, 2015

Leaving Evangelicalism, #1a: The Foundations Are Breaking Up

This is the first post of a series I will be writing over the next...

April 20, 2015

My Journey Through Evangelicalism (and Seven Reasons I Left)

I have decided to write a series of posts in which I explain my own...

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