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September 2021

September 19, 2021

Ed Litton’s Little White-Collar Lies

Southern Baptist Convention president Ed Litton resurfaced on Twitter this past week after the release...

August 2021

August 30, 2021

Dan Darling and the Poisoned COVID Discourse

Last week, National Religious Broadcasters caused a stir by allegedly firing spokesman Dan Darling for...

August 22, 2021

Josh Harris and the Slough of “Deconstruction”

I am definitely not the target audience for The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill,...

July 2021

July 29, 2021

What Happened to David French?

For months, now going on years, I've been trying not to talk about David French....

July 07, 2021

What Did C. S. Lewis Really Think About Homosexuality?

There has been a stir in recent days around the Presbyterian Church in America's latest...

June 2021

June 02, 2021

Steve Skojec, Christian Apologetics, and the Problem of Faith

Full disclosure: I am a Protestant, and as such I am on the outside looking...

May 2021

May 10, 2021

Tom Holland Asks the Right Questions About the Bible

For long-time fans of the Unbelievable? radio show, the evolution of the program has been...

April 2021

April 28, 2021

Jordan Peterson and Michael Shermer Muddle Through the Resurrection

[Obligatory shilling: I now have a Substack. If you'd like to read my writing ad-free,...

April 17, 2021

What We’ve Learned From GraceLife Baptist Church

[Update, 4/19: I include a link to a site raising questions about a double standard...

March 2021

March 19, 2021

I’m an Evangelist. We Must Think (and Feel) Our Way Out of This Mess.

Coming up on a month ago, I read a piece that bugged me. Had I...

February 2021

February 17, 2021

Ravi Zacharias, Rich Mullins, and a Ragamuffin Legacy

Like most people following the Ravi Zacharias scandal, I knew the full report of his...

January 2021

January 14, 2021

A Patriot’s Lament, a Conservative’s Hope

After last week's madness, I had some thought of banging out a Take within a...

January 04, 2021

The Divided Man: What We Can Learn From Ravi Zacharias

Like many people in my circles, I've been watching with a sinking sadness in recent...

October 2020

October 31, 2020

How Now Shan’t We Vote?

As usual, I am coming late to the take game on this topic, perhaps the...

October 23, 2020

Til We (Don’t) Have Face(mask)s

Picture this: Your wife of two decades has just filed for divorce. You've battled lifelong...

August 2020

August 08, 2020

Jerry Falwell’s Fall Puts Fundamentalism in a New Light

2020 continues not to disappoint, as Liberty University recently announced that Jerry Falwell, Jr. would...

June 2020

June 20, 2020

Christians Must Resist Woke Gaslighting

Christian media has been abuzz in recent days over a three-way “conversation on race” including Chick-fil-A CEO...

June 16, 2020

Bostock Tells Christian Conservatives What We Already Knew

This week's 6-3 SCOTUS ruling to make sexual minorities a protected class has come as...

March 2020

March 13, 2020

As Schools Close, Stay-At-Home Parents Should Count Their Blessings

K-12 school closures around the country have inspired a plethora of memes and satire pieces...

February 2020

February 19, 2020

5 Lessons From Rhett and Link’s Spiritual Deconstruction

The evangelical blogosphere has been buzzing with the latest sad tale of lost faith to...

December 2019

December 27, 2019

My Friend the Gay Humanist

Update: This post was written before our dialogue was released. You can now enjoy it...

December 15, 2019

Advent in Nigeria

For Christians mindful of the Church year, Advent is to Christmas as Lent is to...

November 2019

November 23, 2019

Yes, You Should Be Angry At Chick-fil-A

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Chick-fil-A is no stranger to outrage and controversy, but...

August 2019

August 05, 2019

The Boys Are Not All Right

No words will suffice but "good" and "evil." No language will suffice but the language...

June 2019

June 15, 2019

6 Lies Christian Apologists Shouldn’t Buy

I've occasionally been described by people slightly familiar with my work as an "evangelical apologist."...

May 2019

May 25, 2019

Jordan Peterson and the Unbearable Task

It's not every day that a man confesses his sins on Twitter, but I saw...

May 17, 2019

Towards a Balanced View of Christian Womanhood

Christian social media has been buzzing of late with a fierce renewal of the long-standing...

April 2019

April 21, 2019

Jordan Peterson and the Case of the Empty Tomb

Originally published at Premier Christian Radio's Unbelievable The future Bishop of Edinburgh was having a...

March 2019

March 29, 2019

Jordan Peterson at Liberty and A Cry For Help

I'm not sure what people were expecting from Dr. Jordan Peterson's recent appearance at Liberty...

March 26, 2019

The Christian and the Atheist Should Be Friends

A couple weeks ago, a Christian friend and I did something some other Christians might...