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April 2025

April 06, 2025
On Being Counter-Cultural Growing up in the evangelical/Southern Baptist world, which was mostly fundamentalist then,...

February 2025

February 04, 2025
Anglican theologian and New Testament scholar N.T. Wright notes this fact: "By the end of...

December 2024

December 14, 2024
If you grew up in the evangelical/fundamentalist world of the 70s, 80s, or 90s, and...

October 2024

October 29, 2024
The upcoming election is not primarily a choice between a democrat and a republican, a...

September 2024

September 09, 2024
This just in—read all about it: Notorious con-man, person of questionable character, honesty, ethics, and...

July 2024

July 20, 2024
Since the attempted assassination of former President Trump, there has been much talk of God’s...
July 07, 2024
In the book of 1 Samuel, chapter 8, we read of Israel’s cry for a...

May 2024

May 25, 2024
Unless one has been living under a rock (a mercy for sure right now), they...

January 2024

January 14, 2024
I have two primary conceptions of the secular in the sense of a space. First,...

November 2023

November 18, 2023
We knew Trump had an authoritarian bent when he first ran for the presidency and...

September 2023

September 04, 2023
Not only are religious leaders/pastors/theologians learning they are losing members, especially young people, along comes...

July 2023

July 19, 2023
Is the currently released movie Sound of Freedom based on a true story? Yes. Is...

April 2023

April 17, 2023
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love...

March 2023

March 29, 2023
We are coming to the end of March, which happens to be Oscar month. For...

February 2023

February 07, 2023
The next bogeyman the leaders of the white fundamentalist-evangelical world are ready to foist upon...

December 2022

December 19, 2022
When I read stories like this one, it leads me as a Christian to this...

November 2022

November 08, 2022
I want to speak to a certain type of evangelical pastor. This pastor spends a...

September 2022

September 16, 2022
There are times when it is prudent and wise to say things like, “Yes, I...

August 2022

August 24, 2022
Correct, that title was mostly to get your attention. Yes, hate is a strong word...

July 2022

July 17, 2022
Absolutely they should. I suspect some of you, to that answer, may be thinking or...
July 09, 2022
I’m reluctant to comment on the recent Supreme Court ruling, wherein both Roe and Casey...

June 2022

June 26, 2022
As I’ve stated before, I was raised up in Southern Baptist churches, the convention (SBC),...
June 16, 2022
On February 17, 2015, three teen-age girls made their way through Gatwick Airport in London...
June 04, 2022
I came across the following social media meme, you know, those pithy comments or reflections...

May 2022

May 26, 2022
Anyone aware of my personal story knows that before leaving the fundamentalist/evangelical world, I was...
May 10, 2022
At the top of her fame, Roseanne Barr once infamously remarked that she was America’s...

March 2022

March 30, 2022
What do you do in a pandemic? You write a book. A compilation really. If...
March 23, 2022
If the Bible didn’t exist as we know it, would Jesus cease to exist? I...
March 07, 2022
The Eastern Orthodox began this last Sunday what they call the season of Great Lent,...

February 2022

February 15, 2022
The current evangelical-fundamentalist hysterics over deconstruction is disappointing but hardly surprising. Like Critical Race Theory...
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