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January 14, 2024
Christian Nationalism Creates the Need for the Secular
I have two primary conceptions of the secular in the sense of a space. First,...
November 2023
November 18, 2023
Evangelicals and Barabbas: Who Will They Choose?
We knew Trump had an authoritarian bent when he first ran for the presidency and...
September 2023
September 04, 2023
More Bad News for Religious Leaders
Not only are religious leaders/pastors/theologians learning they are losing members, especially young people, along comes...
July 2023
July 19, 2023
Does the Movie “Sound of Freedom” Confirm or Bolster QAnon Beliefs?
Is the currently released movie Sound of Freedom based on a true story? Yes. Is...
April 2023
April 17, 2023
Some of the Best Christians I have Known were Atheists
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love...
March 2023
March 29, 2023
White Evangelicals as Scarlett O’Hara
We are coming to the end of March, which happens to be Oscar month. For...
February 2023
February 07, 2023
Pluralism For Me but Not For Thee
The next bogeyman the leaders of the white fundamentalist-evangelical world are ready to foist upon...
December 2022
December 19, 2022
Who Would Jesus Serve?
When I read stories like this one, it leads me as a Christian to this...
November 2022
November 08, 2022
Evangelical Pastors: It’s Cute You Think You’re Disciplining Your People
I want to speak to a certain type of evangelical pastor. This pastor spends a...
September 2022
September 16, 2022
Choosing a Path and Answering the Call
There are times when it is prudent and wise to say things like, “Yes, I...
August 2022
August 24, 2022
Do Evangelicals Hate America?
Correct, that title was mostly to get your attention. Yes, hate is a strong word...
July 2022
July 17, 2022
Should Christians Listen to Secular Music?
Absolutely they should. I suspect some of you, to that answer, may be thinking or...
July 09, 2022
Abortion Ruling Headline: “Dog Catches Car”
I’m reluctant to comment on the recent Supreme Court ruling, wherein both Roe and Casey...
June 2022
June 26, 2022
What Tom Ascol Really Means
As I’ve stated before, I was raised up in Southern Baptist churches, the convention (SBC),...
June 16, 2022
Radicalized Funda-gelicals = January 6th Insurrection
On February 17, 2015, three teen-age girls made their way through Gatwick Airport in London...
June 04, 2022
Appearances Can Be Deceiving
I came across the following social media meme, you know, those pithy comments or reflections...
May 2022
May 26, 2022
The Chickens Come Home
Anyone aware of my personal story knows that before leaving the fundamentalist/evangelical world, I was...
May 10, 2022
Doug Wilson Prefers Cheap Wall Paper
At the top of her fame, Roseanne Barr once infamously remarked that she was America’s...
March 2022
March 30, 2022
Finding Your Feet After Fundamentalism
What do you do in a pandemic? You write a book. A compilation really. If...
March 23, 2022
If The Bible Didn’t Exist—Would Jesus?
If the Bible didn’t exist as we know it, would Jesus cease to exist? I...
March 07, 2022
Lent, Evangelicals, Putin, and Supping with the Devil
The Eastern Orthodox began this last Sunday what they call the season of Great Lent,...
February 2022
February 15, 2022
Deconstruction Isn’t a Fad—It’s Part of the Christian Journey
The current evangelical-fundamentalist hysterics over deconstruction is disappointing but hardly surprising. Like Critical Race Theory...
January 2022
January 13, 2022
What-About-Ism and Other Weak Arguments
There may be fewer richer moments, in our current time, than hearing an evangelical lecture...
December 2021
December 22, 2021
Mary The Pregnant Revolutionary
In St. Luke’s Gospel we read: My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices...
December 10, 2021
The Sufficiency of Scripture Slogan is a Dodge
What do Protestants in general, specifically fundamentalists/evangelicals, mean when they speak of the sufficiency of...
November 2021
November 06, 2021
Evangelicals Should Change Their Name to Religious Neoliberals
For at least the last 10 years or so, the decisions and behaviors of a...
October 2021
October 16, 2021
The Political as Religion
This trend has been long in the making but it was amplified by the advent...
October 01, 2021
Don’t Tell Me You Care About My Soul—When it’s Clear You Don’t Give a Damn About My Body
What do Christian fundamentalists/evangelicals feel is a key distinctive of their tradition or understanding of...
September 2021
September 10, 2021
The Freedom to Harm is Not Freedom—It’s License—It’s Immoral
Many Christians seem to believe in a concept of “freedom” that is more modern, Western,...
August 2021
August 26, 2021
Disciples of Jesus or Ayn Rand and Nietzsche?
I know what you’re thinking. How does something like this happen? Well, how much time...
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