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January 2022

January 13, 2022
There may be fewer richer moments, in our current time, than hearing an evangelical lecture...

December 2021

December 22, 2021
In St. Luke’s Gospel we read: My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices...
December 10, 2021
What do Protestants in general, specifically fundamentalists/evangelicals, mean when they speak of the sufficiency of...

November 2021

November 06, 2021
For at least the last 10 years or so, the decisions and behaviors of a...

October 2021

October 16, 2021
This trend has been long in the making but it was amplified by the advent...
October 01, 2021
What do Christian fundamentalists/evangelicals feel is a key distinctive of their tradition or understanding of...

September 2021

September 10, 2021
Many Christians seem to believe in a concept of “freedom” that is more modern, Western,...

August 2021

August 26, 2021
I know what you’re thinking. How does something like this happen? Well, how much time...
August 08, 2021
Although purely anecdotal, I remember witnessing a strange dynamic in my fundamentalist/evangelical days as to...

July 2021

July 25, 2021
I think I’ve mentioned this book before, but I finally got around to finishing it....

June 2021

June 26, 2021
I’m no expert on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and I doubt the reader is either....
June 01, 2021
On May 15, 1957, evangelist Billy Graham preached for the first time at Madison Square...

May 2021

May 19, 2021
Because I’m a masochist and glutton for punishment, every now and then I peruse The...
May 07, 2021
If one grew up in especially a Calvinist strain of fundamentalism/evangelicalism, they at some time...

April 2021

April 23, 2021
I doubt anyone prefers being literally homeless. Most of us probably don’t like it metaphorically...
April 08, 2021
It’s amazing to me. For some reason, when it comes to the internet and social...

March 2021

March 29, 2021
I came across these three words (“anarchy of charity”) while re-reading David Bentley Hart’s seminal...
March 19, 2021
Consider the evangelical who has fallen into the GQP, right-wing, conspiracy-minded, Trump worship of the...
March 15, 2021
From here we read: “In contrast, whenever the New Testament speaks of the universality of...
March 06, 2021
In regard to our present moment, when it comes to white evangelicalism and the political,...

February 2021

February 18, 2021
What are we to make of these reports: see here and here? What does it...
February 06, 2021
This post is for those white evangelicals out there who are conflicted. They are politically...

January 2021

January 24, 2021
Some conservative evangelicals and other voices are trying to blame the last four years of...
January 14, 2021
I don’t remember where I heard or read it, but I do recall the rumor...
January 09, 2021
What we saw on January 6, 2021 lumbering from the President’s Park South toward the...

December 2020

December 23, 2020
Consider Luke 13: 22-30   22 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and...
December 15, 2020
I remember at least one pastor telling me the reason he practiced expository preaching was...
December 03, 2020
Doug Wilson is an odd duck. He’s sort of a cross between Hillbilly Elegy and...

November 2020

November 25, 2020
I do believe in hell. I just don’t believe in hell, the way most Christians,...
November 10, 2020
Well, that was interesting. I realized when listening to passionate Trump supporters and Biden supporters,...
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