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October 2019

October 26, 2019
I’m all for tolerance and civility.  Amen brothers.  However, I’m also for logic, nuance, and...
October 12, 2019
A further thought: I wonder if these types of trends are accelerating due to what...

September 2019

September 24, 2019
According to this article, we are supposedly going to learn “why” this “spat” is “actually”...

August 2019

August 13, 2019
I’ve written before of how evangelicals get upset over the wrong things.  And new examples...
August 03, 2019
If one is a white male, it can be very difficult to understand white privilege...

July 2019

July 16, 2019
I don't know Mark Galli, but I like much of what he writes.  I can’t...

June 2019

June 26, 2019
I haven’t read it, but I love the title of this book.  If some schoolboy...
June 05, 2019
With conferences like this one still in existence, there is no respite for the weary. ...

May 2019

May 18, 2019
With all the recent bills passing state legislatures (by white men primarily) restricting or limiting...
May 06, 2019
I want to take a quick moment, to extend my deepest sympathies and condolences to...

April 2019

April 14, 2019
Growing up in the fundamentalist-evangelical world, along with the fear of a girl’s rejection, test...
April 05, 2019
There is a scene in the Wizard of Oz, at the beginning, when Dorothy has...

March 2019

March 14, 2019
Something I’ve heard most of my life is a sentiment along the lines of, “Government...
March 05, 2019
I came across this recently.  Where to begin.  When I read things like this, I...

February 2019

February 16, 2019
Even though I was born and raised in the Western United States, I grew up...

January 2019

January 31, 2019
We’ve heard of people, or read of people, who have asserted that God chose Trump...
January 18, 2019
Something that has bothered me for some time, even when I was in that world,...
January 01, 2019
What to do when our departures and reversals from prior positions or statements are this...

December 2018

December 21, 2018
I’m not a big believer in the Liberal Democratic Experiment we have been living since...
December 01, 2018
I was brought up to see communism as the brain child of Satan and the...

November 2018

November 19, 2018
Such is the assertion posed in a recent essay published on The Gospel Coalition (TGC)...
November 08, 2018
Since the mid-terms are over, we probably won’t hear much more about the caravan of...

October 2018

October 22, 2018
The dilemma moderate evangelical pastors/leaders find themselves facing is, well, the other evangelicals.  The majority. ...
October 13, 2018
Too much ink has already been spilled and key strokes manipulated regarding the Kavanaugh appointment,...

September 2018

September 29, 2018
Being, “counter-cultural” is a buzz-word thrown around in fundamentalist/evangelical circles--many circles in fact.  Or, it...
September 17, 2018
As I’ve written before, I like and respect the President of Gateway Seminary, Dr. Jeff...
September 07, 2018
There is no other gospel, but a social justice gospel.  Any other type would be...

August 2018

August 31, 2018
What if, as Christians, we decided to listen first, rather than respond immediately with, “But...
August 18, 2018
I’m not a Catholic in the sense of what most mean by that descriptor, but...
August 07, 2018
The Maginot Line was a series of fortifications built by the French after World War...
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