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July 2018

July 26, 2018
Growing up in the evangelical tradition, Os Guinness was one of my favorite writers, intellectuals,...
July 21, 2018
Something many Christians are taught, but especially evangelicals/fundamentalists, is the idea that “scripture interprets scripture.” ...
July 11, 2018
This sentiment, whether the exact words or not, was reportedly conveyed to journalist Peter Arnett...
July 04, 2018
We celebrated our independence.  Well, that was the idea anyway.  I think most of us...

June 2018

June 29, 2018
In 1 John 4 we are told God is love.  Not that God is loving,...
June 22, 2018
We have cakes.  Evangelical Christians have been wringing their hands about whether or not they...
June 15, 2018
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) just held their annual meeting, and many see it as...
June 11, 2018
When this post was published on Patheos last June, it clearly hit some nerves.  The...
June 01, 2018
I don’t believe we can truly understand the Bible until we are able to “hear”...

May 2018

May 25, 2018
Most evangelicals headed toward pastoral ministry, at some point, are asked to sit for what...
May 18, 2018
What are we to make of the US moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to...
May 17, 2018
Michael Martin (see here) is the editor/creator of a new journal entitled "Jesus the Imagination." ...
May 11, 2018
From my last post you know I needed to make a decision.  For those who...
May 05, 2018
So, before Unfundamentalist moved and started its own website, it was a part of the...
May 04, 2018
I like and respect Ed Stetzer.  He is one of the few evangelicals/Southern Baptists who...

April 2018

April 27, 2018
If we didn’t say it ourselves when we were kids, we probably heard other kids...
April 20, 2018
You can find my latest blog post here, where it was published on the Unfundamentalist...
April 14, 2018
The most important insight, I believe, the post-modern offers is the idea that the meta-narratives...
April 06, 2018
There is a song (below) that is probably the soundtrack to my departure out of...

March 2018

March 31, 2018
As I write, it is Good Friday, the year of our Lord, 2018, and tomorrow...
March 24, 2018
We are told our God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12).  This is hardly a...
March 17, 2018
To revisit quickly this post (see here), I wanted to follow-up with one of the...
March 10, 2018
Putting aside the paradox that perhaps all fundamentalism is religious because the narratives we inhabit...
March 03, 2018
What is the shape of water?  The movie (see here) directed by Guillermo del Toro...

February 2018

February 24, 2018
So much of my early life in the FG world was about how God was...
February 17, 2018
One mark of modernity is dichotomy.  The world was split asunder when the material and...
February 10, 2018
Eric Elnes writes in his book, Gifts of the Dark Wood (see here), about “an...
February 03, 2018
Philosopher/theologian and organic farmer Michael Martin writes: “In the Gnostic myth, Sophia suffers in captivity...

January 2018

January 27, 2018
I think I’ve mentioned before I don’t think everyone is “led,” “called”— (not sure what...
January 20, 2018
We often think, after we read or hear something, we know exactly, what the speaker...
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