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March 26, 2023
When Opinions Are Facts: the Dumbing Down of American Christianity
I was seventeen in 1988, and Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ had just landed...
March 20, 2023
Is Christianity Delivering on Its Promise to Change People?
For years I’ve convinced myself that I based my faith on a dogged pursuit of...
March 18, 2022
Rethinking Hell: a Beginner’s Guide to Conditionalism and Annihilationism
Several years ago, I started publicly deconstructing the topic of hell and received the most...
March 13, 2022
The Absolute Monstrous Absurdity of Believing in Hell
I've written about my philosophical and Scriptural problems with the idea of hell in the...
March 06, 2022
The Bible Passage That Helped Turn Me into a Flaming Liberal
I didn't become a Christian until I was in my early twenties. Yet, decades later,...
May 2021
May 31, 2021
How Dungeons & Dragons Informed My Christian Theology
I fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons as a jr. high kid in the...
April 2021
April 07, 2021
Why American Evangelicalism Was QAnon’s Perfect Breeding Ground
My wife and I just finished watching Q: Into the Storm, which is a bizarro...
February 2021
February 12, 2021
No. You’re Not Getting “Canceled” for Being a Conservative
Disney announced the firing of actress Gina Carano over an Instagram post the company...
October 2020
October 26, 2020
What’s the Appropriate Christian Response to Your Racist Uncle?
It’s not an easy time to be a reasonable person in America. The tension and...
October 17, 2020
Judging Others Isn’t Wrong. It’s Required.
Christian historians will be studying evangelical support for Trump for hundreds of years. How...
October 16, 2020
4 Reasons We Should Focus on Poverty Instead of Abortion
It's that season again when everyone's Christian relative is on Facebook, talking as if abortion...
September 2020
September 19, 2020
The Social Dilemma: Is Christian Community Even Possible Anymore?
I watched The Social Dilemma the other day—mostly because I saw everyone talking about it...
August 2020
August 10, 2020
Things Christians Think and Do Not Say: Why Evangelicalism Needs to Change or Die
At the beginning of Jerry Maguire, Tom Cruise’s character has a breakthrough (or, depending on...
June 2020
June 15, 2020
What Happens When “Good” Pastors Refuse to Get Political
In many faith spaces, you'll hear the following refrain: "Let's not get too political. We...
May 2020
May 13, 2020
How a Plague Exposed the “Christian Nation” Myth
The evidence is in. The United States can finally abandon the pretense that it is...
May 08, 2020
3 Reasons Evangelical Christians Fall for Conspiracy Theories
Americans have always loved a good conspiracy theory. In the 1840s, a group of citizens...
April 2020
April 29, 2020
Spare Me Your Sudden Concern about Division
There was a Facebook post defending Trump that went viral in March. Maybe you’ve seen...
January 2020
January 08, 2020
3 Bad Habits We Pick Up from Corporate Prayer
I don’t know if anything in Christian thought and practice is more confusing than prayer....
January 03, 2020
Are American Christians too Quick to Embrace War?
Yesterday the United States launched a drone strike against Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head...
February 2019
February 26, 2019
Biblical Illiteracy Is a Big Problem—for Christians
Whenever Trump feels like he's in trouble, he begins pandering to his evangelical base....
January 2019
January 09, 2019
What’s the Narrow Way Jesus Taught About? It’s Love.
"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy...
January 07, 2019
5 Reasons Suicidal People Don’t Ask for Help
Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. Recent statistics state...
January 04, 2019
Unmerciful Servants and the Immigration Debate
The Christian life is about the management of the things God has entrusted us with....
November 2018
November 08, 2018
Love or Fear: What’s the Defining Characteristic of a Christian?
"Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold"—Jesus (Matt. 24:12)...
July 2018
July 03, 2018
7 Terrible Things the Bible Clearly Says
I'm pretty lucky to have conversations with Christians from a variety of backgrounds and cultures....
June 2018
June 12, 2018
Resolved: 20 Decisions for Surviving the Church with Your Faith Intact
Jesus famously said that the road that leads to life is narrow and only a...
June 02, 2018
Does Systemic Evil Exist and What Does It Matter?
I commented on poverty and systemic evil on Twitter, and I was surprised at the...
June 02, 2018
God’s Antidote for Patriotism: the Kingdom of God
It's not necessarily a hot take to point to 380 AD as a pivotal moment...
April 2018
April 26, 2018
Rethinking the Christian Relationship to Alcohol
The on-again-off-again relationship between Christians and alcohol always reminded me of Ross and Rachel on...
April 24, 2018
How Wild Wild Country Made Me Hungry for a Healthier Christianity
I’m always late to the party. I was watching a recent SNL featuring John Mulaney/Jack White, and they...
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