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September 2020

September 09, 2020
Not that there are any literal Pharisees still around these days, but if there were...
September 04, 2020
Discovered in the ruins of a Pompeii house covered in the ash of Mount Vesuvius'...
September 03, 2020
My Father died a few days ago. It wasn't something we expected to happen, although...

August 2020

August 28, 2020
"God is love, but he's also a God of wrath", they tell me. But, if...
August 21, 2020
One thing we seem to misunderstand when it comes to Jesus is that he's not...
August 20, 2020
Full disclosure: As a young boy I never went anywhere without a toy gun somewhere...
August 14, 2020
I received several comments on my post "7 Reasons Why Jesus Was NOT Sacrificed For...
August 13, 2020
One of the lynchpins of Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theory [PSA] is that Jesus had to...
August 11, 2020
We often think of sin as "missing the mark", but I want to us to...
August 06, 2020
If you've been reading my blog for any length of time, you already know by...
August 05, 2020
I honestly believe that one of the most transformative truths that most Christians still haven't...
August 03, 2020
When I read the question: "Why didn't Jesus call any women to be his disciples?"...

July 2020

July 29, 2020
Honestly, I think at least once a week I hear someone invoke the phrase, "This...
July 22, 2020
It's a very common misconception that nearly every Christian embraces without question: God works all...
July 21, 2020
Anyone who knows me is already familiar with the fact that I admire David Bentley...
July 17, 2020
It's kinda funny how, once your eyes are opened, you can start to see things...
July 13, 2020
They say that familiarity breeds contempt, but when it comes to the Scriptures, it can...
July 08, 2020
  So much of religion is aimed at getting us to fight for and work...
July 03, 2020
I grew up believing that "without the shedding of blood there is no remission of...

June 2020

June 18, 2020
After posting a few articles here and sharing them around social media, I've received a...
June 17, 2020
Today a friend of mine on Facebook said that he had never met anyone who...
June 16, 2020
In my view, Jesus and Paul would have not gotten along well, and Jesus would...
June 15, 2020
I need to confess something. I’ve had lots of black friends over the years but...
June 12, 2020
The famous historian, Howard Zinn in his masterful presentation at Boston University, just before his...
June 09, 2020
  Kinda surreal to wake up and realize the President of the United States of...
June 04, 2020
"White Privilege is a myth!" I hear many of my friends say. Those people always...
June 01, 2020
Our world is on fire. We can't escape the images of hate on our screens....

May 2020

May 29, 2020
Please watch the video linked here. I want to say a few things about it...
May 28, 2020
And when we murder you, could you please protest peacefully? And when we choke your...
May 28, 2020
Once more, another unarmed black man is dead at the hands of a white man....
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