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July 22, 2016
Another blog post at Pickled Pencil
on Donald Trump and the mysticism of money.
July 09, 2016
Is organic food really no better than conventional?
Every so often an article appears informing us all, in a very superior tone, that...
June 2016
June 27, 2016
Acton blogs this year
I attended Acton University again this year, and my blogs on the subject (which were...
June 27, 2016
Acton blogs this year
I attended Acton University again this year, and my blogs on the subject (which were...
May 2016
May 08, 2016
Tubers vs. grains
This article argues that societies that ate roots/tubers (potatoes, manioc, yams, etc.) got as many...
May 08, 2016
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp–in which I take the opposite view from Winston Churchill
According to Roger Ebert's review of the 1943 film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,...
May 07, 2016
The most basic argument against Protestantism
Dave Armstrong at Patheos Catholic has pointed out that early Protestants "detested divisions" and were...
May 07, 2016
Guarding our neighbor’s pride–yet another response to Morgan Guyton
If I'm not careful this blog will become nothing but a parasite on Morgan's. He...
May 06, 2016
Romans 1, original sin, and identity
One of the key passages in theological debates over homosexuality is Romans 1, in which...
April 2016
April 17, 2016
Review of Morgan Guyton, Part 2
Chapter 7 of How Jesus Saves the World from Us, "Communion, not Correctness," deals with the...
April 12, 2016
Review of Morgan Guyton, How Jesus Saves the World from Us (part 1)
Christianity does not have a good reputation among non-Christians in contemporary America and Western Europe....
March 2016
March 21, 2016
Is the falsifiability of Christian claims a conclusive argument for Christianity?
This article argues that it is, but I think the argument is pretty much bunk....
March 20, 2016
Further thoughts on Isaiah
I have now finished reading through Isaiah in Hebrew (I did this quite a while...
March 12, 2016
Shaped by a Tangle of Stories
I haven't posted for a while because I've been working on articles on the Reformation...
January 2016
January 29, 2016
James Payton, Part 2
Chapter 7 of Payton's Getting the Reformation Wrong focuses on the Anabaptists and other radical groups....
January 23, 2016
Review of James Payton, Getting the Reformation Wrong, part 1
James Payton's 2010 book Getting the Reformation Wrong has a provocative title (one I would love...
January 23, 2016
Letter of Melanchthon to Brenz, May 1531
I translated this letter some years ago for Dave Armstrong, who had cited parts of...
January 20, 2016
Isaiah, chaos, and idolatry (with a concluding peroration about Muslims)
I've been reading through the Bible in Hebrew for many years now, and I'm just...
January 02, 2016
Progressive revelation in the OT: A response to Jonathan Huddleston
Jonathan Huddleston, an old and dear friend of mine who is an OT scholar, has...
January 01, 2016
Why the Incarnation requires us to believe that Muslims worship the true God
So the Internet has been buzzing these past few weeks--my corner of it at least--with...
December 2015
December 17, 2015
In memoriam magistri Latomi dilecti
I first met David Steinmetz in April 1995, more than twenty years ago. I was...
November 2015
November 29, 2015
The Remarkable Career of a Young Academic (to the tune of “The Vicar of Bray”)
When I got out of graduate school,I applied to a Christian college,Where I found it...
September 2015
September 18, 2015
Patheos blog on Pope Francis
I was invited to participate in a panel of responses to Pope Francis' upcoming visit...
September 07, 2015
Kim Davis and the ethics of workplace resistance
I hadn't planned to write a formal blog post about Kim Davis. I've gotten involved...
September 03, 2015
Wolf Hall and the myth of the Moral Pragmatist
The BBC/PBS miniseries Wolf Hall is six hours of some of the most absorbing television...
September 03, 2015
Acton blog series
This summer, I wrote a series of blogs on my experiences at the "Acton Institute"...
June 2015
June 14, 2015
Canon and authority–a common Catholic argument analyzed
One of the strongest Catholic arguments against Protestantism is the challenge, "how do you explain...
May 2015
May 16, 2015
Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 7–final thoughts
When I began this series, I made it clear that I approached Boyd's theology with...
April 2015
April 19, 2015
Letter to the board of trustees of Northwest Nazarene University with regard to the firing of Tom Oord
I did not originally intend this as an open letter, but my wife urged me...
April 14, 2015
Greg Boyd’s warfare theology part 6–how it all fits together
Boyd's "warfare theology" is a comprehensive account of how God relates to the world in...
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