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May 2018

May 15, 2018
I became a Christian in college. Perhaps in a future blog I will talk about...
May 08, 2018
A few weeks ago this article was brought to my attention. So basically at UC-Davis...

April 2018

April 30, 2018
So last week I learned a new term. That term is incel. Evidently it indicates...
April 25, 2018
There has been a hurricane of changes over the past decade or so as it...
April 17, 2018
In a post-Christian society I am going to occasionally blog about building the Christian community....
April 09, 2018
Let me tell you a story. There was a man and a woman who were...
April 05, 2018
A disclaimer is in order. I consider myself a moderate on issues of gun control....

March 2018

March 28, 2018
For the first fifteen years or so as an academic, I focused on research that...
March 20, 2018
So what do we know about the sordid affair of Stormy Daniels? We have plenty...
March 16, 2018
I was looking over the data from the Pew study on the changing religious landscape...
March 09, 2018
I became involved in a discussion at Rod Dreher’s blog. He was discussing the type...

February 2018

February 28, 2018
I have spent a good deal of time criticizing conservative Christians about their support of...
February 19, 2018
There was a case going around concerning the all-comers policy at the University of Iowa....
February 13, 2018
I had the pleasure last week of attending a seminar on the “Threats to Academic...
February 05, 2018
An interesting thing happened after I posted last week about how anger helped to create...

January 2018

January 31, 2018
Much of this is tied to the disrespect that many of Trump voters perceive. They...
January 25, 2018
Research indicates that religious individuals have more capacity to forgive than non-religious individuals. This difference...
January 18, 2018
We do not have to let evangelicalism be tied to Trump. We do not have...
January 09, 2018
Conservative Protestant schools should offer something that students cannot get elsewhere.
January 04, 2018
Hate speech is not illegal, and it cannot become illegal. Trust me that when it...

December 2017

December 26, 2017
I am not as concerned about the conflict among Republicans and Democrats as I am...
December 20, 2017
This has been quite a year in politics. To say that President Trump has been...
December 11, 2017
Why am I hesitant to accept secularization theory? One word. Children. Secular individuals have fewer...
December 06, 2017
There is a poison in our society that is ruining our ability to make intelligent...

November 2017

November 27, 2017
A couple of weeks ago I took on the notion that privilege was a myth...
November 20, 2017
Last week I took on those who do not tend to take the idea of...
November 16, 2017
Men should not sexually harass or assault women. It does not matter whether you agree...
November 13, 2017
I stated last week that privilege is a useful concept. Of course not everyone feels...
November 09, 2017
Last week we saw the terrible terrorist attack in New York City. It reminded us...
November 07, 2017
This month I will do a series on the notion of privilege. Over the last...
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