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May 2025

May 30, 2025
Somehow I knew this was coming. I had hinted at it in various FB posts,...

April 2025

April 22, 2025
Pope Francis, aka Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has died. As to the man and his...

February 2025

February 20, 2025
In my previous post, The 'Gods' of Left and Right, I started my analysis of...
February 11, 2025
Ever since Panaetius of Rhodes (185-110/109 BC) philosophers have recognized three modes of theological expression....

January 2025

January 30, 2025
Recently Mariann Edgar Budde, an Episcopalian bishop who preached at Donald Trump during a National...
January 08, 2025
This episode of the Theology and Ethics podcast takes a deep dive into theology and...

December 2024

December 20, 2024
I am not saying with this article that there are only two great Christmas songs....
December 06, 2024
Before I begin, Happy St. Nicholas Day! Let's just get that out there first. Second,...

November 2024

November 07, 2024
Okay, let's get to it: the takeaways for Evangelical Christians regarding the Trump victory. To...

October 2024

October 29, 2024
In this episode of the Theology and Ethics Podcast, The Kirkwood Center interviews Christian author,...
October 22, 2024
Yet another group of evangelical "leaders" (whoever anointed them as such, we know not), has...

July 2024

July 31, 2024
Editors Note: This is a guest post by Christian author and speaker Kaon Serjani. Immediately...

June 2024

June 28, 2024
Recently, I posted about a new eBook I wrote on the return of Paganism in...
June 13, 2024
Roughly three and a half years ago I started writing for Patheos. Around that time,...

May 2024

May 30, 2024
In the last post I tried to answer the question of "What is Legalism?" within...
May 23, 2024
The charge of "Legalism," or of being legalistic, can often come quick and hard in...
May 20, 2024
Natural theology can mean two things. It can mean the affirmation that God (Yahweh) is...
May 03, 2024
In contemporary Christianity the claim is often made that only behaviors are sinful. However, the...

April 2024

April 12, 2024
In the last few posts I have offered a defense of the "literal view" of...
April 03, 2024
In this series, I have been defending the literalist view of the Israelites' conquest of...

March 2024

March 29, 2024
In my last article, I addressed a recent controversy that broke about Israel's conquest of...
March 26, 2024
Recently, an online debate flared up regarding the biblical conquest of the Canaanites, or what...
March 14, 2024
In my last post on Deuteronomy Chapter 7, I discussed the three reasons the Bible...
March 11, 2024
“This communion which the saints have with Christ doth not make them in any wise...
March 08, 2024
In this episode of the Apologetics.com radio show, Dr. Harry Edwards, Lenny Esposito (vice-president of...
March 06, 2024
One of the most contentious and vexing questions of biblical history is God's ordering Israel...
March 01, 2024
In my last three posts: here, here and here, I argued there are serious problems...

February 2024

February 27, 2024
In my last post, I discussed what I believe to be the theological view of...
February 23, 2024
This week, I happened to read two different articles in my news feed about how...
February 22, 2024
In my previous post, I argued that there were several fundamental problems with the #HeGetsUs...
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