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July 2023

July 28, 2023
“Never Trust a Pedophile” – Tim Ballard Like most Americans, if you spend little time...
July 24, 2023
  Dear Patheos Readers, Some of you may be wondering why I have not been...

June 2023

June 14, 2023
In this recent episode of the "Come Let Us Reason" podcast, friend and colleague Lenny...

May 2023

May 31, 2023
In the last post, I gave a brief account of the rise and dominance of...
May 27, 2023
In 1955 German sociologist Helmut Schelsky wrote these enigmatic yet incisive words: Psychotherapy and psychological...
May 22, 2023
This month's special series for Patheos writers is on the faith of public figures. Since...
May 19, 2023
I hate to be the guy who points this out, but we need to do...
May 17, 2023
"Yes, Virginia, demons are real." And they are real not only as Francis Church described Santa...
May 15, 2023
Guest Post by Nathan Amerson  Is the Bible ambiguous? As Evangelicals who stake our truth claims...
May 12, 2023
Heraclitus once wrote that "War is both father and king of all," and "all things...
May 03, 2023
I admit, suggesting Tucker Carlson is a "Prophet for our Times" is a fairly "click-baity"...

April 2023

April 30, 2023
Read Time: 10 minutes Beltane is a pagan, Gaelic feast day that originated among the...
April 28, 2023
Read Time: 15 minutes Recently, two of my favorite cultural commentators, Dennis Prager (a *conservative...
April 21, 2023
Read Time: 8 minutes There is a group in our culture that has become increasingly...
April 14, 2023
Read Time: 15 minutes To say Protestant churches in America have lost their way is...
April 05, 2023
As we enter into Easter week, my exhortation to all who read these words is...

March 2023

March 31, 2023
Read Time: 12 minutes In a recent segment, Tucker Carlson, someone who needs no qualifying...
March 30, 2023
What was the faith of America’s founding fathers? While most of the founders were personally...
March 22, 2023
Read Time: 10 minutes In this series, I am reviewing the 5 best Christian movies...
March 16, 2023
In this series, I am reviewing 5 great Christian films (the 5 best that I...
March 10, 2023
Read Time: 10 minutes We live in a world dominated by artistic representations of reality,...
March 06, 2023
Read Time: 15 minutes As moral thought and action continue to corrode in America, the...
March 01, 2023
In the most celebrated teaching in all human history, the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus...

February 2023

February 24, 2023
Read time: 8 minutes Is there a sin more subtle than the rest? A disposition...
February 20, 2023
Read time: 10 minutes When it comes to the movement of the Spirit of God,...
February 17, 2023
Read Time: 15 minutes In the 1997 preface to his classic work on intellectuals and...
February 10, 2023
Read time: 10 minutes Small group studies in American Evangelicalism usually revolve around one or...
February 08, 2023
Reading time: 15-20 minutes Ezekiel 16 and 23 offer a terrifying account of what seems...
February 06, 2023
Eduardo J. Echeverria Are We Together: A Roman Catholic Analyzes Evangelical Protestants Hobe Sound, Florida:...
February 03, 2023
The following weeks will bring numerous commentaries on the killing of Tyre Nichols. It is...
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