This post is part of a series. If rhetoric is protected speech, and incitement is not, is violence or use of mortal force ever ethically…
This post is part of a series. In Part 1 of this series, I argued that warlike rhetoric is not unethical, but it must be…
This post is part of a series. One common error that frustrates public debate is the lack of clear definition of terms. Often, such distinctions…
Abortion is a highly contested topic, like many other human rights issues (there are arguably two, if not three humans involved). Here’s my summary of…
Interestingly, all religions (except Judaism, perhaps) recognize Jesus as some sort of spiritual prophet (which can not be said of Krishna, Buddha, or Mohammed). But…
A recent article at the Huffington Post entitled The Foolishness of So-Called Biblical Gender Roles got me thinking – what is a Christian approach to…
The growing number of accepted gender non-conformities is growing each year, and the number of combinations of gender identity and sexual preference is multiplying to the…
American patriotism, I would argue, is not as simple as most. Unlike most countries, our patriotism is not based primarily on ethnicity or shared lands…
Lots of heat, not very much light in the gun violence discussions. However, in my research, here’s what works and does not. Two Types of…
Our political system is polarized on many issues, many of which, like education and healthcare, probably do not yield to a simplistic either or, statist…
Inspired by Matthew Scmitz , Artur Rosman, and a great list from 2005,1 and to celebrate Banned Books Week, I came up with my own…
Recently, historically conservative Christian colleges started changing their policies regarding gay marriage and sexual orientation. This is in part a move to comply with the reality of…
A lot of people I know and respect have abandoned the Complementarian view for Christian Egalitarianism.1. High profile evangelicals have furthered the dialog, like Rachael…
Or do I? A friend of mine posted an image with the left half and bottom of this image. I provided the right column. We…
This past week, self-help guru and author Wayne Dyer died at age 75. He was beloved by celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Ellen Degeneres, even…
This is our first year doing homeschooling – we are starting our 6th grader, while our two younger children are still in the excellent Walnut…
We all know that paradoxes are two ideas that seem contradictory or mutually exclusive, yet are actually both true in a way that does not…
The other day, a friend mined the following quote from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility: The only force…
Over the past few decades, Evangelicalism has shifted from being mainly conservative (both politically and doctrinally) to a much broader spectrum of positions. One of…
The new cake wars is not a triviality, even though on the surface it may seem like it. The issue here is that, like with all…
Here is the lecture I gave at the 2015 Rethinking Hell Conference. It’s about an hour long, but I think it’s worth it. Enjoy.
Have you ever been so stressed or sad that you felt like you were losing years off of your life? That real life was so…
For those new to the debate over hell, there are three main positions in Christendom: The Traditional View, a.k.a. Eternal Conscious Punishment (ECP), claims that…
The second Rethinking Hell conference just finished, and this year was more fun than last year because I got to present a breakout lecture entitled…