One of the main ways we can reduce the acrimony in our society is to stop proposing that government should solve all our problems. Specifically,…
For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also…
Author and podcaster Jeff Goins has a great productivity podcast, and a while back he discussed the five drafts or stages your writing goes through.…
As yet another high profile evangelical departs from centuries of orthodoxy on the issue, we have to ask ourselves, what is happening, and should we…
In Part 1, I covered Dr. Daniel Kirk’s pro-gay theology. In this concluding article, we cover the pro-hetero theology of Dr. Robert Gagnon, and draw some…
This debate is probably one of the more advanced theological debates on the subject, miles from the simplistic first-tier arguments. It is also interesting to…
Many of us suffer under the illusion that only “born artists” are creative, and the rest of us are just ungifted. But it turns out,…
Are you an audiobook junkie? Do you crave better listening material for your long commute? Do you also own a few Kindle books? Then you…
One of my favorite atheist philosophers is Graham Oppy, Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University and Associate Editor of the…
A recent Open Letter To Straight People On The Pulse Massacre (Huffington Post) suggests that those of us who are merely tolerant of the LGBT+…
I have a high regard for Calvinism, since it saved me from (hyper)-Arminianism, experienced by me as the Holiness movement. This movement is the child…
If you are unfamiliar with NPR’s Intelligence Squared debates, you are missing out. They gather four excellently qualified people to debate, two against two, propositions…
My son is only 10 years old right now, but I’ve already started thinking about what i will tell him and his sisters as they…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
This paper was written as a final assignment for my M. Div. program at Fuller Theological Seminary, for the class IS502 – The Practice of…
Author James K.A. Smith is a bit of an anomaly to me – a Pentecostal, Reformed philosopher with impeccable intellectual credentials and mindbendingly erudite prose…
At the time of this writing, the fear and loathing of Islam is growing in the West, and has been for over a decade since…