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…
I chose to study and follow up on this Buddhist teacher and style of meditation because of all the spiritual disciplines, I feel that this…
If you’re like me, you really want to accomplish great and fun things in your life, but you never quite muster up the focus, energy,…
I spent my silent retreat in the outfield at my local community sports park, and was not interrupted until the last hour of my sit,…
George W. Braswell Jr.’s Islam: Its Prophet, Peoples, Politics and Power is a concise yet fairly comprehensive introduction to the history, doctrines, and practice of…
This paper was written for a graduate level M. Div. class at Fuller Theological Seminary. The author of the book I used, James W. Sire,…
In A Muslim View of Christianity: Essays on Dialogue (Faith Meets Faith), Mahmoud Ayoub attempts to initiate, describe and model Muslim/Christian dialogue. These collected lectures…
This post is part of a series. Many people know “The Lord’s Prayer” by heart because it is chanted like an incantation at many churches,…
One of the Facebook forums that I watch but rarely participate in (more heat than light) is called Atheism vs Christianity (no holds barred). Recently, a…
In 2014, I attended the inaugural Rethinking Hell Conference, at which John Stackhouse Jr. gave an outrageously fine opening lecture (see more of the lectures…
I have read and annotated my books for a long time, but I have always subconsciously been unhappy with the system I developed. So I’ve…
This post is part of a series. Listening to yet another daily horror committed by ‘extremist’ Islamists, I again became incensed at how many people (millions)…
This series is made up of the following articles: The Philosophical Case for Conditionalism 1, Introduction The Philosophical Case for Conditionalism 2, The Main Arguments…
This post is part of a series. In Part 1, I introduced the idea that, in addition to scriptural arguments in support of Conditional Immortality (CI),…
This post is part of a series. One way to state the ethos of the Christian story would be to state it in terms of the…
Today I read an article about another Evangelical pastor deciding that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality. The article mentioned that a non-traditional interpretation of…
This post is part of a series. I have previously catalogued my exodus from the bondage of Arminian Holiness to the peace of Reformed Theology,…
I’m not talking about eros, I’m talking about being passionate for accomplishing something worthwhile in your life. Most of us are not – we’ve lost…