St. Val – Theological Lessons from Amazon’s new documentary about Val Kilmer
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Val, the new documentary film on Amazon Video, tells the story of the actor Val Kilmer’s life up until now using narration, footage from Kilmer’s […]
Category: Theology
PODCAST: Saved By Baptism?
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What are protestants, who believe in salvation by faith alone, supposed to do with passages in the New Testament that suggest that Christians are saved […]
Jonathan Rauch’s Kindly Inquistors – A Review
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Jonathan Rauch’s Kindly Inquistors: The New Attacks on Free Thought was originally published in 1995, but its analysis of two opposite but dangerous trends which […]
PODCAST: -Be perfect? Surely, you can’t be serious! -I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
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In this conversation with artist Jackson Ferrell (http://www.bigjstudios.com), we investigate what Jesus meant when He told His followers to be perfect just as God is […]
The Old Gods Strike Back!
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In the 2017 film Wonder Woman, Diana, the Amazon daughter of Zeus, is pulled into the world of men during the first World War. While […]
Make Violence Unacceptable Again
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The Overton window is shifting on violence. While political violence has, in contemporary American history, been seen as concomitant with extremism, the past year has […]
PODCAST: Christian Duties and Human Rights; PLUS Babies on the Sidewalk, Babies at the Capitol
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In a recording from January 8th, I chat with the Anti-War War Vet John Dangelo III about how the classical liberal/libertarian concept of negative rights […]
Christmas vs. the State
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A reading of my article at The Stream about how tyrants from Herod the Great to Stalin and Hitler tried to cancel or co-opt Christmas. […]
PODCAST: Leaving Sola Scriptura
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Aree Spivey (of Failed Kingdoms) was my guest to discuss his move toward Eastern Orthodoxy and away from the Protestant idea of sola scriptura–that scripture […]
PODCAST: Fight the Powers Revisited
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Two years after the release of my book Fight the Powers, my reflections on what it meant for Christians to Fight the Powers under Trump […]