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. […]
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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 […]
Fight the Powers Revisited
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Two years after the release of Fight the Powers, my reflections on what it meant for Christians to Fight the Powers under Trump and what […]
Failed Kingdoms – Saying No to God
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I was recently a guest on the Failed Kingdoms podcast to discuss Matthew J. Korpman’s book Saying No to God: A Radical Approach to Reading the […]
Failed Kingdoms – Is Homosexuality Sinful?
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I was recently a guest on the Failed Kingdoms podcast to talk with Matthew Distefano about whether or not the Bible treats homosexual behavior as […]
Judge Not?
Posted onChristians are often told to follow Jesus’ command to not judge, often by non-Christians who perceive us, rightly or wrongly, of being nasty and judgmental. […]
How Should Christians Vote… or should they?
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I chat with the Anti-War War Vet John Dangelo III about whether or not Christians ought to be voting, and if so, what should animate […]
The False Gospel of No-Suffering
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A perennial challenge to belief in God is human suffering. If God is all good and all powerful, it is asked, why do the good […]
Should Christians Talk About Race?
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I’ve been seeing a lot of folks, especially on the right, saying that we should stop talking about race, that if we did stop talking […]
The Economic Condition of Black America in the Twentieth Century with author Germinal G. Van
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I had the opportunity to talk to Germinal G. Van about his book The Economic Condition of Black America in the Twentieth Century: A Historical […]