“Reading While Black” by Esau McCaulley: Book Analysis Series (Part 2)
Here in my second post on Esau McCaulley’s book, Reading While Black, I am going to provide an overview chapters 2 and 3. Chapter 2 is entitled, “Freedom is No ...
Category: Social and Cultural Issues
New Book Analysis Series: “Reading While Black:African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope” by Esau McCaulley (Part 1)
Last fall, Esau McCaulley, an assistant professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, came out with his book, Reading While Black: An African American Biblical...
If You Smoke or Drink, You Aren’t a Good Person (and probably not a real Christian!)
Please allow me this brief rant. You may call yourself a Christian. Your social media profile has Bible verses on it, you attend church, give money to charity, ...
Ken Ham Thinks Vegetables Undermine the Authority of Scripture: (Ham’s Beef with Phil Vischer, the State of Evangelicalism Today, and My Take of it All)
Last Friday, on December 11th, Phil Vischer, the creator of Veggie Tales, put out a very good and informative video entitled, What is an “Evangelical”? in which...
Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 4a): God as Creator
The next chapter in Bishop Kallistos Ware’s classic, The Orthodox Way, is entitled, “God as Creator.” There is so much packed into this chapter, that it will ta...
Election 2020: A Bonus Post–The Fall Out (…and a serious warning to everyone)
Now that Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States, it has been interesting to watch the reactions across the board. I’ve seen a lot of...
Election 2020 (Part 3): An Appeal to Christians on Both Sides of the Political Aisle–Political Idolatry and the Beast (and what Christians need to do to resist it)
Here we are, a day before the 2020 presidential election, and I want to give a few final thoughts to wrap up my two previous posts. Call it a “Christian respons...
Election 2020 (Part 2): My Evaluation of the Democrats and Media Over the Past Four Years (My apologies, but I’m just being honest as to how I’ve seen things)
In my previous post, I gave a brief overview regarding how I felt about Donald Trump in 2016, how I expected him to crash and burn as president, how I assumed I...
Election 2020 (Part 1): My Assessment of Trump’s Presidency, and Why I’m Voting the Way I’m Voting (…like this will really change anyone’s mind, but hey, don’t you want to know what I think?)
As we are now just days from the 2020 Presidential Election, with all the tension and toxicity every single American has felt for the past four years, and in li...
Answers in Genesis Passes Judgment on OEC, TE, and even NT Wright and Francis Collins…(and I somehow tie this all into 2020 Politics)
Over the past month, I really haven’t written anything on this blog. I’ve just been too tired, and quite frankly, too depressed, to write anything. The social a...