MY NEW BOOK IS OUT! (Yes, you need to buy it!)
ANNOUNCEMENT: Today my new book, Christianity and the (R)evolution in Worldviews in Western Culture came out. It is available on Amazon.com. I thought I’d...
Category: Social and Cultural Issues
Walter Brueggemann’s Prophetic Imagination…and How I See it Relating to Donald Trump, the Mueller Report, and the American System (Oh boy, this Ought to be Good!)
Two years ago, in the spring semester of 2016, at the beginning of the Trump presidency, I began teaching a course on the Old Testament Prophets. One of the fir...
Abortion: A Political Football, and My Proposal to Address It
Ever since 1973 and the SCOTUS ruling on Roe v. Wade, abortion has been one of the most controversial issues in American society. Although focus on abortion ten...
Gillette, the Razor’s Edge of Advertising, and the Politics of the Beast
A long, long time ago, before the scandalous and now discredited Buzzfeed article, and before the instant outrage and back-peddling regarding the tribal chiefta...
Jesus and Foxholes: Political Idolatry, and the Hate it Brings
I haven’t been writing on my blog much for the past month. In fact, I think this is only the second post in the past 4-5 weeks. Part of the reason for that is b...
The Brett Kavanaugh Hearings: What Does Justice Look Like?
You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept bribes, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of th...
Crossing the Jordan (Part 4): A Personal, Reflective Post on Jordan Peterson’s First Rule…
In my last post, I discussed Jordan Peterson’s first rule in his book 12 Rules for Life: “Stand up straight, with your shoulders back.” In that chapter, he used...
Crossing the Jordan–An Extended Book Review/Reflection of Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life” (Part 3: Stand up Straight, You Rock Lobster!)
We now come to addressing the first of Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life. His first rule (and hence the title of his first chapter) is Stand up straight with ...
Crossing the Jordan–An Extended Book Review/Reflection of Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life” (Part 2: Ideologies and the Power of Myth)
Based on Jordan Peterson’s various lectures and debates, if I was to crystalize what I felt he was really all about at a fundamental level, it would have to be ...
Crossing the Jordan: An Extended Book Review/Reflection of Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life” (Part 1)
Now that summer is coming to a close, my son will soon be back in school and I will be getting back into my routine as an adjunct instructor at my local univers...