Frank Schaeffer: The Edge of Insanity (and a Warning to Us All)
Even though I’ve never formally met Frank Schaeffer, he has played a fairly interesting part in my life as a whole, and in my faith journey in particular. In hi...
Category: Social and Cultural Issues
An Open Letter to Progressives and Never Trumpers…and Trump Supporters, for that Matter (Everyone, Really)
Last week, I came across a John Stossel video entitled, “Trump: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.” It got me thinking about the entire Trump phenomenon that has ...
Donald Trump, Ukraine, and Impeachment: Should We Reject Chemotherapy?
If there is one thing everyone should realize about the Trump presidency, it is this: There never is any down time. Everything is at fever pitch, all the time, ...
Ken Ham, Conservative Christian Crusader vs. Progressive Christian Secularists! (…and why I don’t really like either side)
Last month, a friend of mine brought to my attention an October 17th blog post by Ken Ham in which he commented on an article by Religion News Service about new...
Ken Ham and Christian Colleges: No Doubt in Ham’s “gospel” of Adam
The other day, Ken Ham took to Twitter to comment on a recent article in Christianity Today entitled, “Lose You Faith at College? That’s Part of the Process.” Y...
Josh Harris, Marty Sampson: Why Some Christians Walk Away (…and why others, like Ken Ham, insist they have all the answers)
Over the past month, two rather prominent Evangelical Christians have publicly announced that they are walking away from Christianity. First there is Josh Harri...
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...
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...