In this post within my book analysis series on Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book Jesus and John Wayne, I’m going to be looking at chapters 5-6. Chapter 5, entitled, “Slaves and Soldiers,” focuses on the work of Tim LaHaye and Jerry Falwell, while chapter 6, entitled, “Going for the Jugular,” largely covers Evangelical support for…
Here in Part 3 of my analysis of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s (KDM) book, Jesus and John Wayne, I am going to cover chapters 3-4 in her book. I’ve realized that to try to cover four chapters per post would mean extremely long posts, so I am going to cover two chapters per post. Again,…
Beginning here in Part 2 of my analysis of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne, I want to do two things in every succeeding post of this series. First, I will give a very brief summary of each chapter in question in that particular post (I will try to cover 3-4 chapters…
A Bit of Background FirstI grew up within the Evangelical world of the 70-80s. In fact, I lived pretty much at the center of it, in Wheaton, Illinois. I grew up in an Evangelical family, went to an Assemblies of God/Evangelical church, and attended Wheaton Christian High School. During the summer after my junior year…
Well, I wrote “Heresy of Ham” five years ago, and I’m glad to see people still want to discuss it. Below is a recent interview I did for “Sparrow’s Call”–Voices in the Wilderness. And here is a link to my book, “The Heresy of Ham.” And if you want to see other books and translations…
On Good Friday, Major League Baseball announced they were moving the All-Star game this year away from Atlanta to boycott Georgia and to protest over Georgia’s new voting laws, which many Democrats claimed were racist and which Joe Biden himself said was “Jim Crow on steroids,” even calling it, “Jim Eagle.” I’ll be honest, that…
Recently, I was asked by John Griffin to sit down for a talk about my book, The Heresy of Ham, and what I think Evangelicals need to know about the so-called “Creation/Evolution Debate.” We talked for about an hour…and a good time was had by all! Even though it has been coming up on FIVE…
A few days ago, Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis wrote a blog post entitled, “The 6,000 Year War,” in which he took aim at William Lane Craig and Phil Vischer (the Veggie Tales guy) for promoting compromise in the church and for “attacking” Ken Ham…because we all know that when one dares to say…
A couple of weeks ago, someone sent me a message that he had written a critique of some of my earlier blog posts regarding the issues of theistic evolution, Adam and Eve, and original sin. I’ll link his critique here: An Orthodox Critique of Dr. Joel Anderson. His story seems to be pretty interesting—a former…
Just yesterday I happened across as Tweet from Pete Enns, in which he re-posted a short post he wrote back in 2017 about James 1:6, the verse that says the following (I’ll give James 1:5-8 to provide a bit more context): 5If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously…