As fate would have it, over this past week while I have been writing two posts inspired a couple things Peter Enns posted regarding MAGA pastors and the issue of partisanship, I have also begun reading Dan McClellan’s new book, The Bible Says So? Recently, he did some sort of podcast with Enns about his…
In my last post, I made a few comments regarding two posts Peter Enns recently put out regarding a few “MAGA pastors.” And while I agree with him for the most part in his criticism of these pastors, it got me thinking about what I feel is an underlying problem within Evangelicalism and ex-Evangelicalism alike:…
It has been over two months since I’ve last written anything on my blog. The end of the school year, as well as a few other contributing factors, has taken up my time. That, plus the fact I simply didn’t have anything pressing to write about. Now that summer is here, I’m going to try…
We now come to my final post in my book analysis of Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. In this post, I am going to fly through chapters 6-8 and then give my reflections and thoughts on the book as a whole, as well as what I feel are the underlying issues that have made…
Here in Part 5 of my book analysis of Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, I am primarily going to cover chapter 5 of his book, “Cultural Assimilation and ‘Genocide,’” in which, among other things, he discusses the Canadian residential schools. The issue of these residential schools has been a major flashpoint of controversy on…
At this point in my book analysis of Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, in this post, I’m going to provide brief overviews of both Chapter 3 (“Human Equality, Cultural Superiority, and Racism”) and Chapter 4 (“Land, Settlers, and Conquest”). I want to write no more than two posts after this one. Chapter 3: Human…
Chapter 2: From Slavery to Anti-Slavery—Summary and ReactionBiggar begins Chapter 2 by pushing back against the current narrative put forth by the likes of the “Rhodes Must Fall” and “Black Lives Matter” movements regarding colonialism and slavery—namely that colonialism and slavery are inseparable and that white supremacy was at the root of it all. Biggar…
With the Introduction of Nigel Biggar’s book Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning out of the way, I am now ready to go through his book, chapter by chapter and trace his fundamental arguments concerning British Imperialism. In this post, I’m tackling chapter 1. Chapter 1: Motives, Good and BadThe first chapter in Nigel Biggar’s book deals…
Earlier this year at Regent College, where I got my first MA in 1995-1997, there was a fairly heated dust-up concerning the British scholar (and Regent alum) Nigel Biggar. The Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford, he had been invited to give a lecture about the British Empire and the…
Here in my final post on Candida Moss’s book, The Myth of Persecution, I will cover Chapter 7: “The Invention of the Persecuted Church,” and Chapter 8: “The Dangerous Legacy of a Martyrdom Complex.” After that, I will give my concluding thoughts to the book as a whole. Chapter 7: The Invention of the Persecuted…