The Crucible: Why I Hate This Awful Play (Part 1: Act 1)
This year is the first year I have ever had to teach Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Up until this year, I had never read it. It is set during the Salem witch tri...
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Some Thoughts on Habakkuk (Trump, Iran, and Bitching About Babylon)
One Old Testament prophet that often gets overlooked is Habakkuk. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Only Habakkuk? Outside of a handful of verses mainly in Isa...
The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 6: Book 2—Church Teaching vs. Heretics)
It has been three months since I last wrote anything here on my blog. I’m going to finally get around to get back into the swing of things by completing my seri...
“The Heresy of Ham” on Sale at Wipf & Stock–50% off
At Wipf & Stock right now you can purchase my revised edition of “The Heresy of Ham” at 50% off with the code: CONFSHIP Great gift for Christmas...
The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 5: An Overview of the “Gnostic Bench”)
In this fifth post in my book analysis of Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I want to cover 1.24-31. In these chapters, Irenaeus provides his readers with a bird’s ey...
The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 4: Let’s Mock Heretics! And Let’s Admit Some Things Never Change)
Throughout Part 1 of Against Heresies, Irenaeus gives long, detailed, and extremely confusing explanations of all the teachings of the various Gnostic heretical...
The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 3: The Core Teachings of the Christian Faith)
Here in Part 3 of my series on Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I’m going to focus Chapter 10 of Book 1, where, after detailing the particulars of Gnostic teachings ...
The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 2: Con-men, Gnostics, and Scholars)
Over this past year, as I have been reading and paraphrasing Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I knew that I was going to do a blog series on it. Now, here I am, read...
The Living Irenaeus of Lyons: A Blog Series on Against Heresies (Part 1)
Over this past year of 2025, I have been engaged in a personal project involving reading through the two works of Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies and On the...
“God’s Propaganda” by Kipp Davis–An Extended Book Analysis (Part 8: This is the End!)
As Jim Morrison famously sang, “This is the end!” Over these past two weeks, I have taken a tour through Kipp Davis’ recent book, God’s Propaganda. I’ve tried t...