Jason Lisle, William Lane Craig, and the Historical Adam Walk into a Bar… (Part 1)
Last month, Jason Lisle of the young earth creationist organization, Biblical Science Institute, began a blog series in which he critiqued William Lane Craig’s ...
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A Creative “Modernizing” of the Book of Habakkuk–What would its message be if modernized for America?
Chances are that virtually no one reading this post is an “expert” in the minor prophets. In fact, if we were being totally honest, aside from a few more famous...
Soviet Democracy…I Mean Socialist Democracy…I Mean Democratic Socialism (Part 2)
Back during the 2020 presidential primaries, Bernie Sanders was asked for his reaction to Donald Trump calling him a Communist. He replied by saying he was Demo...
Soviet Democracy: Straight from the Politburo’s Mouth (and how the description is eerily similar to “Democratic Socialism”)
Twenty-eight years ago, in 1993, I was in the first Peace Corps group to go into Kazakhstan, one of the former republics of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union h...
Some Self-Reflection from “On the Spectrum”–a new book by Daniel Bowman Jr about being an autistic adult
Earlier this month, someone I follow on social media posted a short endorsement of Daniel Bowman Jr’s book, On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neu...
A Look at Michael Heiser’s Book, “Demons”
One of the books I read over the summer was Michael Heiser’s book, Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness. In many ways, it is very sim...
Remembering 9/11…Twenty Years Later
Twenty years ago, on the morning of September 11th, 2001, at 6:55 am pacific time, I was sleeping in my basement apartment in Langley, British Columbia. Septemb...
Critical Race Theory (Part 8): My Grand Conclusion! What I’ve Learned in My Reading of CRT and What I Feel the Proper Christian/Gospel Response Should Be
Earlier this summer, before I decided to take the time to read the three books I have covered in this series on critical race theory, I didn’t feel I really kne...
Critical Race Theory (Part 7): The Arguments in Ibram X. Kendi’s Book, “How to Be an Antiracist”
We now come to Part 7 of my look at Critical Race Theory, specifically my critique of the arguments in Ibram X. Kendi’s book, How to be an Antiracist. Although ...
Critical Race Theory (Part 6): Let’s Look at Ibram X. Kendi’s Book, “How to be an Antiracist”–(A summary of his personal story)
We now come to what I expect will be the final two posts of my series on Critical Race Theory. In my first three posts, I looked at the book, Critical Race Theo...