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Peter Enns, MAGA Pastors, and Partisanship…and Syncretism (Part 2): What is the source of the current partisan divide?

Posted on June 7, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 2 Comments

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 p...

Social and Cultural Issues/Western Culture/Worldview

Peter Enns, MAGA Pastors, and Partisanship…and Syncretism…and Prophets (and what I think is a major problem within Evangelicalism and ex-Evangelicalism these days)

Posted on June 2, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

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 m...

Book Review/Jordan Peterson/Social and Cultural Issues/Western Culture

“Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning” by Nigel Biggar—A Book Analysis (Part 6: Chapters 6-8—Conclusion and Final Thoughts)

Posted on March 23, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 11 Comments

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...

Book Review/Social and Cultural Issues/Western Culture

“Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning” by Nigel Biggar: A Book Analysis (Part 5: Chapter 5—Cultural Genocide?)

Posted on March 16, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 2 Comments

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...

Book Review/Social and Cultural Issues/Western Culture

“Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning” by Nigel Biggar—A Book Analysis (Part 4: Chapters 3-4: Was the British Empire essentially racist? Did it take land primarily through conquest?)

Posted on March 14, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

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...

Book Review/Social and Cultural Issues/Western Culture

“Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning” by Nigel Biggar—A Book Analysis (Part 3: Should we speak of ‘colonialism and slavery’ in the same breath, as if they were the same thing?)

Posted on March 9, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

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 ...

Book Review/Social and Cultural Issues/Western Culture/Worldview

“Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning” by Nigel Biggar—A Book Analysis (Part 2: Was the British Empire Rooted in Greed and the Lust to Dominate?)

Posted on March 6, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 3 Comments

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 ...

Book Review/Social and Cultural Issues

“Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning” by Nigel Biggar—A Book Analysis (Part 1)

Posted on March 4, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 3 Comments

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) Ni...

Book Review/Church History

Candida Moss’s “The Myth of Persecution”–A New Book Analysis Series (Part 5: Eusebius of Caesarea Made Up the Myth of Martyrdom and Apostolic Succession…and conservative Christians and the GOP are bad!)

Posted on February 23, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 7 Comments

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 Dan...

Book Review/Church History

Candida Moss’s “The Myth of Persecution”–A New Book Analysis Series (Part 4: The Romans Had Legit Reasons, Ya Know! Besides, Christian Martyrs Had Some Violent Language…which is much worse!)

Posted on February 22, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 2 Comments

In what is shaping up to be a five-part book analysis series, here in Part 4 of my look at Candida Moss’s book, The Myth of Persecution, I will be looking at he...

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