The Crucible: Why I Hate This Awful Play (Part 2: Act 2–Potholes and Plotholes)
Here in my second post on Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, we’re going to look at Act Two. First, I’ll give an overview of Act Two, then I’ll make a few comments. ...
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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...
Ken Medema, Frank Schaeffer, and Some Thoughts I Had About, You Know, Just Some Things
A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across this video on YouTube in which Frank Schaeffer was talking with Ken Medema back in 2016 at the Wild Goose Festival, ess...
Ken Ham Thinks Vegetables Undermine the Authority of Scripture: (Ham’s Beef with Phil Vischer, the State of Evangelicalism Today, and My Take of it All)
Last Friday, on December 11th, Phil Vischer, the creator of Veggie Tales, put out a very good and informative video entitled, What is an “Evangelical”? in which...
Election 2020 (Part 3): An Appeal to Christians on Both Sides of the Political Aisle–Political Idolatry and the Beast (and what Christians need to do to resist it)
Here we are, a day before the 2020 presidential election, and I want to give a few final thoughts to wrap up my two previous posts. Call it a “Christian respons...
Donald Trump, Ukraine, and Impeachment: Should We Reject Chemotherapy?
If there is one thing everyone should realize about the Trump presidency, it is this: There never is any down time. Everything is at fever pitch, all the time, ...
Josh Harris, Marty Sampson: Why Some Christians Walk Away (…and why others, like Ken Ham, insist they have all the answers)
Over the past month, two rather prominent Evangelical Christians have publicly announced that they are walking away from Christianity. First there is Josh Harri...
Gillette, the Razor’s Edge of Advertising, and the Politics of the Beast
A long, long time ago, before the scandalous and now discredited Buzzfeed article, and before the instant outrage and back-peddling regarding the tribal chiefta...
The Brett Kavanaugh Hearings: What Does Justice Look Like?
You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept bribes, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of th...
The Last Jedi: The Second Time Got Me Thinking About a Few Things….
In case you haven’t heard, there is a new Star Wars movies that has just come out—The Last Jedi. Okay, obviously you’ve heard about it. And you’re probably well...