Thoughts on Charlie Kirk
Over the past five days since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, on one hand, it has been very encouraging to see the outpouring of support and sympathy for Kirk an...
Category: Social and Cultural Issues
I Watched an Alex O’Connor Video: Here are My Thoughts
Last week, someone left a comment on one of my posts from a few years ago about Richard Dawkins that I should talk to Alex O’Connor. It was meant as a complimen...
A Brief US History Lesson: Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence
This year I am teaching American Literature to 11th graders. Personally, I’m not a fan of the textbook. For being an American Literature textbook, there are qui...
Irenaeus and “Against Heresies” (Contemplating Ancient Gnostics…and Modern Academics?)
I’ve always had somewhat of a love-hate relationship with my Biblical Studies “career.” Back in 1995-1996, I attended Regent College in Vancouver, British Colum...
Partisanship (Part 3): A Dan McClellan BONUS! (And a springboard into another book analysis)
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 o...
Peter Enns, MAGA Pastors, and Partisanship…and Syncretism (Part 2): What is the source of the current partisan divide?
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...
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)
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...
“Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning” by Nigel Biggar—A Book Analysis (Part 6: Chapters 6-8—Conclusion and Final Thoughts)
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...
“Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning” by Nigel Biggar: A Book Analysis (Part 5: Chapter 5—Cultural Genocide?)
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...
“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?)
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...