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The Crucible: Why I Hate This Awful Play (Part 4: No, the Salem Witch Trials were not like the Red Scare)

Posted on March 15, 2026 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 3 Comments

We have now come to my final post on Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. There are no real hysterical fireworks that happen in Act 4. The conclusion is straight...

Book Review/Literature and Poetry/Social and Cultural Issues

The Crucible: Why I Hate This Awful Play (Part 3: Act 3–The Insane Courtroom Scene)

Posted on March 12, 2026 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 4 Comments

Here in my third post on Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, we will look at the courtroom scene and the insanity that unfolds in Act Three. In this post, thoug...

Social and Cultural Issues

Thoughts on Charlie Kirk

Posted on September 14, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 16 Comments

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...

Social and Cultural Issues/The New Atheist Movement/Worldview

I Watched an Alex O’Connor Video: Here are My Thoughts

Posted on September 6, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 73 Comments

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...

Social and Cultural Issues/Western Culture/Worldview

A Brief US History Lesson: Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence

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

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...

Church Fathers/Church History/Social and Cultural Issues

Irenaeus and “Against Heresies” (Contemplating Ancient Gnostics…and Modern Academics?)

Posted on July 2, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 15 Comments

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...

Social and Cultural Issues/Western Culture

Partisanship (Part 3): A Dan McClellan BONUS! (And a springboard into another book analysis)

Posted on June 8, 2025 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

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...

Social and Cultural Issues/Western Culture/Worldview

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...

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