Randy Stonehill: Social Insight from a Musical Jester
In my last post, I wrote about the Christian singer-songwriter Bob Bennett, particularly his 1991 album, Songs from Bright Avenue, that dealt with the pain of d...
Category: Social and Cultural Issues
Ken Ham’s Ark: My Close Encounter of the (un)Biblical Kind (Part 3)—Odds and Ends
In this final post about my visit to Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter, I want to just touch upon a few odds and ends (as the title of this post suggests). The things I’...
The Ark Encounter, Atheists, and Billboard Wars: Welcome to Junior High!
Even though I have written quite a bit on Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis this past year, even going so far as to say that young earth creationism is heretical, ...
The Unintended Reformation: The Grand Conclusion (Part 10)
We now come to the conclusion of my book analysis of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation. Let me say up front that I do not think Gregory was attempting t...
The Unintended Reformation: Chapter 6–Secularizing Knowledge (Part 9) What can we say about modern education?
Brad Gregory’s sixth chapter in The Unintended Reformation is entitled, “Secularizing Knowledge.” In it, he looks at the modern American education system, parti...
The Unintended Reformation: Chapter 5–The Goods Life…Love That Money! (Part 8)
In the last two chapters in The Unintended Reformation, Brad Gregory looks at two aspects of modern life in America today: the consumeristic culture and the hig...
The Unintended Reformation: Chapter 4–“Subjectivizing Morality” (Part 7)
We now continue with our walk through of The Unintended Reformation by Brad Gregory. In this post, I’m going to take a look at chapter 4, “Subjectivizing Morali...
Answers in Genesis Reviews “God’s Not Dead 2”–Welcome to Bizarro World (Spoiler Alert: AiG Doesn’t Think We Should Emphasize the Historical Jesus)
Today I’m taking a break from my summary/analysis of The Unintended Reformation by Brad Gregory, in order to share the movie review of “God’s Not Dead 2” by th...
The Unintended Reformation (Part 6): The Government Wants to Control Religion! (Well, not really, but we seem to really want it to…)
In my last post, I commented on chapter three of The Unintended Reformation by Brad Gregory, in which he traced the historical development of Church/State relat...
The Unintended Reformation (Part 5): Chapter 3–Controlling the Churches: From Luther to Jefferson in Five Easy Steps
In my last post, I covered chapter 2 of Brad Gregory’s book, The Unintended Reformation, in which he traced a historical line from the Reformation to the 19th c...