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...
Category: Western Culture
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...
“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?)
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 ...
“Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning” by Nigel Biggar—A Book Analysis (Part 2: Was the British Empire Rooted in Greed and the Lust to Dominate?)
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 ...
“The Ark and the Darkness”–An Analysis of the YECist movie (Part 3: The Thrilling Conclusion, a Whole Lot of End Times Thinking…and some Politics for Good Measure)
Now for the thrilling conclusion of my look at the YECist movie The Ark and the Darkness. Aside from the specific items I have mentioned in my first two posts, ...