A few days ago, I came across the following quote from conservative economist Thomas Sowell: “One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires – and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who…
Once again, it has been over a month since my last post. It is amazing how busy things get when you are a high school teacher again at the start of a school year. Not only does teaching keep you busy, but I got sick early on…then an ear infection…then I had to deal with…
I haven’t written anything on my blog for about a month. The reason for that is a combination of things. This summer was “the summer of putting the house back together” after the tornado of March 31! There has been a lot of contacting window guys, driveway guys, roofers, etc., and it just takes up…
Here we now are, at my final post in this short series in which I am briefly looking at Evangelicalism’s tendency to say that Evangelicalism is going down the tubes, is a disaster, is a corruption of the faith, and is a wayward movement. In my last two posts, I attempted to give a general…
As we now come to my third post in this short series on Evangelicalism, and why it seems routine to find Evangelicals declaring how horrible Evangelicalism is, I find myself loathing to finish this short series. It has been a topic I have been around most of my life, and it has gotten even more…
In my last post, I began to explore the curious “tradition” within American Evangelicalism of constantly bashing American Evangelicalism. And it isn’t just a matter of saying, “Hey, there are problems within Evangelicalism.” It always seems to be criticisms from Evangelicals that amount to, “Evangelicalism has corrupted Christianity! Evangelicalism is a disaster! It’s a scandal!”…
A couple of years ago, I did a book analysis series on Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne. Here is a link to Part 1–you can navigate from there. Long story short, I didn’t like it…at all. Now, I’m no longer an Evangelical (I joined the Orthodox Church in 2006), but I…
Last week, the Southern Baptist Convention formally expelled Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback Church in California, out of the SBC because Warren had ordained female pastors. In church lingo, the issue is over complementarianism and egalitarianism. Complementarianism is the belief that although men and women are equal in the eyes of God, God has…
Here in Part 4 of my look at Jason Baxter’s book, The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis, we are going to look at the final two chapters: Chapter 7: “Deep Conversion and Unveiling,” and Chapter 8: “Modern Science and Medieval Myth.” I’ll just say up front that I do not think this is a well-written…
Here in Part 3 of my look at Jason Baxter’s book, The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis, I want to take a quick look at Chapter 5, “Why Lewis Loved Dante,” and Chapter 6, “How to Pray to a Medieval God.” Let’s jump in… Chapter 5: Why Lewis Loved DanteI first read Dante’s Inferno back…