A New Book Analysis Series: “Jesus and John Wayne” (Part 1)

A Bit of Background FirstI grew up within the Evangelical world of the 70-80s. In fact, I lived pretty much at the center of it, in Wheaton, Illinois. I grew up in an Evangelical family, went to an Assemblies of God/Evangelical church, and attended Wheaton Christian High School. During the summer after my junior year…

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Another Interview OF ME (about my book “Heresy of Ham”)

Well, I wrote “Heresy of Ham” five years ago, and I’m glad to see people still want to discuss it. Below is a recent interview I did for “Sparrow’s Call”–Voices in the Wilderness. And here is a link to my book, “The Heresy of Ham.” And if you want to see other books and translations…

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An Admittedly Odd Easter Reflection: Easter and Peter…and the Politics of Ear-Chopping

On Good Friday, Major League Baseball announced they were moving the All-Star game this year away from Atlanta to boycott Georgia and to protest over Georgia’s new voting laws, which many Democrats claimed were racist and which Joe Biden himself said was “Jim Crow on steroids,” even calling it, “Jim Eagle.” I’ll be honest, that…

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Here’s an Interview I Did (About my book “Heresy of Ham”

Recently, I was asked by John Griffin to sit down for a talk about my book, The Heresy of Ham, and what I think Evangelicals need to know about the so-called “Creation/Evolution Debate.” We talked for about an hour…and a good time was had by all! Even though it has been coming up on FIVE…

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Ken Ham Fights the Pandemic (…and William Lane Craig and Phil Vischer are apparently super-spreaders)

A few days ago, Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis wrote a blog post entitled, “The 6,000 Year War,” in which he took aim at William Lane Craig and Phil Vischer (the Veggie Tales guy) for promoting compromise in the church and for “attacking” Ken Ham…because we all know that when one dares to say…

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A Response to a Reader: The Orthodox Church and YECism

A couple of weeks ago, someone sent me a message that he had written a critique of some of my earlier blog posts regarding the issues of theistic evolution, Adam and Eve, and original sin. I’ll link his critique here: An Orthodox Critique of Dr. Joel Anderson. His story seems to be pretty interesting—a former…

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James 1:6: To Doubt or Not to Doubt? (…and why Pete Enns isn’t quite right on this…and a funny story how he helped get me fired!)

Just yesterday I happened across as Tweet from Pete Enns, in which he re-posted a short post he wrote back in 2017 about James 1:6, the verse that says the following (I’ll give James 1:5-8 to provide a bit more context):   5If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously…

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“Reading While Black” by Esau McCaulley–Book Analysis Series (Part 4)

Here in my fourth and final post on Esau McCaulley’s book, Reading While Black, I am going to give a very brief overview of the final two chapters in the books and then give some final thoughts. Chapter 6: What Shall We Do with This Rage?As the title suggests, McCaulley begins this chapter by highlighting…

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“Reading While Black” by Esau McCaulley–Book Analysis Series (Part 3)

Here in my third post on Esau McCaulley’s book, Reading While Black, I’m going to look at Chapter 4, “Reading While Black—The Bible and the Pursuit of Justice,” and Chapter 5, “Black and Proud—The Bible and Black Identity.” Chapter 4: “Reading While Black—The Bible and the Pursuit of Justice”McCaulley begins this chapter by recalling the…

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“Reading While Black” by Esau McCaulley: Book Analysis Series (Part 2)

Here in my second post on Esau McCaulley’s book, Reading While Black, I am going to provide an overview chapters 2 and 3. Chapter 2 is entitled, “Freedom is No Fear: The New Testament and a Theology of Policing,” and Chapter 3 is entitled, “Tired Feet, Rested Souls: The New Testament and the Political Witness…

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