One of the books I read over the summer was Michael Heiser’s book, Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness. In many ways, it is very similar to his earlier book, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. A few years ago, I wrote a short book analysis…
Twenty years ago, on the morning of September 11th, 2001, at 6:55 am pacific time, I was sleeping in my basement apartment in Langley, British Columbia. September 11th was going to be the first day of classes at Trinity Western University, where I was about to start my second master’s program, this one in the…
Earlier this summer, before I decided to take the time to read the three books I have covered in this series on critical race theory, I didn’t feel I really knew enough about it to say anything about it. I had heard a few talking heads on cable news decry it as Marxist and racist…
We now come to Part 7 of my look at Critical Race Theory, specifically my critique of the arguments in Ibram X. Kendi’s book, How to be an Antiracist. Although he is not technically a critical race theorist, it is safe to say that his book, indeed he entire outlook, is derived from the basic…
We now come to what I expect will be the final two posts of my series on Critical Race Theory. In my first three posts, I looked at the book, Critical Race Theory, and in posts 4-5, I looked at Robin DiAngelo’s book, White Fragility. My primary goal has been to clearly articulate the major…
In my last post, I articulated the main argument, claims, and terms Robin DiAngelo makes in her best-selling book, White Fragility. For reference, here are the links to Parts 1-4:Part 1: Too Hot to HandlePart 2: Storytelling and IntersectionalityPart 3: CRT Today-Is It Marxist? Part 4: A Summary of “White Fragility” Here in this post,…
Here in the next part of my series looking at critical race theory, I am going to take two posts to look at Robin DiAngelo’s best-selling book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. For reference, here are the links to Parts 1-3:Part 1: Too Hot to HandlePart 2:…
Here in Part 3 of my series on Critical Race Theory, I am going to look at the last three chapters of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic’s book, Critical Race Theory. Chapter 6 is entitled, “Critiques and Responses to Criticism,” Chapter 7 is entitled, “Critical Race Theory Today,” and Chapter 8 is simply, “Conclusion.” Again,…
Here in Part 2 of my series on Critical Race Theory, I am going to look at chapters 3-5 of the book Critical Race Theory. As I said before in Part 1, my goal in these first three posts about the book Critical Race Theory is simply to clearly explain what the critical race theorists…
A few months ago, within the span of about a week, two separate people texted me and asked me what my opinion of Critical Race Theory (CRT) was and if I would ever consider writing a few blog posts on it. My answer was simple: I don’t really know enough about it to spout my…