Welcome to Part 3 of my book analysis of Dan McClellan’s book, The Bible Says So. Let’s just jump right back into Chapter 3 and see how far we get in this post. 3: The Bible Says God Created the Universe Out of NothingEleven years ago, I was dealing with a certain fundamentalist YECist headmaster…
As I go through The Bible Says So by Dan McClellan, I will essentially be having a “conversation” with it—a running commentary, if you will. Now, there are 19 chapters in the book, so there is no way I will be able to provide a completely in-depth analysis of every chapter without ending up writing…
Over the next couple of weeks, I am going to write an extended book analysis of Dan McClellan’s new book, The Bible Says So. In all honesty, I fear that I am not going to enjoy writing it. I also fear I might get snarky at times. I have occasionally written about various videos McClellan…
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 of partisanship, I have also begun reading Dan McClellan’s new book, The Bible Says So? Recently, he did some sort of podcast with Enns about his…
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 part in his criticism of these pastors, it got me thinking about what I feel is an underlying problem within Evangelicalism and ex-Evangelicalism alike:…
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 my time. That, plus the fact I simply didn’t have anything pressing to write about. Now that summer is here, I’m going to try…
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 give my reflections and thoughts on the book as a whole, as well as what I feel are the underlying issues that have made…
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 and ‘Genocide,’” in which, among other things, he discusses the Canadian residential schools. The issue of these residential schools has been a major flashpoint of controversy on…
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 Equality, Cultural Superiority, and Racism”) and Chapter 4 (“Land, Settlers, and Conquest”). I want to write no more than two posts after this one. Chapter 3: Human…
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 “Rhodes Must Fall” and “Black Lives Matter” movements regarding colonialism and slavery—namely that colonialism and slavery are inseparable and that white supremacy was at the root of it all. Biggar…