How To Get The Least Possible Out Of University Religion Classes
Click here to view the embedded video.Michael Kruger has made a video which describes his own experience of having taken classes with Bart Ehrman, who he depicts as attacking Christianity. He complains...
View ArticleTwo Corinthians
Donald Trump has been getting flack for saying “Two Corinthians” when referring to the work that is known as “Second Corinthians.” That is short for “Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians.” And to be...
View ArticleEvangelical Fear of Scholarship
Two different people suggested that this quote should be turned into a meme. It is from a blog post which rounded up blogging about the Christology of Mark’s Gospel, in which I also referred to and...
View ArticleBiblical Docetism
Samantha Field coined this very apt phrase for fundamentalism’s view of the Bible in a recent blog post. Here is an excerpt: To biblical docetists, cultural contexts don’t have to have any bearing on...
View ArticleBy Their Fruits You Shall Know Them
Whatever one may think of the fruits of Barack Obama as a liberal Christian, the point here is that Republicans seem unwilling to judge these two candidates according to their fruits when it comes to...
View ArticleFalse Shepherds
Steve Wiggins wrote in a recent blog post: The modern Evangelical movement no longer adheres to the teachings of the carpenter from Nazareth. The issues on which he spoke plainly and repeatedly have...
View ArticleSpit Out False Antitheses
A while back I had someone appeal to the text in Revelation about being lukewarm as part of their attempt to bolster a false antithesis. What I should have pointed out in response (but alas failed to...
View ArticleA Social Justice Shaped Hole in the Evangelical Church
Neil Carter has written such a detailed and insightful post about the history of conservative Evangelicalism and its effect in shaping the church of today, that it didn’t seem adequate to merely...
View ArticleEvangelical Consumerism, Evangelical Politics, Evangelical Culture, and...
A number of blog posts and articles have converged on aspects of Evangelical culture and identity in ways that I think it will be useful to bring into conversation with one another. The post that got...
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