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June 2025

June 19, 2025
I have been reading a relatively new book about the meaning of “image of God”...
June 16, 2025
Here I continue my discussion of Rodney Clapp’s book Living Out of Control: Political and...
June 14, 2025
Civil Religion in America Here I have been discussing Rodney Clapp’s book Living Out of...
June 11, 2025
Martin Luther King believed and said that “man’s law” is not the “higher law” and...
June 09, 2025
  This is another installment of the current book discussion of Living Out of Control:...
June 05, 2025
The conspiracy to assassinate Hitler was wider and deeper than many people realize. One of...
June 02, 2025
In Chapter Two (of the book currently under discussion here—Living Out of Control by Rodney...

May 2025

May 29, 2025
  Recently, according to news reports, a leading mega church pastor and evangelist with close...
May 27, 2025
This is a follow-up and clarification of my two recent posts in which I talked...
May 25, 2025
Here I continue ongoing discussion of the book Living Out Of Control: Political and Personal...
May 22, 2025
A true story. Some years ago I was invited to serve on a community task...
May 21, 2025
Whether “Christendom” is necessarily and always bad depends on what it means. Anyway, that is...
May 18, 2025
Here I begin discussion of a new book: Living Out of Control: Political and Personal...
May 16, 2025
What Is “Knowledge?” I have discussed here before my views about truth, certainty, and doubt....
May 13, 2025
  Christian Thoughts about Doubt Frederick Buechner famously wrote that “Doubts are the ants in...
May 10, 2025
Beginning on Monday, May 19 I will launch a new book discussion here. The chosen...
May 08, 2025
Here is my recipe for growing a church. It is based on my own observations...
May 05, 2025
Another Evangelical Anxiety My recent post here was about white American evangelical anxieties of the...
May 02, 2025
Evangelical Anxieties I grew up “in the thick of” white American evangelical Christianity in the...

April 2025

April 29, 2025
Jesus and the “Aliens” Recently, I posted here a long list of Old Testament scripture...
April 25, 2025
Scripture Passages about Aliens (Migrants); Foreigners Hebrew “nekar” Exodus 22:21 (NRSV) 21 You shall not...
April 23, 2025
Good Education What is “good education?” Of course, like so many words, “education” has different...
April 20, 2025
Here I return to discussion of theologian Adam Kotsko’s book Neoliberalism’s Demons: The Political Theology...
April 18, 2025
By many accounts, Adolf Hitler was a nice man. I have read many books about...
April 16, 2025
Lately I have been reviewing some old readings, ones I read and studied years ago:...
April 13, 2025
Here I continue discussion of the book Neoliberalism’s Demons: The Political Theology of Late Capital...
April 10, 2025
Why Calvinism Cannot Be True I have written about this before—why Calvinism cannot be true....
April 09, 2025
One way in which some well-meaning but misguided persons have attempted to resolve the seemingly...
April 07, 2025
Here I continue discussion of theologian Adam Kotsko’s book Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology...
April 04, 2025
Only the Weak Will Fail “Only the weak will fail.” (Donald Trump) “Power Without Empathy...
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