Climate change is a far more contentious issue than it should be, especially in the evangelical Christian community. I understand why. Talk of climate change has been a centerpiece of left-wing politics and neopagan environmentalism for decades. And its obviousness to the average observer is often overstated; if you’re like most people, you probably haven’t noticed a major change in […]
Most of my posts are intellectual. In talking about following Christ, I’ve talked about everything from science to sociology to politics. Of my 101 posts, none of them has really been a personal post about my life. This one will be more personal. As many readers now know, my daughter was born on December 17, 2020. And as any parent […]
It’s been over three months since I last posted, which I believe is the longest I’ve gone without writing a post since I started this site back in 2017. The time has flown by. Preparing for the birth of your first child will do that to you, I suppose. But just before an election many view as one of the […]
You’ve all seen it. Maybe somebody’s worst moment was captured on film and posted to the Internet. Maybe they tweeted or posted something insensitive or even legitimately terrible. It could have been yesterday, or it could have been 30 years ago. Regardless, someone commits or is revealed to have committed some transgression—real or perceived—and they are promptly shamed the world […]
In light of everything that’s happened in the United States of America over the past couple of months–stemming from an increasing awareness of the big picture of systemic racism and oppression in American history over the last 400 years–is it appropriate to celebrate the Fourth of July as Independence Day? A few people are asking that question. To some it […]
If Christopher Columbus, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were alive today, they would be in prison for participating in human trafficking. And rightly so. The debate over the presence of statues of racist historical figures started in earnest a few years ago. At that time, the movement was focused on Confederate monuments commemorating those who fought to perpetuate the practice […]
Just a few weeks ago, I had some thoughts on the deconversion of Jon Steingard, the former lead singer of Hawk Nelson. The driving force he cited behind his deconversion was a declining view of Scripture. He came to realize, he says, that the writers of Scripture were flawed like anyone else. Therefore, Scripture itself must be flawed like any […]
For the last week, social media has consisted almost entirely of the fallout from the horrific murder of George Floyd. When the need to talk about racial relations in America becomes glaringly evident, I’m never really sure what to say. Not because I don’t abhor racism and white supremacy in all its forms, but because it seems to me so […]
Just a week or two ago, I mentioned the increasing prevalence of the “deconversion story” in popular media. A few days ago, yet another former Christian’s story started to make the rounds in every major media outlet. Jon Steingard, former lead singer of the Christian rock band Hawk Nelson, has declared he no longer believes in God. In Christian circles, […]
It seems like we’re seeing the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, for now. The curve has been flattened about as much as it can be. Although COVID-19 is going to be one of the leading causes of death this year, at this point it hasn’t been the apocalypse that some early models have predicted. After over two […]
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