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, […]
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