Why We Pray Even When “God Isn’t Fixing This”
No doubt all of us are aware of the disparaging remarks that were made about prayer in the aftermath of last week’s... Read More
Five Theses on the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Christians should be personally sympathetic to the plight of those who are truly persecuted and traumatized by the effects of war, especially... Read More
The Displeasures of God: Shenanigans of a Christian Masochist?
We’ve been hearing a lot of warnings these last few years about the coming persecution of Christians. And a look around the... Read More
“Convictions”: A Rogue Set in Christian Theology
As an instructor in Systematic Theology I sometimes have conversations (whether formal or informal) over the merits of some point of theology... Read More
The Pope’s Problem: A Reprise
The pope is finally gone and I am happier for it. He has practically no redeeming qualities and has left a trail... Read More
What About Life on Mars?
The scientific community is abuzz this week with the announcement that liquid water has been confirmed on Mars. Of course scientists have... Read More
No We Are Not Together
With all of the hullabaloo this week over the visit of antichrist (not THE antichrist, mind you, but surely one who most... Read More
Ethics or Theological Subscription as the Ground of Functional Christian Fellowship?
A couple of weeks ago Union University made news by practicing secondary separation (or at least what fundamentalists have been pummeled over... Read More
Homosexuality: What Believers May Rightly Hope from Their Government
I cannot compete with the vast onslaught of blog heavyweights who have all, it seems, trained their guns on last week’s SCOTUS... Read More
Whatever Happened to Literal Hermeneutics? (Part 5)
Having laid out in the previous several posts what I believe may be commended as “received laws of language,” I would like... Read More