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Bad Ideas: Biblical Inerrancy
Some seem to believe that if the scriptures were composed under the guidance of a perfect being, they must themselves be perfect. Yet is that really the case?
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Bad Ideas: The Mark of the Beast
Patty vs. The Minions of the Antichrist t’s a Wednesday evening, around the time of the Gulf War. I’m in a narrow rectangular room with around fifteen other boys, members of our church’s Boy’s Brigade group (a Christian version of the Boy Scouts). A television and VCR are positioned at one end of the room…
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The ‘Deconstruction’ Thing vs. ‘Assurance’
There was a kind of calculus in operation in the evangelical churches in which I grew up. The equations had been balanced, the variables accounted for, the formulas distilled. Questions and problems of theology had been answered and resolved, then slotted neatly into clockwork systems, with every ‘t’ crossed and every ‘i’ dotted.
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The ‘Deconstruction’ Thing: Maybe it’s God’s Work
Are there in evangelicalism enough question marks, enough bad habits, enough dubious practices, enough blind spots, enough patches and shortcuts and hacks and rotting beams and decaying joists, that deconstruction is necessary? And if that’s the case, then could deconstruction be God’s work?
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Female Submission: Let’s Stop Doing as the Romans Do
When it comes to the position of women in complementarian and fundamentalist circles, we think and act a lot less like Christians and a lot more like Romans.
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Enslaved to Civic Freedom
‘Freedom’ is a common and hackneyed word on the lips of so-called ‘Christian nationalists‘.1 It echoes from pulpits. It simmers on social media. It entitles a rock-star worship leader like Sean Feucht to wander the United States like a patriot missionary, preaching the good news of civic freedom to his groupies, and singing a few…
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