Category: Culture
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Inerrancy is the Problem Behind the Problems – Part 3
But what happens when the book we’re standing on starts to feel unstable? What happens when weak points appear in the ways we were instructed to read biblical texts? What happens when the so-called ‘doctrine’ of inerrancy we were taught begins to reveal its flaws? What now? What do we do with the Bible?
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Inerrancy is the Problem Behind the Problems – Part 2
In the minds of so many evangelicals, God may as well have swung a pocket watch in front of the biblical writers, telling them they were feeling “very sleepy”, then dictated word for word the text they were to compose. Or better yet, simply shoved those writers aside, saying He’d “take it from here”, dipped…
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Conquest Christianity
I’ve come to wonder if a ‘conquest’ mindset within evangelicalism has made it especially susceptible to the allure of nationalism. The drive to occupy and control territory, the gathering of souls around a flag, the call to work for the glory of the nation, the promise of a future ‘utopia’ for the true believers –…
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Why Trumpism Reminds Me of Maoism
History indeed repeats itself in strange ways. And I can’t help but think Trump is just Mao in a three-piece suit instead of, well, a Mao suit.
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No, We Don’t Know What’s Going to Happen – and That’s a Gift
Humans can’t predict the future. Rather than fret about what the Trump administration may or may not do, let’s choose how we want to live.
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Can We Find Christian Hope in a Trump Victory?
With each successive layer, Evangelicals might just bury their own system a little deeper. Perhaps another Trump presidency will show that American Evangelicalism is a long-dead corpse, the plug of whose life-support should have been mercifully kicked out of the wall decades ago, a corpse that deserves to be buried. And many more who don’t…
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#10: U.S. History and Two Religions for the Price of One
Students in public schools and I were essentially co-worshippers in the same religion: the religion of nationalism – one with its own saints, scriptures, sacred shrines and holy days. Christian nationalism’s only innovation was to overlay Christian tenets and pretend the two religions were one.
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The Led Zeppelin Liturgy
Glory to the Father of the four winds, who fills our sails As we cross the sea of years.
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#6: A Rush of Blood to the Head
Fortunately, I had someone willing to shepherd me through the valley of darkness of the Clinton presidency. Someone conveniently located on both the radio and television dials!
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#4: The Doctrine of Elections
This was a collective dark night of the soul for my youth group compatriots and me. And it was all thanks to an election.