A Great Winter Read: Steven Miller’s The Age of Evangelicalism
I read a lot of books. Most professors can make similar statements because we read for our jobs as well as for fun. I read anthropology and philosophy, religion and…
Crass Cartoon as a Capital Offense? Not in my classroom.
At least twelve people are dead in Paris because two brothers (maybe others as well) were so offended at a crass cartoon, lampooning their religion, that they decided execute some…
Multiculturalism…Get Used to It, Because it Ain’t Going Away
To paraphrase myself, and why not it's my blog, "Just as increased urbanization is likely in the coming years, we should expect our little pockets of homogeneity to be increasingly…
My 2015 New Year’s Resignations: random thoughts at this busy time of year
It's the holiday season and New Year's Resolutions take too much work (resolve) both to write and to enact. So for a few laughs and as an occasion for reflection…
Liberal Evangelicals and Secularism
In Memoriam <>The Political Career of Pauline Marois 1981-2014 OK, so I'm not above a bit of shadenfreude. But did she ever deserve to lose! Even now, more than five…
Urbanization and Liberal Evangelicalism
No, it has nothing to do with Keith Urban. (Will the jokes be this bad all season?) It has to do with a seemingly irreversible trend in human history toward…
Fall Series 2014: The Future and Liberal Evangelicalism
Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth, reintroduced a generation of Evangelicals to apocalyptic and eschatological themes that had been present in Evangelical movements from the beginning. That book made…
A Separatist Peace?
A Timely Repost: Scotland Rejects Independence from the UK Liberals of all kinds are in a tough spot at the moment. This is what happens when our moral intuitions get…
Absurdity and the Poultry Party
Break is over and it's back to the grind here in the frozen north. Classes are beginning, the ice remains, and the relative absurdity of so much of evangelical culture…
A Refreshing Conversation
The other night, when my parents were visiting from Kentucky, we all sat around the table doing as Evangelicals do: talking about the Bible. Now in our house this is…