Category: Church

• Evangelical: Leave It or Love It?

  There’s not one verse in the Bible where God says to the church: “and you shall call yourselves, “evangelicals”. Not one. There’s not even a verse for “Christian”. That ancient…

  

• A House Built On Sand

  More has been stolen from survivors by the SBC than I gave to the SBC as a pastor. I spent a decade in the SBC. I studied in its seminaries,…

  

• Spilling The Tea On Evangelicalism

  I’ve been wanting to write this article for awhile. There’s something about tea that makes for a really good analogy to explain the wild theological ethics coming out of American…

  

• Better Talk On Deconstruction

  I hesitate to wade into these waters. But it’s a risk worth taking. Plus there’s a Disney analogy ahead, so there’s that. Some see a threat to evangelicalism in the…

  

• The Moral Problem Of Seeing Nazi Germany Everywhere

  The Third Reich is everywhere in today’s political pandemic rhetoric. This rhetoric warns that the pandemic is turning America into Hitler’s Germany. A constant comparison to Nazi Germany is a…

  

• Masks, Tyranny, and Our Evangelical Inheritance

  Why do some white American evangelicals default to tyranny when it comes to masks, and not responsibility to our neighbor? Why, in these churches, is racism a spiritual issue only,…

  

• Hope For, But Not In, Evangelicalism

  I still believe the best days for Evangelicalism are ahead, not behind. But I say this well aware that Evangelicalism in the United States is experiencing a multi-faceted crisis of…

  

• Southern Baptists: On the Brink of Reform?

  The 2021 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was always going to be historic. It promised to reveal the pulse of America’s largest Protestant denomination, as well as…

  

• Truth From The Dark Places of Church

  There’s a line from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness that I can’t shake. “This also has been one of the dark places of the earth.” The place? London. A place…

  

• A Modern Parable for American Evangelicalism

  The sports world is still talking about the second title fight between Muhammad Ali and Sonny Liston in 1965. In all this, I believe, is a parable of modern American…