This post is part of a series. The keynote speaker at this year’s 2018 National Disciple Making Forum in Nashville was Shodankeh Johnson, a charismatic pastor from Sierra Leone, Africa. He was quite challenging and inspiring, to say the least (you can hear an interview with...
The problem of men abusing power and abusing women is as old as, well, the “oldest profession” of prostitution. The male sexual drive is ever present across history, and often justified by those in power. Of course, one of the hallmarks of great moral leaders...
In a recent Facebook discussion, a (Iiberal) commenter asked me how I would address certain issues or public policy methods that liberals find unassailable. Here you go. Do you support heavily subsidized daycare? Do you support a $15 minimum wage? Do you support universal healthcare?...
The lack of clarity of the scriptures is a stumbling block to many, both believers and unbelievers alike. A few years back, I summarized the great theologian John Owen on this topic, but want to revisit this. Possible reasons for the lack of clarity in...
My liberal friends waste a lot of time trying to pin down Donald Trump as a fascist and racist. As I have admitted previously, Trump is old enough to carry the passive cultural racism of the previous century, but I don’t think he is a...
I get tired of the atheist canard that religion has killed more people in history than any other ideology. First, they are willing to attribute wars to Christianity that were more political than religious, and second, they are unwilling to own the atrocities of atheistic...
As a former scientist who performed DNA fingerprinting for cancer, I am keenly interested in the current state of DNA analysis and diagnosis based on it. Services like 23andMe and others promise not only to suggest possible medical conditions your genes might predispose you to,...
I resist the racist interpretation of everything conservative for a few reasons. 1. Reductionism First, it’s a sloppy reductionist approach to a complex issue. We know that conservatives and president Trump object to specific ideologies like Islam that have little to do with race. Even...
