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Ain’t it Swell to Finish Well

What can we learn from Martin Luther King Jr., George Costanza, Barack Obama, and King Jehoshaphat? Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech.  …

Church / Society

The Inevitability of Religion

Author’s Note: The following is a brief essay written back in 2011 which is only now being made public.  It is one of a series of such essays that I …

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Niebuhr on the Road

It used to be that when I would go on a long road trip, I would spend most of my time listening to music, first on my portable CD player …

Church

The Endangered Female Bible Major

Today, we turn our attention to that rarest of species, the female Bible major at an evangelical or otherwise conservative Christian university.  While male Bible majors have always been plentiful, …

Church

Thus Spake Francis

With a single question, the newly minted Pope set off a worldwide media reaction – and raised some important questions about the state of the papacy in the 21st century. …

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Aslan and Jesus

If you started reading this post thinking that it was going to be a comparison between Aslan, the unsafe but good hero of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series, and …

Church / State

Ironic Prophets

Sometimes the wrong person says the right thing – and humanity is better for it. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they …