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September 2024

September 09, 2024
Who Are You Calling “Demonic”? MAGA evangelicals insist democrats are demons bent on the destruction...

August 2024

August 31, 2024
Among the leaders of the false prophets of MAGA are prosperity preacher Wayne T. Jackson,...
August 28, 2024
Only the Prophets Can Save Us Now The prophets, with piercing reality, always knew when...
August 28, 2024
Keeping An Eye on Dictators and Would-Be Dictators Why a sudden interest in dictators in...

June 2024

June 08, 2024
America’s Schools Can’t Afford Evangelical Control Suppose evangelicals were told, “Merry Christmas! You get your...

May 2024

May 29, 2024
Donald Trump Is the Personification of Evil I am an evangelical Christian. I am a...
May 21, 2024
  Yes, I'm still thinking about Mother's Day. One day a year doesn't seem to...
May 21, 2024
The “Eve” Excuse Is Back The biblical story of Adam and Eve never loses its...
May 11, 2024
Responding to College Protests Against Israel My heart is heavy because I have trouble convincing...

April 2024

April 30, 2024
“Baptizing Eunuchs and Blowing Open the Door” The mention of Ethiopia always stirs my imagination....
April 30, 2024
When Praise Turns to Rant   An evangelical preacher, during Sunday worship, declares, “Before I...
April 19, 2024
Kari Lake Entertains “Strapping on a Glock” As Answer to USA’s Problems Arizona GOP Senate...
April 09, 2024
John 20:19-31   There’s a country song that insists “Somebody done somebody wrong.” The church...
April 08, 2024
Marjorie Taylor Greene has a new calling as a doom and gloom preacher. After a...
April 04, 2024
Easter in the Rhetoric of Doxology John 20:1 – 18 I have decided to preach...

March 2024

March 26, 2024
Some evangelical preachers interpret texts of Scripture with a reckless abandon. Reading tea leaves or...
March 23, 2024
Comedians Are Our Prophets The word prophet hasn’t been so popular since the original Hebrew...
March 15, 2024
Donald Trump was declared “the anointed of God” by a Pentecostal leader, Lance Wallnau. In...
March 05, 2024
Screen Free Worship Jesus cleansing the Temple elicited a more modern interpretation from me. John's...

February 2024

February 28, 2024
The Danger of a Politician Preaching a Sermon There’s an embedded illusion among people about...
February 28, 2024
The Original Magadonians The Exodus narrative, so essential to Jewish and Christian history, begins in...
February 23, 2024
Trust and Verify The lectionary lessons for the Second Sunday in Lent are an unusual...
February 20, 2024
The Prophets Speak to Evangelicals What if a group of Old Testament prophets were dropped...
February 18, 2024
When God hung the rainbow in the sky after the flood, humanity received the divine...
February 13, 2024
The Powerful Truth in Myth, Symbol, and Metaphor 2 Kings 2:1-12, 2 Corinthians 4:3-6, Mark...
February 11, 2024
Is Idolatry Our National Problem?   If the Hebrew prophets toured America this week –...
February 09, 2024
Contradictions, Explanations, and Excuses There are more instances of cognitive dissonance in our politics than...
February 09, 2024
The Eagle Has Fallen There’s an eagle in 2 Esdras 11 that faces judgment. The...
February 03, 2024
“Trouble Trouble Right Here in Church” I Corinthians 9:16-23 Clyde Edgerton’s novel Where Trouble Sleeps...

January 2024

January 29, 2024
The Church Has an Unclean Spirit Mark 1:21-45 I want to talk about a man...
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