Cultural appropriation—the art of appropriating aspects (songs, stories, apparel, traditions, rituals, etc.) of some (minority) culture by an entity that doesn’t inhabit that culture—seems to have secured its rank among…
My wife and I were watching a program on Netflix the other night (I won’t say what it was; it’s too embarrassing). I was struck by my own reaction, while…
Noah’s first deed upon exiting the ark — at least as recorded in Scripture — was to build an altar and offer unto God sacrifices. He did this from the…
Much that passes for Christian decision making in modern Evangelicalism strikes me as a mixture of lazy moral reasoning and illegitimate efforts to discern those “secret things” (Deut. 29:29) that…
On the surface, Paul’s observation in Philippians 1:14 that “most of the brothers” in Rome–where Paul was chained to a member of the imperial guard awaiting the outcome of his…
The problem (so to speak) with Christianity is that it places creaturely identity in the hands of the Creator rather than the creature. In other words, it holds that the…
As everyone in the Reformed world surely knows by now, 2019 marks 400 years since the Synod of Dort wrapped up proceedings and bequeathed to the Protestant Reformed family of…
I was a junior in high school when the Roseanne episode featuring a lesbian kiss aired on network television, and I can remember well the controversy that surrounded that episode.…
For several weeks I’ve been intermittently reading Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach to my kids, while dabbling (as is my wont) in the news (typically the BBC), which,…
“The false self is deeply entrenched. You can change your name and address, religion, country, and clothes. But…the false self simply adjusts to the new environment. For example, instead of…
