The most important thing a Dad can do for his kids
I was married young… too young. To be honest, our relationship did not get off to a great start. I think most of the time when a couple marries at nineteen and has a child …
Faith
Separating the sheep from the gloats: Lamenting Evangelicals’ response to abortion reversal
With the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the United States Supreme Court, evangelical cultural warriors are rejoicing, even gloating, over this political victory. And make no mistake, this is a political victory made possible …
My Testimony…Hope Story…Why I Believe
If you have spent any time in the evangelical church, you have heard people talk about sharing their Christian testimony. If you don’t know what that means, a person’s testimony is basically their story of …
The Shaping of Me: Discovering Jesus Amongst Complexity
My own spiritual pilgrimage began at an early age. I grew up in a home with a true evangelist for a dad. David Allbritton was a fiery preacher who cared deeply for people being “born …
Stranger Things than Fiction: The Real Stories Behind Stranger Thing’s Satanic Panic
Stranger Things returned to Netflix with the first seven episodes of its fourth season in May 2024. Matt and Ross Duffer’s series has offered fans a mixture of horror and sci-fi with a massive dose …
A Eulogy For The Public Testimony of The Evangelical Church in America
My wife, at times, talks about a funeral she went to as a child where the eulogy praised the virtues of a person so that she didn’t even recognize the description of that individual. I …
Six Things the “Burning Man” Festival Teaches Us About Postmodernity
The postmodern generation is emerging, and they are all looking for community and some form of mystic togetherness. This search for belonging comes with desires for liberation, social activism, and artsy, spiritual expressions that appear …
Taking The Lord’s Name in Vain…What’s Trump Got to Do With It?
Trump’s Christians I have a lot of respect for Miroslav Volf. I typically find his perspective rather insightful. But, like all of us, he can go too far sometimes. He recently shared a comment on …
An Evangelical addiction to strength
I wonder sometimes how much our religious focus as evangelicals relates to what we find in scripture. Certainly, at the heart of evangelicalism is the greek word euaggelion (good news) and as evangelicals, we strive to …
Once America the beautiful is now America the gun
It seems that in America, guns have replaced God as a source of confidence, comfort, and protection in times of trouble–and with deadly consequences. Like the lamentation of the Psalm 20:7, we have misplaced our …