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Starving Children in Sudan: Complicity in a Moral Tragedy

Is There A Moral Difference?   By all accounts, thousands upon thousands of children are starving in Sudan. Many of them were being kept alive by USAID which has now been terminated. By accounts of now-fired USAID employees, warehouses in the US and other countries are filled with food waiting to go to Sudan. It […]

Is There A Moral Difference?

Is There A Moral Difference? By all accounts, thousands upon thousands of children are starving in Sudan. Many of them were being kept alive by USAID which has now been terminated. By accounts of now fired USAID employees, warehouses in the US and other countries are filled with food waiting to go to Sudan. It […]

Remembering Horace Bushnell 2

Remembering the “Progessive Orthodoxy” of Horace Bushnell Part Two Bushnell was self-consciously a mediating theologian. He stood against the stream of New England Unitarianism and the accommodating liberalism while at the same time resisting the rigid orthodoxy and incipient fundamentalism of neo-Puritanism and the Princeton Theology (Alexander and Hodge). He strongly defended belief in the […]

Liberal Theology and Jesus Christ

Liberal Theology and Jesus Christ Here I continue my discussion of my book Against Liberal Theology with Chapter 5: Jesus Christ in Liberal Theology. If you have read the chapter, you may comment and/or ask a question. If you have not read the chapter, you may only ask a question. Jesus asked his disciples who […]

Horace Bushnell’s “Progressive Orthodoxy”: A Fresh Look

Remembering the “Progressive Orthodoxy” of Horace Bushnell Part One   Progressive Orthodoxy One thing I like to do here is point readers back to neglected theologians. As a historical theologian, I find many “new” proposals in theology are not that new. Often they echo theological ideas of the past even as their promoters advance them […]

Progressive Orthodoxy

Progressive Orthodoxy Remembering the “Progessive Orthodoxy” of Horace Bushnell Part One One thing I like to do here is point readers back to neglected theologians. As a historical theologian I find many “new” proposals in theology are not that new. Often they echo theological ideas of the past even as their promoters advance them as […]

God According to Liberal Theology

God According to Liberal Theology This continues my/our discussion of my book Against Liberal Theology: Putting the Brakes on Progressive Christianity. Here I take up Chapter 4: God According to Liberal Theology. If you have read the chapter you may comment. If not, only ask a question. The thesis of the chapter is: “The majority […]

Pentecostal versus Charismatic versus Prosperity Gospel

Pentecostal versus Charismatic versus Prosperity Gospel Yes, today these labels overlap. But that was not always the case. Here’s the story. The modern Pentecostal movement in America was born in 1906 at the Azusa Street Revival near downtown Los Angeles. People spoke in tongues and some identified that as the “initial, physical evidence” of the […]

The Liberal View of the Bible

The Liberal View of the Bible Here I continue discussion of my book Against Liberal Theology: Putting the Brakes on Progressive Christianity. The subject here is Chapter 3: Liberal Theology and the Bible. If you have read the chapter, you are welcome to comment (following my stated guidelines below). If you have not read the […]

The Sin of Shutting Down USAID

The Sin of Shutting Down USAID According to reliable news reports, Elon Musk has called USAID (United States Agency for International Development) a “tremendous fraud” and a barrel of worms. I know people who work for USAID and it is perhaps America’s greatest agency, saving millions of people, including children, from starvation in places like […]