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Divinely Commanded Child Killing, Mental Illness, and William Lane Craig

The other day, Cosmic Skeptic (Alex O’Connor) posted an interview with William Lane Craig discussing Craig’s views on the divinely commanded slaughter of the Canaanites. Paul Copan has argued in his more recent work that non-combatant Canaanites were (largely) sparred. I find Copan’s arguments to be unconvincing, but at least he seems a lot more […]

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Investigating Abuse in the Church: An Interview

I am delighted to have participated in an interview with CEO of Veritas Solutions Bob Stenhouse discussing investigations and abuse in the church for the Faith Today Podcast. Check it out! ?

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Abuse in the Church

I am delighted to have had the opportunity to co-author the lead article for the March/April edition of Faith Today Magazine discussing the problem of abuse in the church. My esteemed co-author is Bob Stenhouse, the CEO of Veritas Solutions where I work as Director of Faith-Based Organization Investigations. You can read the article here.  

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John Howard Yoder was a serial sexual predator. Stop studying him as a wise Christian ethicist

John Howard Yoder (d. 1997) remains one of the most influential Protestant theologians and ethicists of the latter twentieth century. He was also a serial sexual predator. Over several decades, he groomed women for his own sexual gratification, thereby perpetuating spiritual abuse, sexual abuse, and clergy sexual abuse. Estimates are that he abused at least […]

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Me and Billy Joel

I first became aware of Billy Joel after the release of Glass Houses in 1980. But I became a fan three years later in 1983 when my friend’s dad picked us up from school in his Camaro while blasting the An Innocent Man album on his stereo. I was mesmerized by the doo-wop style: it was […]

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Naturalism and Theism Compared and Contrasted

I stopped posting on Twitter (not “X”) in November and resolved I would not be back until the platform is no longer associated with Elon Musk. That said, I do read tweets on occasion and today I read a tweet from Ben Watkins for which I wanted to provide a quick reply. Ben’s tweet is […]

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Job in the Ring: A Review of The Iron Claw

What better way to end a year, or begin a new one, than to see a great movie? And have I got just the thing! The Iron Claw, just out in theaters, tells the tragic and deeply moving story of the legendary Von Erich family. While the film centers on the journey of Kevin von […]

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Beth Moore, Baby Killer?

As a fifty year old, cynical GenX male, I suspect I am not the primary audience for a Beth Moore book. Before I picked up her new memoir, I knew only that she was a very popular Southern Baptist Bible teacher/speaker and that she had left the Southern Baptist Convention recently under some controversy. All […]

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From Teaching to Investigating: Thoughts on My 2023

As long time readers of this blog (and there are a few of you, at least!) will know, things have been quiet of late. Back in the day I used to churn out several blog posts a week while spending countless hours interacting in the comments. All told, over the last thirteen years, I posted […]

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The John Stackhouse Case Continued: The Witnesses Speak

Yesterday, Canada’s leading evening news program, The National, broadcast a short six-minute documentary on the John Stackhouse case. What is particularly significant is that the documentary introduces two witnesses to the public: Courtney and Indira. This is significant because the original Summary of Findings of the investigation posted by Crandall University was anonymous. And as […]

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