Distrust of higher education has been an enduring feature of fundamentalism and evangelicalism.
Category Archives: Book Reviews
Review: The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
One cannot help but wonder… what if Nat Turner had succeeded?
Repost: Consider Your Ways
Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy.
New Book Review: Life of a Klansman
Whiteness is not a deformation of thought, but a kind of thought itself.
Faith Built On Fear: An Observation of a Christian Mind Fueled by Fear
We become enslaved by the doing of things for God to receive things from God. Christ has delivered us from these ascetic tendencies because they serve no purpose.
New Book Review: Reparations – A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair
New Review Up & Running!
Reparations: A Discussion Revisited
The action of making amends for a wrong one has done, by providing payment or other assistance to those who have been wronged.
My 2021 List of Non-Fiction Books
My reading list for 2021 is daunting and hopeless but that’s the fate of anyone who dares to read and read at length about history.
Unsettling Truths
Its only solution to our national problems is to ‘make the nation Christian again.’ But that is precisely what caused our problems in the first place.
New Book Review: The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
New Review Up & Running!
Thoughts So Far On: Talking Back To Purity Culture
I’m working my way through Rachel Joy Welcher’s book, Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality and it’s a work of art. Rachel covers the rise of “traditional values” taking over the American Christian culture in the 60s and 70s as a reactionary effort to combat the explosion of sexual liberation and theContinue reading “Thoughts So Far On: Talking Back To Purity Culture”
New Book Review: In the Closet of the Vatican
Check out my book review of this 500-plus page behemoth of an expose about homosexuality, power, and hypocrisy within the Vatican and the Curia. Written by French author and journalist, Frederic Martel. Enjoy!
New Book Review: Washington Black
Check out my book review of this heart-wrenching story of escape, survival, and self-discovery written by Canadian author Esi Edugyan. Enjoy!