Hi Friends! I hope you are all well and thank for being regular subscribers. As I mentioned in my last subscriber-only update in January, I set out this year with the goal of writing two books: How I Became a Christian Despite the Church The Dangers of Growing Up in a Christian Home (and how to avoid them!) Many of … Read More
Working Together Side-by-Side, Part 2 of 2
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain [fleeting] life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might… Ecclesiastes 9:9-10a, ESV Again, in order to … Read More
Working Together Side-by-Side, Part 1 of 2
We’ve only just begun to live White lace and promises A kiss for luck and we’re on our way… Sharing horizons that are new to us Watching the signs along the way Talkin’ it over, just the two of us Workin’ together day to day Together -The Carpenters, We’ve Only Just Begun I could have added this two-part series to … Read More
A Critique of Gothardism, Part 5 of 5
As an exercise in discernment, this series critiques the teaching associated with the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), Advanced Training Institute International (ATI), and specifically their founder, Bill Gothard. His teaching includes a myriad of distortions and this post addresses examples under the final two of six main areas (listed at the end of Part 1). Elevating the … Read More
A Critique of Gothardism, Part 4 of 5
As an exercise in discernment, this series critiques the teaching associated with the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), Advanced Training Institute International (ATI), and specifically their founder, Bill Gothard. His teaching includes a myriad of distortions and this post addresses examples under the fourth of six main areas (listed at the end of Part 1): A misuse of “the … Read More
A Critique of Gothardism, Part 3 of 5
As an exercise in discernment, this series critiques the teaching associated with the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), Advanced Training Institute International (ATI), and specifically their founder, Bill Gothard. His teaching includes a myriad of distortions and this post addresses examples under the third of six main areas (listed at the end of Part 1): A misuse of the … Read More
A Critique of Gothardism, Part 2 of 5
As an exercise in discernment, this series critiques the teaching associated with the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), Advanced Training Institute International (ATI), and specifically their founder, Bill Gothard. His teaching includes a myriad of distortions and this post addresses examples under the first two of six main areas (listed at the end of Part 1): the use of … Read More
A Critique of Gothardism, Part 1 of 5
Over the next five weeks, as an exercise in discernment, I’ll critique the teaching associated with the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP), Advanced Training Institute International (ATI), and specifically their founder, Bill Gothard. I believe Mr. Gothard’s teaching as a whole is a great example of a shrunken, distorted, and slightly Gnostic Christianity—in short—how not to be. As I … Read More
Getting Our Apologetic Against Pornography Right
For twenty-five years, many of us have laughed through or in spite of Joey and Chandler’s regular consumption of porn on Friends. And today, former Baywatch babe and Playmate, Pamela Anderson, is a “strange” outlier because, now that she’s gotten rich and famous off of being objectified—yet, seeming to have learned the hard way, she speaks out about pornography as “corrosive” … Read More
Dangers of Growing Up in a Christian Home: Why You Need to Know Them
The… painted perversity of this room had the effect of making him aware, as he had never been aware before, of this room’s opposite. As the desert first teaches men to love water, or as absence reveals affection, there rose up against this background of the sour and the crooked some kind of vision of the sweet and sound. The … Read More