An Editor’s Take on Megan Basham’s ‘Shepherds for Sale’
September 2, 2024 Everybody loves an editor. (Ha, that’s the closest you’ll get to an editor joke.) The truth is, nobody likes being told all the ways they could have said what they said better. But it’s also true that every writer needs a good editor, which is why I never like to publish or […]
How Should We View Races and Ethnicities?
This is Question #3 in Carol M. Swain’s Countercultural Living: The Teachings of Jesus on Life, Marriage, Race, Gender, and Materialism.
The Long March through the Institutions of Society
On an almost daily basis, I talk to friends who lead churches around the USA who are trying to understand what is happening in our culture and how to help the people in their churches to be faithful to Jesus in light of what is happening. It seems like the basic framework and foundations of […]
On Gender and the Bible: Where Does Egalitarianism Lead? (Part 9)
Books which propose a “third way,” whether Christian or secular, can easily come across with a bit of arrogance. Many of you are too liberal and the rest of you are too conservative, but I’ve figured out the perfect balance between the two, they seem to say. However, with secular philosophies like Critical Theory and […]
Critical Race Theory: Check Box Identity
This is Part 5 of a 5-part series on Critical Race Theory. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4. In 2017, Damon Young wrote an article titled “Straight Black Men are the White People of Black People.” In it he argued that straight black men enjoy the same type of privilege over black women […]
Critical Race Theory: Empathy and Narrative
This is Part 4 in a 5-part series on Critical Race Theory. Here’s Part 1, 2, 3, and 5. My son got his driver’s license this fall. For a year leading up to that day, my son and I spent hours together driving the roads of southwest Missouri. I loved having my son as a […]
Critical Race Theory: Privilege and Systemic Racism
This is Part 3 in Chad Ragsdale’s series on CRT. Here’s Part 1, 2, 4, and 5. In my third post reflecting on Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic’s Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, I take a look at the second chapter of the book, “Hallmark Critical Race Theory Themes.” In the chapter, the authors summarize […]
Critical Race Theory: Bitter Roots
This is Part 2 in Chad Ragsdale’s series on CRT. For Part 1 “Critical Race Theory: Friend or Foe,” click here. Here’s Part 3, 4, and 5. What is critical race theory and where does it come from? Delgado and Stefancic begin to answer this question in the introduction to their book Critical Race Theory: […]
