Trump, A Great Awakening, and the Refounding of America

Trump, A Great Awakening, and the Refounding of America

If you’re not one of my multitude of fans, all three of them, you won’t know this is the subtitle of the book I published last year, Going Back to Find the Way Forward. As we see things unfolding in Trump’s second term, I’m thinking I might be some sort of prophet....
We Went from Negative to Positive World in One Day!

We Went from Negative to Positive World in One Day!

For those not familiar with the phrase “negative world,” it comes from Aaron Renn who wrote a piece for First Things in early 2022 titled, “The Three Worlds of Evangelism.” He lays out his assessment of where American culture was at the time: As I laid out back in...
The History of Pietism and Christian Cultural Irrelevance

The History of Pietism and Christian Cultural Irrelevance

Pietism is the most important development in the history of Christianity most Christians have never heard of. It wasn’t high on my radar either until a few years back when I began to learn about its contribution to the rise of secularism in Western culture. Because of...
Burying Our Dead: Is Cremation Christian?

Burying Our Dead: Is Cremation Christian?

The inspiration for this post is the cremation question I saw on Twitter by a guy who goes by the handle, Smash Baals. It became quite the lively discussion and a lot of people expressed strong opinions one way or the other. The back and forth had an interesting...