Month: September 2021

Critical Theory, Christianity, and Justice with a Capital J.

Given almost any odds, I would take the bet that you’ve heard of Critical Race Theory from somewhere lately. What used to trickle through college lectures is now pouring out in elementary classrooms. It’s in corporate team building exercises and commercials. All of a sudden, probably because mainstream news started picking up the topic, you …

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Episode 67: Pastors and Churches Aren’t Too Big to Fail

Sermon Plagiarism, Mars Hill, And True Repentance https://youtu.be/u-DPyqJsLSE In this back porch pod, we discuss some Christian cultural events currently making big news waves (even outside of the church). The controversy surrounding Ed Litton, plagiarism of sermons, and the SBC parallels the currently re-hashing controversy of Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll (now popularized in a …

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Episode 66: Keeping Up With The Jones (Living Aspirationally)

https://youtu.be/ydADMpokQjU What do we do with our desire to fit in, get ahead, and look best? An old Puritan teaching warns against “living aspirationally.” What does that mean, exactly? How do we spot the desire to “keep up” in our lives, and how to we steer clear of the danger of pursuing “impressive-ness?” Recommendation: Warhorn …

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