You Know the ‘Thing:’ The Concept of Inherent Rights in the Declaration of Independence
When removing one letter in a word highlights God’s moral order for the world.
...time to pluck it out, and cut it off. Jim Fitzgerald is a Minister in the Presbyterian Church in America and a missionary in the Middle East and North Africa....
The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism
It is frustrating to see ourselves summarized through the extreme voices of… Pat Robertson and John Hagee
...example, are we referring to the ultra-conservative televangelist and one-time Republican presidential hopeful, Pat Robertson? Or, do we see Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners and vocal Obama supporter as the...
Where Evangelicals Came From
There is no mystery involved. They were always here. We were just not looking at them.
“Evangelicals” is an elastic term, and FitzGerald intermittently shrinks or stretches it. But she does direct us to the right starting point, to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Great Awakenings, major...
My Thoughts – Ten Weeks Downstream from George Floyd
Looking back to those days just ten weeks ago, I have a few more thoughts now – some from a personal perspective, some on the larger cultural moment.
...A good friend, Jim Fitzgerald, has made a good case that our culture, while historically marred by heartbreaking and deeply entrenched racism, is one of the only cultures in history...
Can You Come to Jesus Without Church? A viral video raises old theological disputes
As Mr. Barnes of “Bad Catholic” notes, this is a particularly Protestant sentiment that can be traced back to theologian Karl Barth, who often distinguished between “revelation” and religion. YouTube...
Evangelicals and Their Nietzschean National Security Nightmare
The fact that our government and NATO see all their decisions and actions after the Cold War as infallible is proof of their belief in their own divinity.
NATO has absorbed nearly all the former Warsaw Pact countries and Baltic states that were once aligned with the former Soviet Union. To channel Mearsheimer one more time, America and...
Dobson 2.0: As the good doctor leaves Focus, his son talks about a second coming
...be no second acts in America, as F. Scott Fitzgerald famously claimed, but that’s clearly not the case in the Colorado Springs evangelical community. Last year, exiled New Life Church...
“Do You Get the Picture?”—Classic Christmas Films through the Lens of Creation, Fall, and Redemption
...which Barrymore was cast in a more likable role for me to get over this type cast. Well, you know the story: Jimmy Stewart can’t escape the small town destiny...
Midnight in Paris and the Pull of Nostalgia
...Scott Fitzgerald (and Zelda), Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. And, of course, he falls in love. The film is entertaining enough, although not nearly so as Hemingway’s book...
Thoughts on ‘Midnight in Paris’
...in some sort of time-travel to 1920s Paris. I don’t think I’m giving much away by telling you he meets F. Scott Fitzgerald (and Zelda), Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, and...