Jim Bakker Dead At 86
Jim Bakker died and now they’re all gone. Tammy Faye Bakker died a long time ago…Paul and Jan Crouch are gone as is Jimmy Swaggart. It’s hard to imagine today how big these ministries...
Category: Commentary
“Bible Believing Church”: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
“Bible Believing Church” You hear it all the time: “We are a Bible-believing church.” It is a familiar declaration, especially in certain evangelical circles, and taken at face value it deserves respect. Christians ought...
Things I Think…
1. When will Christians learn that Christian celebrities have one goal…which is to make bank off other Christians. The latest grifter is Tim Tebow who gave up trying to convince pro football teams that...
Nothing Held in Reserve: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Nothing Held in Reserve Professor James Atkinson was one of the preeminent interpreters of Martin Luther in the last century. He was also a dear friend with whom I shared many adventures throughout the...
Reclaiming Our God-Engineered Biology: Introducing Dr. Peggy Philips and The Lighthouse Project
We’ve spent a long, long time here dealing with spiritual abuse and the trauma that follows. What we haven’t done is provide resources to help people heal. A couple of months ago, I had...
In Defense Of Evangelicalism: A Review
The actual title of the book under review is In Defense of Evangelicalism: A Response to Its Cultured Despisers. I suppose that response would include me, though we can certainly debate how “cultured” I...
Making God Believable: Duane W.H. Arnold, PhD
Making God Believable When Etty Hillesum, the young Dutch writer who would die at Auschwitz, was preparing to leave the transit camp at Westerbork for the train that would carry her eastward, she scribbled...
Things I Think…
1. The deaths of Wendell Berry and Annie Dillard leave a huge void in our societal consciousness and thinking…though few seem to want to think like these writers invited us to… 2....
Some Things Are Still Not Easy: Duane W. H. Arnold, PhD
Some Things Are Still Not Easy In the early 1990s, I was on the staff of a church in New York City. As part of my pastoral responsibilities, I made pastoral calls at a...
The Commons: 09/12/2026
What a strange time we live in. Interest in bible translations is exploding through multiple YouTube outlets and I’m getting all kinds of questions…that you may not like the answers to. I say it...
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