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Category Archives: Cultural Engagement

Can We Leave Sexual Immorality and Pride in It Out of Sports, Please?

So I’ve really enjoyed following Mark Appel’s comeback. As I clicked around I got to the Philadelphia Phillies twitter account, which has gone full rainbow, apparently in celebration of Pride month. Here’s the email I sent to them asking that they leave politics and sexual immorality out of sports. This applies to all sports. We …

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Posted byJMHJune 30, 2022Posted inCultural Engagement

J. K. Rowling Tells the Truth . . . In Her Fiction

J. K. Rowling tells the truth in her fiction. Her twitter feed is another matter. Perhaps the limitations of the genre don’t allow her to communicate the nuance, sensitivity, and charity that characterize her fiction. Whatever the case, there’s a chasm between what she writes in her novels and what she tweets. In her fiction, …

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Posted byJMHJuly 18, 2017Posted inCultural Engagement, Literature

An Open Letter to Airbnb on Their Bias and Discrimination

This morning I received an email from Airbnb on their new Church Covenant, er, “community commitment.” As I have settled convictions against their statement of faith and cannot live by their church covenant, I am happy to resign my membership in their church. I do so with the following open letter: Dear Airbnb, Your new …

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Posted byJMHOctober 31, 2016October 31, 2016Posted inCultural Engagement, Current Events, Marriage1 Comment on An Open Letter to Airbnb on Their Bias and Discrimination

Will Following Jesus Make You Liberal?

Susie Meister has explained how studying religion made her a liberal, with the result that she left the right, stopped voting Republican, and started voting Democrat. I want to provide an accurate summary of her concerns and try to provide the kind of things I would say in response if I knew her: if I …

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Posted byJMHFebruary 24, 2016Posted inCultural Engagement, Current Events, Discipleship, Jesus

Don’t Try to Learn History from the Movies

Edward Rothstein asks, “Whose History Is It, Anyway?” in the Wall Street Journal, and don’t miss this important section on the recent movie “Selma”: “Selma” is more complicated. You might conclude from the film that President Lyndon Johnson’s staff was untrustworthy on civil rights, while Johnson himself was actually nefarious, regardeding Martin Luther King Jr. …

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Posted byJMHFebruary 21, 2015Posted inArt, Cultural Engagement, Current Events1 Comment on Don’t Try to Learn History from the Movies

CBMW National Conference

There’s a ton of good stuff available from the CBMW National Conference. Check it out here.

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Posted byJMHMay 1, 2014Posted inBible and Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events20 Comments on CBMW National Conference

China’s Great Leap Forward: Will Central Planning Produce Human Flourishing?

Have you heard references to the “failed policies of the past”? I always wonder if they think, as it seems, that freedom is the failed policy of the past. It seems that many in our culture want to replace freedom with more governmental control of all of life. Ironically, that’s the failed policy of the past. John Lewis Gaddis …

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Posted byJMHApril 28, 2014May 22, 2014Posted inCultural Engagement, Current Events, History

How to Condone What the Bible Condemns: Matthew Vines Takes on the Old Testament

[Note: An edited version of this post was published in the e-book, God and the Gay Christian? A Response to Matthew Vines] Matthew Vines doesn’t throw his knockout punch at the beginning of his book but at the end. The book’s final sentence says of condoning same-sex relations as moral and good: “As more believers are …

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Posted byJMHApril 25, 2014April 22, 2014Posted inBiblical Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events12 Comments on How to Condone What the Bible Condemns: Matthew Vines Takes on the Old Testament

God Issued the Prohibition, Not the Church

In his book God and the Gay Christian, Matthew Vines assumes that he is correct to call sin righteous, slanders the Bride of Christ, and speaks as though sin produces lasting joy when he writes, “the church’s condemnation of same-sex relationships seemed to be harmful to the long-term wellbeing of most gay people. . . . …

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Posted byJMHApril 24, 2014April 23, 2014Posted inCultural Engagement, Current Events, Discipleship2 Comments on God Issued the Prohibition, Not the Church

How Matthew Vines Defends God and the Gay Christian

Jonathan Merritt hosted a “conversation” between Albert Mohler and Matthew Vines, but it wasn’t really a conversation. Mohler and Vines answered questions Merritt posed. Merritt gives the last word to Vines, awarding him the Proverbs 18:17 advantage, “The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.” Matthew Vines seems …

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Posted byJMHApril 23, 2014Posted inCultural Engagement, Current Events, Discipleship37 Comments on How Matthew Vines Defends God and the Gay Christian

Matthew Vines Misrepresents the Apostle Peter

In his book God and the Gay Christian, Matthew Vines wrongly suggests that the view that same-sex relations are sinful is a bad tree bearing the bad fruit of hurt feelings in the lives of people dealing with same sex attraction. He bases this argument on a misreading of Matthew 7:15–20, and on his bad exegesis he builds …

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Posted byJMHApril 23, 2014April 23, 2014Posted inCultural Engagement, Current Events, Discipleship17 Comments on Matthew Vines Misrepresents the Apostle Peter

Matthew Vines Misunderstands Jesus

The new book by Matthew Vines, God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships (you read that oxymoron right) releases today, and simultaneous with its release comes a book conceived and edited by R. Albert Mohler Jr., God and the Gay Christian? A Response to Matthew Vines. Dr. Mohler wrote the introduction, I …

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Posted byJMHApril 22, 2014April 22, 2014Posted inCultural Engagement, Current Events, Discipleship20 Comments on Matthew Vines Misunderstands Jesus

A Selection of Logical Fallacies from God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines

In my contribution to the e-book God and the Gay Christian? A Response to Matthew Vines, I suggest that Vines has made pervasive use of logical fallacies. The following is a sampling of the logical and rhetorical fallacies Vines employs. This list could easily be lengthened, almost indefinitely. Vines has assumed the conclusion that embracing …

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Posted byJMHApril 22, 2014April 22, 2014Posted inCultural Engagement, Current Events15 Comments on A Selection of Logical Fallacies from God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines

Suffering in the Book of Revelation: Fulfilling the Messianic Woes

In the most recent issue of The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology I have an article entitled “Suffering in Revelation: The Fulfillment of the Messianic Woes.” Here’s the opening paragraph: In Revelation, John writes as one in affliction (Rev 1:9), to churches in affliction (e.g., 2:10, 13), about the affliction that will take place before kingdom …

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Posted byJMHApril 2, 2014Posted inBiblical Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events, Discipleship7 Comments on Suffering in the Book of Revelation: Fulfilling the Messianic Woes

Answers in Genesis and Biblical Theology

Steve Ham of Answers in Genesis interviewed me on Biblical Theology. I posted Part 1 recently, and Part 2 has now been made available.

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Posted byJMHJanuary 29, 2014January 25, 2014Posted inBiblical Theology, Cultural Engagement1 Comment on Answers in Genesis and Biblical Theology

Augustine on Rome’s Real Weakness

Collin Garbarino started a reading group to go through Augustine’s City of God this year. Augustine’s argument about what really brought Rome down could be spoken of today’s world power: Well may they scoff, utter scamps and railers as they are, far from truebred sons of those very Romans even, who have to their credit many …

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Posted byJMHJanuary 20, 2014Posted inCultural Engagement, Current Events6 Comments on Augustine on Rome’s Real Weakness

Spanish Translation of “The Church Militant and Her Warfare”

How can the church influence the wider culture and politics? That’s the question I tackle in my essay, “The Church Militant and Her Warfare.” Saul Sarabia Lopez has now translated this essay into Spanish: La Iglesia Militante y su Guerra: No Somos Otro Grupo de Interés Here is the growing list of his other translations, for which …

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Posted byJMHJanuary 17, 2014January 13, 2014Posted inBiblical Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events, Discipleship4 Comments on Spanish Translation of “The Church Militant and Her Warfare”

The 2013 Issachar Award: For the Book that Best Understands the Times and Teaches What God’s People Should Do

Tis the season when the books of the year are being announced, and in that spirit here at For His Renown I’m inaugurating The Issachar Award, so named for the reference in 1 Chronicles 12:32 to the “the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do” (NAS). The Issachar …

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Posted byJMHDecember 17, 2013December 16, 2013Posted inBible and Theology, Books, Cultural Engagement, Current Events4 Comments on The 2013 Issachar Award: For the Book that Best Understands the Times and Teaches What God’s People Should Do

The Gospel Is Political: Thornbury on How Revelation is Hayekian

Greg Thornbury, President of King’s College, nails it in this interview with Forbes. Commenting on how Christians can be relevant to our culture, Thornbury says of the post WW2 situation: ‘Those who looked in the face of totalitarianism and fascism and a century of holocaust and said, “What are the ideas that keep people free?” …

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Posted byJMHOctober 10, 2013Posted inBiblical Theology, Cultural Engagement, Current Events5 Comments on The Gospel Is Political: Thornbury on How Revelation is Hayekian

Hot and Holy: CT Interviews Denny Burk

Denny Burk has an important new book out titled What Is the Meaning of Sex? (Covenant Eyes keeps blocking the Amazon page) Christianity Today has interviewed Denny about the book. Here’s a bit of the first exchange: So. What is the meaning of sex? The reigning sexual ethic reflects a tongue-in-cheek lyric from Sheryl Crow: “If …

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Posted byJMHOctober 2, 2013Posted inBible and Theology, Books, Cultural Engagement, Current Events, Discipleship7 Comments on Hot and Holy: CT Interviews Denny Burk

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