A Book by Raymond Lefebvre “The Sacrifice of Abraham” Reviewed by Romain Rolland I was trying to uncover the first uses of Antonio Gramsci’s phrase “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will” and several scholars point out that Romain Rolland used it before him and point to this article…

John Cooper from the band Skillet has recently declared war on “deconstruction.” But this is not new. …

In the past 5 years or so a word has entered the vocabulary of many former and current Conservative Christians in the US: Deconstruction. Deconstruction is a new word for an old idea of taking apart unexamined beliefs (often beliefs which built the structures of our lives) and often doing…

An abridged version of Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” given in 1852 to the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, NY: The 4th of July. It is the birthday of your National Independence…your political freedom. I am glad, fellow-citizens, that your nation is so young…There…

Last weekend I participated in a protest and passed this out to people I had conversations with: — — — — — — — — — — — - My name is Taylor. I’m prompted to write this because Calvary Chapel San Jose is hosting Tony Perkins, president of the…

In this article I try to give brief, accessible reviews of the eight above-pictured books, (two more added after I made the picture above). Underneath each of the pictures, I have provided links to the authors giving presentations related to their books. …

In the 4th century after Christ, sometime between the emperors Constantine and Theodosius, the Church became mixed up between the Hebrew idea of God and the temporarily powerful Roman Empire. Christianity was a revolutionary Hebrew prophetic movement in the first century saying, like generations of Hebrew prophets before them, that…

I learned from these books on the history of modern evangelicalism that the Christian networks/organizations I thought were for love and truth actually have their roots and trajectory in being on and preserving the wrong sides of history. (For a post regarding what I learned click here). Choices were made…

The past couple weeks I’ve been dipping in and out of a book titled From Bible Belt to Sunbelt that describes the history of the Christian Right’s development from the Bible Belt in the US American South to the US Sunbelt, which includes a center of power in Southern California…