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I enjoy having full comments moderation turned on here at Extra Thoughts. It allows me to filter the nastiness I get in response to posts li...

This post isn't going to rise to my usual level of deep commentary. But I can't resist. I have just one deep comment on the last f...

Here is a good hymn text sorely in need of a new tune. And now the wants are told, that brought thy children to thy knee; here lingering s...

My apologies to my readers for being away from this blog for so long. Here's a meaty apologetics/New Testament post to make up for the h...

As the bullying gears up all over the country to whip people in line to vote for D.T., I am struck yet again by something that strikes me ev...

I have a new post up at What's Wrong With the World on an argument for the veracity of the gospels from the reticence of the evangelist...

The claims by "trans" activists are so blatantly postmodern, so riddled with incoherence, that most of the time I don't bother...

Over at W4 I reported on the insane, repressive new laws just passed against "missionary activity" in Russia. Here's another ...

This new push to downplay pedophilia was shared with appropriate outrage on Facebook lately. What I want to point out here is the danger ...

In case there are any readers who follow Extra Thoughts but not What's Wrong With the World, my relatively recent post at W4 about a lo...

I will be speaking this Saturday at a free webinar on undesigned coincidences in the gospels and Acts, hosted by Online Apologetics Academy ...

The aftermath of the recent jihad murders in Orlando, like the aftermath of every other mass shooting (and for that matter every celebrity ...

Another jihad mass murder has happened recently, this time targeting a homosexual bar. What is one to say? It's all been said before. Th...

I have raised a number of doubts about the facile use of "genre" as a response to allegations of discrepancies in the gospels. I ...

I've been thinking lately about deconversion stories. If one hangs around on the Internet long enough, one certainly runs across them. A...

Up at W4: A post on a new undesigned coincidence in John 1.

I have a new post up at What's Wrong with the World on the theories of New Testament scholar Michael Licona. One of the things that su...

The news last night that not only had D.T. won the Republican primary in Indiana but also that Ted Cruz had suspended his campaign came as a...

A few weeks ago, on Passion Sunday, it came to me in a flash that all of God's generosity, his gift of the "blessings of this life,...