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The State of Theology Survey and Trouble with the Trinity

As I noted in my previous post on the 2025 Ligonier/Lifeway State of Theology Survey, the statement to which most…
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Modern Worldviews and the Deity of Christ: A New Series

Worldview Bulletin is an evangelical Christian newsletter available on Substack and by email with over 6,000 subscribers produced by Chris…
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The State of Theology Survey: What Most American Evangelical Church Members Believe

What do most members of evangelical churches in America believe? As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the Ligonier/Lifeway…
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The State of Theology Survey and the Definition of Evangelicalism

"The trouble with this way of defining evangelical is that it creates both false positives and false negatives."   The…
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Christian Reflections on the Passing of Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall (1934-2025), famed for her decades-long study of chimpanzees and for her advocacy of animal rights and environmentalism, passed…
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A Data Scientist Analyzes the Book of Mormon. What Could Go Wrong?

“Like many people (not just Mormons), the Bald Coder assumes an oversimplistic, false dichotomy in which comprehensive scientific proof and…
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Did Paul Merely Try to Persecute Christians? A Response to Robyn Faith Walsh’s Second Argument

In a follow-up video to her earlier video arguing that Paul did not persecute Christians, which I discussed in my…
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Did Paul Persecute Christians? A Response to Robyn Faith Walsh

I can’t stand it. I just can’t stand it when scholars play fast and loose with the facts. On Bart…
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Is It Wrong to Say that Christ Is Fully God and Fully Man?

Posts are showing up on Facebook arguing that it is theologically incorrect to affirm that the incarnate Christ is “fully…
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“Temple of Solomon” and Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon: A Response to Robert Boylan (re-post)

Note: This post originally appeared on October 1, 2016, on IRR's Religious Researcher blog, which no longer exists (in that…
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Defending the Trinity Lecture Notes Now Online

This week I spoke at the Defend Conference at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. I had an unusually heavy schedule!…
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Genesis 1:1 and Creation Ex Nihilo (Out of Nothing) Revisited

Jews and Christians often quote Genesis 1:1 in support of the belief that God created the universe out of nothing…
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