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Category Archives: Christianity
The Jesus Christ Show On KFI
Neil Saavedra runs the longest-running gimmick in Los Angeles religious radio, and the gimmick works because he never plays it for laughs. He hosts The Jesus Christ Show on KFI AM 640, the flagship, syndicated through Premiere Networks, billed as … Continue reading
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The First Century Jesus Movement As Extremist Threat
A Roman counter-extremism analyst reviewing the Jesus movement around 50-60 AD might flag nearly every indicator on a contemporary threat assessment. Start with the leader profile. Charismatic preacher, Galilean rural background, drew large crowds, made apocalyptic claims about a coming … Continue reading
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Aaron M. Renn – The Consultant and the Cathedral
Aaron M. Renn approached American Christianity as a consultant who had spent fifteen years diagnosing institutions under constraint. That formation explains his tone, appeal, limits and influence. He was born in October 1969 in Laconia, Indiana, a town of roughly … Continue reading
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Omar Sultan Haque – Physician, Psychiatrist, Philosopher
Omar Sultan Haque holds an Sc.B. in neuroscience and A.B. in religious studies from Brown University, an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, an S.T.M. from Yale, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed his Ph.D. in cognition and … Continue reading
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The Coalition That Survived the Cross: Narrative Construction and Institutional Selection in the Making of the New Testament
The New Testament is a cultural trauma construction and sociologist Jeffrey Alexander’s framework illuminates the incentives shaping such narratives. The founding situation determines everything that follows. The followers of Jesus after the crucifixion faced a specific and urgent problem that … Continue reading
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The Custodial Imagination
America has enjoyed real gains and suffered real losses as the result of opening up its English departments to non-WASPs. The gains are easy to talk about, the losses not so much. Who has had the courage to note the … Continue reading
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The Examined Soul: Christian Philosophical Custodianship and Its Aftermath in American Universities
We need a book documenting America’s gains and losses when Christians surrendered custodianship of Philosophy departments. Chapter One: Christian Philosophy as a Custodial Formation. This chapter establishes the book’s central analytical framework by specifying what distinguished Christian philosophical custodianship from … Continue reading
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The Custodianship Question
Part Two The Custodianship Question In Canada, Latin America, Africa Australia, New Zealand Europe Asia Alliance Theory Selig Perlman (1888-1959), a professor of Economics at Wisconsin, reportedly warned his Jewish graduate students, that “History belongs to the Anglo-Saxons. You belong … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For American Leaders In Christian Nationalism
Christian nationalists believe that the United States was founded as a Christian nation whose constitutional order was designed to be grounded in Christian principles rather than that the founders were a diverse group whose religious commitments ranged from orthodox Christianity … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Christian Intellectual Authority
Elite Christian intellectuals do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking theological, cultural, and civilizational languages that frame their claims as fidelity to orthodox witness, loyalty to the Great Tradition, or responsibility for sustaining … Continue reading
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