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Here's 15 little tips to help keep us from camping out in one extreme or the other. Hope this helps!

I've gone off the deep end. I've taken a sharp turn left, theologically and politically. I've compromised. I've been brainwashed by all those smart academics and all their degrees. You name it -- I've done it. Have a listen to know what I mean.

Is Christmas pagan? Is Santa Claus really "Satan's Claws?" How do we sort through all the stuff we've heard and read about this? Well, in the interest of balance, I try to disabuse us of the notion that there is a demonic boogeyman hiding under the Christmas Tree. Have a listen. I hope it helps.

For more on this, check out “TOP TEN Christmas Traditions (& their Origin Stories)” by InspiringPhilosophy on Youtube.

Also, check out https://www.macon.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article222666770.html

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In this second of a brief two-parter on individualism, I try to bring a little balance to the notion of individualism with regards to church life and community and Christ himself. I also provide a warning against running to the opposite extreme of a hard and fast "Extra Ecclesium nulla salus" stance concerning church attendance as it applies to final salvation for wayward sheep. 

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This is part one of a two-parter on how individualism has negatively affected Christianity. In case you get the wrong idea -- this podcast episode is not about me discouraging you from reading your Bible. I'm simply trying to get folks to read it with the right lens, from the right perspective. 

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This is a short podcast to touch base and let you know that the Equipoise Podcast is preparing to return soon after an unexpected hiatus.

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So -- Halloween is about here. What's a balanced way to view this holiday? Is it pagan? If it was, is it okay to celebrate now? Should Christians categorize this with "works of darkness?" Well, to be fair, I don't go too much into how Christians should respond -- that's on you -- but rather take a look at the history of this holiday to decipher whether or not it always was a "pagan" holiday or if some of the ghoulishness and gore are relatively recent infusions into this holiday.

An admittedly more scholarly and unbiased article correcting the misinformation proffered in the article above: https://historyforatheists.com/2021/10/is-halloween-pagan/?unapproved=43672&moderation-hash=865f37ac85ef34cef7f178a91341dbaa#comment-43672

Hope this helps clear things up a little bit!

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An open letter to Almost Every Baptist College. It's not written to any college in particular, including my own Alma Mater. It's written to an institution known as AEBC; simple as that. :)

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We made it to the end of this miniseries! Hooray!

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After two weeks, I hereby release a really rough episode that doesn't flow very well but hopefully still makes some degree of sense.

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