Darrow Miller and Friends

Category: Evangelical Gnosticism

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Are Today’s Social Justice Warriors Manifesting the Nazi Spirit?

A recent post, “Gerhard Kittel Built a Theological Foundation for the Nazis,” generated an unusual thread of comments, initiated by one of our readers, Peter Millward. In that thread, my friend and colleague Scott Allen linked an article in WORLD magazine in which the interviewer asks German paleontologist Günter Bechly,

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Why Have Evangelicals Supported Donald Trump?

Donald Trump favored by Evangelicals Like so many in this US election cycle, I assumed that if a moral, principled constitutionalist were to run for president, evangelical Christians would flock to him or her. With 17 candidates in the Republican field—including two with Latin backgrounds, one brilliant black surgeon, one

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Divine Conception, Human Birth: What Pregnancy Teaches Us About God, part 2

The Christmas season–the celebration of Christ’s birth–gives us opportunity to think about human pregnancy and how it pictures something truly magnificent about God. For example, God gave birth to the nation of Israel. The Song of Moses is  the composition that marks the celebration of God’s deliverance of his people from the darkness

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Jesus the Benefactor

We don’t usually think of Jesus as a benefactor. Maybe we’ve missed something. The word “benefactor” evokes the picture of a wealthy person who is generous with his money. A benefactor freely shares with others from his own abundant means. Think Bill and Melinda Gates. Although the word “benefactor” doesn’t

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Samuel Rodriguez: Destroying the Sacred-Secular Divide

It’s tempting to divide Christians into the politically engaged and the evangelistically inclined. And, to be sure, that kind of segregation would accurately describe many followers of Christ. Samuel Rodriguez is an exception. As a pastor, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, and one of America’s “seven most influential Hispanic

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The 2012 Election: Political Solutions Won’t Heal the Culture

If a culture needs healing, more than politics will be required. A Nation Divided in Culture These fifty United States have become two nations sharing one geography. We inhabit the same land, but embrace divided cultures and moral visions. And a divided nation will not stand. In one of his

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