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Roger E. Olson
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Roger E. Olson is professor of theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University in Waco, Texas.  His Ph.D. in Religious Studies is from Rice University and he graduated from North American Baptist Seminary.  He is the author of thirteen books on theology, is contributing editor of Christianity Today magazine and served as general editor of Christian Scholar's Review.  He has also been president of the American Theological Society and co-chair of the Evangelical Theology Group of the American Academy of Religion.  His special areas of interest lie in historical theology and American religious denominations and sects.

Works by Roger E. Olson
A New Discussion Topic: American Evangelicalism
Roger E. Olson | August 10, 2024
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Does Calvinism Deny God’s Goodness?
Roger E. Olson | August 08, 2024
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A Statement of Faith (Doctrines)
Roger E. Olson | August 05, 2024
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Is There a Doctrine in the House?
Roger E. Olson | August 03, 2024
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Pay Attention to All that Trump Has Said and Done
Roger E. Olson | July 31, 2024
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If This Doesn’t Do It…Nothing Will
Roger E. Olson | July 30, 2024
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Us For Them: Chapter 9: Twenty-Six Names
Roger E. Olson | July 28, 2024
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“Christianish”
Roger E. Olson | July 27, 2024
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Bad Faith?
Roger E. Olson | July 24, 2024
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Us For Them: Chapter 8: Wendell Berry…
Roger E. Olson | July 22, 2024
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Trump and Putin and NATO and Ukraine
Roger E. Olson | July 19, 2024
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Overcoming Stereotypes and Caricatures
Roger E. Olson | July 17, 2024
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Can “The Universe” Have Intentions?
Roger E. Olson | July 11, 2024
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Us For Them: Chapter 6: Righteousness Porn
Roger E. Olson | July 08, 2024
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Should Christians Celebrate War?
Roger E. Olson | July 06, 2024
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A Dark Day in America
Roger E. Olson | July 03, 2024
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Us For Them: Chapter 5: Clashing Victimocracies
Roger E. Olson | July 01, 2024
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Honestly Asking Gay-Friendly Churches
Roger E. Olson | June 30, 2024
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The Ten Commandments and Public Schools
Roger E. Olson | June 27, 2024
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Does God Know Everything?
Roger E. Olson | June 25, 2024
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Us for Them: Chapter 4: The Day of Small Things
Roger E. Olson | June 23, 2024
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What If There Is Extra-terrestrial Intelligence?
Roger E. Olson | June 21, 2024
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The End of the Timeless God?
Roger E. Olson | June 19, 2024
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What Were They Thinking?
Roger E. Olson | June 14, 2024
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What Does “Far Right” Mean?
Roger E. Olson | June 12, 2024
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Us for Them: Chapter Two: Cats Must Also Fail
Roger E. Olson | June 10, 2024
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The Enneagram: A Christian Tool?
Roger E. Olson | June 08, 2024
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Us for Them: Book Discussion: Chapter 1
Roger E. Olson | June 03, 2024
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I Ask Again: What Would It Take?
Roger E. Olson | June 01, 2024
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New Book Discussion Begins Monday, June 3
Roger E. Olson | May 31, 2024
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Why We Believe the Bible Is God’s Word Written
Roger E. Olson | May 28, 2024
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Again: Ohlendorf and the OT Texts of Terror
Roger E. Olson | May 26, 2024
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Nazi Otto Ohlendorf and the Old Testament
Roger E. Olson | May 24, 2024
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Can Anything Be Religion?
Roger E. Olson | May 22, 2024
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What Is the “Decisive Factor” in Salvation?
Roger E. Olson | May 15, 2024
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An Evangelical Side Show? Controversy Again
Roger E. Olson | May 12, 2024
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The John Birch Society and the Republican Party
Roger E. Olson | May 10, 2024
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Is American Christian Nationalism A Threat?
Roger E. Olson | May 04, 2024
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Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel
Roger E. Olson | May 02, 2024
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Evangelical Pastor Goes Ballistic on Trump
Roger E. Olson | April 30, 2024
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My Experiences with Liberal Churches
Roger E. Olson | April 26, 2024
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Feeling Nostalgia for Fundamentalism
Roger E. Olson | April 24, 2024
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Why Calvinism Cannot Be True and Is It Heresy?
Roger E. Olson | April 19, 2024
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How Many Gods Do Christians Believe In?
Roger E. Olson | April 16, 2024
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What Is (Christian) Folk Religion?
Roger E. Olson | April 12, 2024
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What Does “The Blood of Jesus” Mean?
Roger E. Olson | April 10, 2024
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The Meaning of Christianity: Liberty and Tolerance
Roger E. Olson | April 07, 2024
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What Is a “Resurrection Body?”
Roger E. Olson | April 06, 2024
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Should Homosexuality Be Criminal? About Uganda
Roger E. Olson | April 04, 2024
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Is “Evil” Science Fiction?
Roger E. Olson | April 02, 2024
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Empirical Christianity versus Real Christianity
Roger E. Olson | March 26, 2024
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The Political Meaning of Christianity: Chapter Two
Roger E. Olson | March 24, 2024
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O, That Again: Another Book about Evangelicalism
Roger E. Olson | March 23, 2024
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What Good Education Does
Roger E. Olson | March 21, 2024
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When Did Character Stop Mattering?
Roger E. Olson | March 19, 2024
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Tinder: The Prophet Stance
Roger E. Olson | March 17, 2024
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Belief in Satan without God?
Roger E. Olson | March 14, 2024
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Christian Zionism Gone Crazy
Roger E. Olson | March 12, 2024
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Generational Curses?
Roger E. Olson | March 07, 2024
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Is an Embryo a Baby?
Roger E. Olson | March 06, 2024
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What I Mean By “White Privilege”
Roger E. Olson | March 02, 2024
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What Does “Supernatural” Mean?
Roger E. Olson | March 01, 2024
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Avoid Bullies; Speak Out about Them
Roger E. Olson | February 28, 2024
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Are You Brainwashed?
Roger E. Olson | February 26, 2024
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The Political Meaning of Christianity: Chapter One (1)
Roger E. Olson | February 25, 2024
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Christian Nationalism as Folk Religion
Roger E. Olson | February 23, 2024
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Questions for Theology Nerds
Roger E. Olson | February 20, 2024
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My Story of Being “Cancelled”
Roger E. Olson | February 19, 2024
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A Third Testament? Malcolm Muggeridge on Youtube
Roger E. Olson | February 17, 2024
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The Political Meaning of Christianity: Preface/Prologue
Roger E. Olson | February 15, 2024
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What Does “Evangelical” Really Mean?
Roger E. Olson | February 13, 2024
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But Is It Worth It? A Question to Christian Trumpists
Roger E. Olson | February 10, 2024
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Are American Evangelicals Gullible?
Roger E. Olson | February 07, 2024
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The Political Meaning of Christianity
Roger E. Olson | February 06, 2024
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Essentials of Christian Thought: Appendix
Roger E. Olson | February 04, 2024
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Essentials of Christian Thought, Chapter Two
Roger E. Olson | December 31, 2023
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A New Year’s Eve Memory: Watchnight Service
Roger E. Olson | December 29, 2023
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Notes on a Christian Christmas Eve Service
Roger E. Olson | December 25, 2023
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Christian Nationalism Old and New
Roger E. Olson | December 20, 2023
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Essentials of Christian Thought Book Discussion Begins
Roger E. Olson | December 17, 2023
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Between Jesus and John Wayne
Roger E. Olson | December 15, 2023
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Karl Barth in a YouTube Documentary Not about Him
Roger E. Olson | December 10, 2023
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Is Donald Trump “Orange Jesus?”
Roger E. Olson | December 06, 2023
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Announcing a New Book Discussion
Roger E. Olson | December 04, 2023
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Are American Christians Persecuted?
Roger E. Olson | December 02, 2023
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An Even Stranger Thing…
Roger E. Olson | December 01, 2023
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How Do You Know You’re Not Brainwashed?
Roger E. Olson | November 29, 2023
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Does God Save Everyone He Can?
Roger E. Olson | November 23, 2023
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The Upside-Down Kingdom: Chapter 11: Low Is High
Roger E. Olson | November 20, 2023
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Should Christians Practice Yoga?
Roger E. Olson | November 18, 2023
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Evangelical Thoughts about Pope Francis
Roger E. Olson | November 15, 2023
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The Upside-Down Kingdom Chapter 10: Inside Outsiders
Roger E. Olson | November 13, 2023
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Desensitizing Young Males to Female Nudity
Roger E. Olson | November 08, 2023
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Is the New Testament Message Unique?
Roger E. Olson | November 01, 2023
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The Upside-Down Kingdom, Chapter 8: Impious Piety
Roger E. Olson | October 30, 2023
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Proposal for a Green Letter Bible
Roger E. Olson | October 28, 2023
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A Dark and Disturbing Time for America
Roger E. Olson | October 26, 2023
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The Upside-Down Kingdom, Chapter 6: Luxurious Poverty
Roger E. Olson | October 15, 2023
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Christian Zionism Explained
Roger E. Olson | October 13, 2023
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Will Disability Endure In Heaven?
Roger E. Olson | October 11, 2023
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The Upside-Down Kingdom, Chapter 4: Free Slaves
Roger E. Olson | October 08, 2023
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America’s Dysfunctional Government
Roger E. Olson | October 04, 2023
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Everyone Sins…But There’s a Difference
Roger E. Olson | September 28, 2023
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"The Upside-Down Kingdom," Chapter 3: "Temple Piety"
Roger E. Olson | September 25, 2023
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Is It the Same "Christianity" I Grew Up With?
Roger E. Olson | September 22, 2023
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The Almost Forgotten Story of Non-Liberal Feminist...
Roger E. Olson | September 20, 2023
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The Upside Down Kingdom: Chapter Two: Mountain Politics
Roger E. Olson | September 18, 2023
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Belong, Believe, Behave?
Roger E. Olson | September 15, 2023
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Unsafe Sects: Understanding Religious Cults
Roger E. Olson | September 13, 2023
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The Upside-Down Kingdom: Chapter One: Down Is Up
Roger E. Olson | September 11, 2023
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Our Next Book Discussion: The Upside Down Kingdom
Roger E. Olson | September 09, 2023
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Hegel in a Nutshell
Roger E. Olson | September 06, 2023
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Is Orthodoxy a Necessary Feature of “Evangelical?”
Roger E. Olson | September 01, 2023
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Finally Finishing “Why?” Chapters 22 & 23
Roger E. Olson | August 30, 2023
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To My International Readers: What Is Happening Here?
Roger E. Olson | August 25, 2023
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Announcing My New Book: Unsafe Sects
Roger E. Olson | August 23, 2023
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A Christian Metaphysic?
Roger E. Olson | August 20, 2023
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Heaven Is for Real?
Roger E. Olson | August 17, 2023
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God and Time
Roger E. Olson | August 13, 2023
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C. S. Lewis: Saint or Sinner?
Roger E. Olson | August 10, 2023
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The Church as Christ?
Roger E. Olson | August 07, 2023
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Christian Higher Education a Two Edged Sword
Roger E. Olson | August 03, 2023
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Cults Again!
Roger E. Olson | July 30, 2023
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What I Think About the War in Ukraine
Roger E. Olson | July 28, 2023
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“Why?” Chapters 21-23 The Book Finished
Roger E. Olson | July 24, 2023
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I Am a Proud Christian Nationalist (Guest Post)
Roger E. Olson | July 22, 2023
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“Why?” Chapter 20: “The Spirit Has Time”
Roger E. Olson | July 16, 2023
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The Way We Were: Part 2
Roger E. Olson | July 13, 2023
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The Way We Were
Roger E. Olson | July 08, 2023
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Patriotism vs. Nationalism
Roger E. Olson | July 04, 2023
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Where Does the Slippery Slope End?
Roger E. Olson | June 21, 2023
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“Why?” Part III, Chapter 15: “Gnosis”
Roger E. Olson | June 16, 2023
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“Why?” Chapter III, Part 14
Roger E. Olson | June 14, 2023
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June Is Men’s Health Month: New Information
Roger E. Olson | June 13, 2023
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“God” in Popular Culture
Roger E. Olson | June 10, 2023
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A Theologian’s Journey
Roger E. Olson | June 06, 2023
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Can the Trinity Be Explained?
Roger E. Olson | May 29, 2023
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Is Any Religion True?
Roger E. Olson | May 20, 2023
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Can a Christian Be “Defender of the Faiths?”
Roger E. Olson | May 09, 2023
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About Reading More of “Why?” Setting a Date
Roger E. Olson | May 06, 2023
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“Why? On Suffering, Guilt and God” Part 1
Roger E. Olson | May 04, 2023
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Comments and Cautions Regarding “Why?”
Roger E. Olson | May 01, 2023
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Is America Becoming a Failed State?
Roger E. Olson | April 29, 2023
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“Faith Healing” : What Is It?
Roger E. Olson | April 27, 2023
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Churches and Denominations; Why Hide?
Roger E. Olson | April 22, 2023
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About “Why?” By A. van de Beek
Roger E. Olson | April 16, 2023
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“Reformed” and “Calvinist” Are Not Synonyms
Roger E. Olson | April 14, 2023
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How Dynamic Is God?
Roger E. Olson | April 11, 2023
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Is “Power” Something A Christian Should Want?
Roger E. Olson | April 07, 2023
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Angry Theologians
Roger E. Olson | April 03, 2023
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What Is “Theology?”
Roger E. Olson | March 30, 2023
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Thank God for Womanist Theology, But…
Roger E. Olson | March 25, 2023
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Whatever Happened to Common Sense?
Roger E. Olson | March 23, 2023
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Fundamentalism vs. Evangelicalism
Roger E. Olson | March 09, 2023
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Ask Professor Olson about Theology
Roger E. Olson | March 03, 2023
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Is the Mind More than the Brain (Again): NDEs and...
Roger E. Olson | February 26, 2023
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Did God Command Israel to “Show Them No Mercy?”
Roger E. Olson | February 23, 2023
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Facts vs. Faith?
Roger E. Olson | February 21, 2023
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The Most Basic Problem in America Today
Roger E. Olson | February 18, 2023
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Truth and Trump
Roger E. Olson | February 16, 2023
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About “Dogmas” And Closed-Mindedness
Roger E. Olson | February 14, 2023
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How Essential is Doctrine to Christianity?
Roger E. Olson | February 07, 2023
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A Radical Suggestion for Christian Educational...
Roger E. Olson | February 06, 2023
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Sing a New Song?
Roger E. Olson | February 02, 2023
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What Is Gravity? A Theologian Learns about Physics
Roger E. Olson | January 30, 2023
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Maverick Scientists and a Spiritual Worldview
Roger E. Olson | January 27, 2023
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Is Materialism a “Dogma” of Science? (Yes)
Roger E. Olson | January 21, 2023
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Trump against “Evangelical Leaders”
Roger E. Olson | January 18, 2023
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What Is “Fundamentalism?”
Roger E. Olson | January 16, 2023
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What Does Prayer Do?
Roger E. Olson | January 13, 2023
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More about “Wordless Prayer”
Roger E. Olson | January 12, 2023
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There Is No Such Thing as “Wordless Prayer”
Roger E. Olson | January 09, 2023
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Evangelicals and the Trinity
Roger E. Olson | January 02, 2023
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About Churches: They Are All Human
Roger E. Olson | December 30, 2022
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Fundamentalish: A New Term for An Old Phenomenon
Roger E. Olson | December 26, 2022
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Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?
Roger E. Olson | December 23, 2022
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Thoughts about “Cancel Culture”
Roger E. Olson | December 21, 2022
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Two Kinds of Christian Fundamentalism
Roger E. Olson | December 17, 2022
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How to Read the Apostle Paul in the New Testament
Roger E. Olson | December 15, 2022
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Against Cessationism
Roger E. Olson | December 12, 2022
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Paul Tillich and “Theonomous Culture”
Roger E. Olson | December 08, 2022
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Christians Against Christian Nationalism
Roger E. Olson | December 06, 2022
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God without the “Omnis?” Advent and Kenosis
Roger E. Olson | December 02, 2022
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A Forgotten Chapter and Theory in Creation Theology
Roger E. Olson | November 30, 2022
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Would Jesus Be an "American Nationalist?"
Roger E. Olson | November 27, 2022
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Of Red Herrings and Other Fallacies
Roger E. Olson | November 24, 2022
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The Two Most Influential Modern Economic Philosophers
Roger E. Olson | November 19, 2022
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“Under the Banner of Heaven” and Mormonism/LDS
Roger E. Olson | November 13, 2022
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Thoughts about Marvin Olasky and “Compassionate...
Roger E. Olson | November 11, 2022
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About This Blog (Read This If You Ever Plan to Comment)
Roger E. Olson | November 08, 2022
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Remembering Progressive Evangelicals: The Clapham Sect
Roger E. Olson | November 07, 2022
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The American Myth That “It Can’t Happen Here”
Roger E. Olson | November 03, 2022
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Is the Concept of “Worldly” Still Useful?
Roger E. Olson | October 30, 2022
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Should Christians Celebrate Halloween?
Roger E. Olson | October 27, 2022
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Is “Syncretism” Still a Valuable Concept?
Roger E. Olson | October 24, 2022
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The False Religion of Americanism
Roger E. Olson | October 21, 2022
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Controversial Thoughts about Banned Books Week
Roger E. Olson | October 18, 2022
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About the “Religious Left”
Roger E. Olson | October 15, 2022
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Does Truth Actually Exist?
Roger E. Olson | October 12, 2022
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Is American Christianity Becoming a Folk Religion?
Roger E. Olson | October 08, 2022
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The Crisis of Men and Boys
Roger E. Olson | October 05, 2022
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Is “The Unitarian Church” Christian?
Roger E. Olson | October 02, 2022
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Relational Theology Yes; Panentheism No
Roger E. Olson | September 26, 2022
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The First Real Pentecostal Systematic Theology?
Roger E. Olson | September 22, 2022
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Is Jesus’s Maleness a Problem for Women?
Roger E. Olson | September 20, 2022
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Gnostic Hart? Final Reflections on “You Are Gods: On...
Roger E. Olson | September 16, 2022
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Who Is a “Heretic?”
Roger E. Olson | September 14, 2022
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Is There a Checklist for Determining “Christian...
Roger E. Olson | September 09, 2022
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Is It Time to Retire the Word “Superstition?”
Roger E. Olson | September 01, 2022
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Thank You for Your Patience as I Pause …
Roger E. Olson | August 31, 2022
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Why “Orthodox” Rather than “Conservative?”
Roger E. Olson | August 29, 2022
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Why I Prefer “Orthodox” to “Conservative”
Roger E. Olson | August 26, 2022
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Thoughts about Hart's "You Are Gods"
Roger E. Olson | August 20, 2022
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Why I Will Never Become Eastern Orthodox
Roger E. Olson | August 18, 2022
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How Many Basic Christianities Are There?
Roger E. Olson | August 17, 2022
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How to Read a Challenging Book
Roger E. Olson | August 15, 2022
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An Outsider’s View of Eastern Orthodoxy
Roger E. Olson | August 14, 2022
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Are We Gods?
Roger E. Olson | August 12, 2022
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Bad Religion (Not the Punk Rock Band)
Roger E. Olson | August 10, 2022
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Superstition Is Back and Its Going Mainstream!
Roger E. Olson | August 08, 2022
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A New Book about Calvinism
Roger E. Olson | August 06, 2022
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Is Dispensationalism Orthodox?
Roger E. Olson | August 03, 2022
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Without a Doubt?
Roger E. Olson | August 01, 2022
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What Is Truth? An Answer Explored
Roger E. Olson | July 29, 2022
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There Is No Such Thing as “Just Fiction”
Roger E. Olson | July 28, 2022
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Is The Bible a Horror Story?
Roger E. Olson | July 24, 2022
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Putting the Bible in Its Place
Roger E. Olson | July 23, 2022
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How Did the Christian Bible Come To Be?
Roger E. Olson | July 21, 2022
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Where Is Protestantism?
Roger E. Olson | July 18, 2022
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What the COVID Pandemic Means for Churches
Roger E. Olson | July 16, 2022
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An Excellent, Literary, Christian Novel
Roger E. Olson | July 14, 2022
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Are Pentecostals Fundamentalists? Part Two
Roger E. Olson | July 12, 2022
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Are Pentecostals Fundamentalists? Part One
Roger E. Olson | July 09, 2022
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Is America Worth Celebrating?
Roger E. Olson | July 04, 2022
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Why I Do Not Believe in the “Rapture”
Roger E. Olson | July 01, 2022
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Does Christianity Require a “Leap of Faith?”
Roger E. Olson | June 28, 2022
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Why Not “Against Fundamentalism?”
Roger E. Olson | June 22, 2022
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Are Bad Christians Jesus’s Fault?
Roger E. Olson | June 20, 2022
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Toxic Masculinity or Aspirational Masculinity?
Roger E. Olson | June 17, 2022
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Calvinism the Root of Liberal Theology
Roger E. Olson | June 15, 2022
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Objectifying Women and the "Billy Graham Rule"
Roger E. Olson | June 12, 2022
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Why I Wrote “Against Liberal Theology”
Roger E. Olson | June 08, 2022
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Against Liberal Theology Now Available!
Roger E. Olson | June 07, 2022
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It’s Friday But Pentecost Sunday Is Coming!
Roger E. Olson | June 03, 2022
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Of False Pedestals and True Clay Feet
Roger E. Olson | May 31, 2022
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I Have Given Up…on The Book of Revelation
Roger E. Olson | May 28, 2022
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If I Were a Calvinist or an Atheist
Roger E. Olson | May 25, 2022
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What Is “Progressive Christianity?”
Roger E. Olson | May 23, 2022
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Jesus and the 20 Percent
Roger E. Olson | May 20, 2022
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Jesus and Ronald Reagan
Roger E. Olson | May 18, 2022
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Jesus and Roy Rogers
Roger E. Olson | May 15, 2022
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A Strange Thought Experiment in Ethics
Roger E. Olson | May 13, 2022
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Remembering “My” Evangelicalism
Roger E. Olson | May 10, 2022
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What to Do…Subterranean Theology Part 2
Roger E. Olson | May 05, 2022
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A Better Documentary about American Evangelicals
Roger E. Olson | April 30, 2022
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Are “Fanatics” Increasingly Shaping America?
Roger E. Olson | April 28, 2022
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About Men and Church
Roger E. Olson | April 22, 2022
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Against Fundamentalism?
Roger E. Olson | April 20, 2022
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If I Did Not Believe in the Bodily Resurrection…
Roger E. Olson | April 17, 2022
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What’s Good about “Good Friday?”
Roger E. Olson | April 15, 2022
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The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind—Again
Roger E. Olson | April 11, 2022
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The Salvation of Infants
Roger E. Olson | April 08, 2022
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What Nonconformity Does NOT Mean
Roger E. Olson | April 02, 2022
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Rediscovering Christian Nonconformity
Roger E. Olson | March 29, 2022
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What’s Wrong with Men?
Roger E. Olson | March 25, 2022
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Memory Can Be a Burden: Remembering Past Invasions
Roger E. Olson | March 23, 2022
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Evangelical Christianity and Atonement Again
Roger E. Olson | March 20, 2022
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Evangelical Christianity and Atonement
Roger E. Olson | March 19, 2022
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What Is Justice?
Roger E. Olson | March 15, 2022
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Can God Be Acted Upon?
Roger E. Olson | March 09, 2022
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William Lane Craig and God
Roger E. Olson | March 07, 2022
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The Ever-Widening Divide among American Protestants
Roger E. Olson | March 02, 2022
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Eurasianism and Americanism
Roger E. Olson | February 28, 2022
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About Russia’s AND America’s Invasions
Roger E. Olson | February 25, 2022
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On Becoming Anabaptist
Roger E. Olson | February 21, 2022
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You Don’t Deserve…And There Are Always Limits
Roger E. Olson | February 17, 2022
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Christianity and the Occult
Roger E. Olson | February 14, 2022
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The Now Old “Young Evangelicals”
Roger E. Olson | February 11, 2022
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Are Reformed Christians Evangelicals?
Roger E. Olson | February 08, 2022
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Why I Am a Socialist: Because I Am a Christian
Roger E. Olson | February 02, 2022
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The Best Newish Book about The Atonement
Roger E. Olson | January 29, 2022
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On Not Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater
Roger E. Olson | January 24, 2022
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Should Polygamy Be De-criminalized?
Roger E. Olson | January 21, 2022
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What Is “Christianity?”
Roger E. Olson | January 20, 2022
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Why Traditional Religion Is Dwindling in America
Roger E. Olson | January 18, 2022
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Does the Doctrine of the Trinity Matter?
Roger E. Olson | January 14, 2022
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A Model Statement of Faith
Roger E. Olson | January 11, 2022
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Why Doctrine Matters
Roger E. Olson | January 10, 2022
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Faith Not Fatalism (Guest Post)
Roger E. Olson | January 07, 2022
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But Does Systematic Theology Matter?
Roger E. Olson | January 06, 2022
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Why Theology Matters
Roger E. Olson | January 04, 2022
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The "Joker/Jester" Asks Christian Fund Raisers...
Roger E. Olson | December 30, 2021
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The Sorry Condition of Christian Ethics
Roger E. Olson | December 26, 2021
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The Joker/Jester Asks "Why 'Chosen'?"
Roger E. Olson | December 20, 2021
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A Movie about Calvinism?
Roger E. Olson | December 13, 2021
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The "Joker" Strikes Again: Why Do Churches...?
Roger E. Olson | December 10, 2021
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The "Joker" Begins: Why Do Almost All Pastors Urge...
Roger E. Olson | December 06, 2021
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Every Church Needs a Joker (And the Joker Cometh)
Roger E. Olson | December 03, 2021
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Let's Talk about Original Sin--Theologically
Roger E. Olson | November 26, 2021
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Let's Talk about Near-Death Experiences--Theologically
Roger E. Olson | November 23, 2021
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What Is "Progressive Christianity?"
Roger E. Olson | November 10, 2021
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Sometimes Life Gets in the Way--Even of Theology!
Roger E. Olson | November 08, 2021
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Answering a Question: Can There Be a Church without...
Roger E. Olson | November 02, 2021
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Answering a Question about the Trinity: Is "Social...
Roger E. Olson | October 20, 2021
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Answer to a Question: Philosophy and Theology
Roger E. Olson | October 16, 2021
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Let’s Talk Theology: Questions Invited
Roger E. Olson | October 15, 2021
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Let's Talk about Spiritual Technologies--Theologically
Roger E. Olson | October 09, 2021
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What Is the Essence of Christianity? Part 2
Roger E. Olson | October 05, 2021
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What Is the Essence of Christianity? Part 1
Roger E. Olson | October 02, 2021
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Let's Talk about Evil--Theologically
Roger E. Olson | September 28, 2021
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Let's Talk about Complementarianism--Theologically
Roger E. Olson | September 23, 2021
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Let's Talk about the Occult--Theologically
Roger E. Olson | September 21, 2021
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Let's Talk about Cults--Theologically
Roger E. Olson | September 13, 2021
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Let's Talk about Compatibilism--Theologically
Roger E. Olson | September 09, 2021
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Let's Talk about Critical Race Theory--Theologically
Roger E. Olson | September 05, 2021
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Let's Talk about Correctness (Political)--Theologically
Roger E. Olson | September 02, 2021
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Let's Talk about Circumcision--Theologically
Roger E. Olson | September 01, 2021
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Let's Talk about Cremation--Theologically
Roger E. Olson | August 29, 2021
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Is There Such a Thing as a "Sin of Empathy?"
Roger E. Olson | August 25, 2021
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Let's Talk about COVID-19 Theologically
Roger E. Olson | August 22, 2021
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Experiences of an Evangelical Theologian 9 (Final)
Roger E. Olson | August 20, 2021
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Experiences of an Evangelical Theologian 8
Roger E. Olson | August 12, 2021
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Experiences of an Evangelical Theologian 7
Roger E. Olson | August 06, 2021
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Experiences of an Evangelical Theologian 6
Roger E. Olson | July 31, 2021
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Experiences of an Evangelical Theologian 5
Roger E. Olson | July 23, 2021
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Experiences of an Evangelical Theologian 4
Roger E. Olson | July 20, 2021
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Experiences of an Evangelical Theologian 3
Roger E. Olson | July 16, 2021
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Experiences of an Evangelical Theology 2
Roger E. Olson | July 13, 2021
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Experiences of an Evangelical Theologian 1
Roger E. Olson | July 09, 2021
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There Is No Such Thing as "The Church"
Roger E. Olson | July 05, 2021
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Can God Change the Past?
Roger E. Olson | June 08, 2021
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Must a Christian Forgive Unconditionally?
Roger E. Olson | June 05, 2021
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Christian Denominations and Gay Marriage
Roger E. Olson | May 29, 2021
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Is There Such a Thing as “Public Theology?”
Roger E. Olson | May 22, 2021
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A Quick Note to my Blog Followers...
Roger E. Olson | May 19, 2021
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Kenotic Christology Explained and Defended
Roger E. Olson | May 12, 2021
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A Model for Church Discipline
Roger E. Olson | May 03, 2021
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Remembering "Satanic Panic" in America (1980s)
Roger E. Olson | April 21, 2021
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Authoritative vs. Nurturant Styles of Religion
Roger E. Olson | April 17, 2021
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R.I.P. Hans Kueng (1928-2021)
Roger E. Olson | April 09, 2021
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How This Blog Came to Exist and Why I Keep It Going
Roger E. Olson | April 05, 2021
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How This Blog Came to Exist and Why I Keep It Going
Roger E. Olson | April 05, 2021
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A Proposed Response to the Flood of Immigrants
Roger E. Olson | March 31, 2021
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A Question
Roger E. Olson | March 27, 2021
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Thoughts about Atonement
Roger E. Olson | March 24, 2021
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When Is Division among Christians Justified?
Roger E. Olson | March 19, 2021
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Is Texas a Failed State?
Roger E. Olson | March 08, 2021
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A Parable/Greek Tragedy
Roger E. Olson | March 02, 2021
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American Evangelical Christianity: A Failed Movement?
Roger E. Olson | February 27, 2021
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Hitler's "Trial" and His Successful Denials
Roger E. Olson | February 17, 2021
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Church Shopping
Roger E. Olson | February 09, 2021
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Does God Have His Own Logic?
Roger E. Olson | February 04, 2021
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Did Jonathan Edwards Undermine Calvinism?
Roger E. Olson | January 31, 2021
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On Not Making a Religion of Politics
Roger E. Olson | January 27, 2021
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My Deep Disappointment with Franklin Graham
Roger E. Olson | January 25, 2021
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What Is "The Church?"
Roger E. Olson | January 20, 2021
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Is "Liberal Christianity" Authentic Christianity?
Roger E. Olson | January 16, 2021
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Free Will or Not? Another Round in the Debate
Roger E. Olson | January 04, 2021
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The Dark Side of Feminism
Roger E. Olson | December 30, 2020
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About "Socialism" and Christianity
Roger E. Olson | December 26, 2020
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Critical Race Theory Examined and Analyzed
Roger E. Olson | December 21, 2020
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Thank God for Science and Scientists, but...
Roger E. Olson | December 15, 2020
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Waiting for Inspiration to Hit: Stay Tuned!
Roger E. Olson | December 13, 2020
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Can Anyone Know Reality Itself? More about Truth
Roger E. Olson | December 10, 2020
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What Is Truth?
Roger E. Olson | December 07, 2020
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A Theology for the Twenty-first Century
Roger E. Olson | December 03, 2020
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Why John Piper Does Not Want Me to Be a Calvinist
Roger E. Olson | November 29, 2020
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The Great Reset Is Coming!
Roger E. Olson | November 26, 2020
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People Disagree. So What?
Roger E. Olson | November 24, 2020
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Essentials of Christian Thought
Roger E. Olson | November 19, 2020
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Who Died on the Cross?
Roger E. Olson | November 17, 2020
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Can God Change without Changing?
Roger E. Olson | November 13, 2020
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Distinguishing between a Movement and Its Ethos
Roger E. Olson | November 11, 2020
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What Is a "Miracle?"
Roger E. Olson | November 06, 2020
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Are "Patriot Churches" Real Churches?
Roger E. Olson | October 31, 2020
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Does Theology Even Matter Anymore?
Roger E. Olson | October 27, 2020
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Why I Do Not Think of God as "Infinite"
Roger E. Olson | October 22, 2020
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What Should "Church" Be Like? Answering the Question
Roger E. Olson | October 10, 2020
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Something Seriously Wrong with Much of American...
Roger E. Olson | October 06, 2020
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A Test of the Authenticity of Your Christianity
Roger E. Olson | September 24, 2020
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Review of "That All Shall Be Saved" by David Bentley Hart
Roger E. Olson | September 17, 2020
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Can One Be an Evangelical and Roman Catholic?
Roger E. Olson | September 14, 2020
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What the One Percent Don't Want You to Know
Roger E. Olson | September 09, 2020
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An Excellent Critique of Molinism as Incompatible with...
Roger E. Olson | September 04, 2020
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Coming Here Soon: Critiques of Molinism
Roger E. Olson | September 03, 2020
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Abusing Scripture for Personal or Political Purposes
Roger E. Olson | August 30, 2020
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How This Blog Began: An Outrage in 2011
Roger E. Olson | August 23, 2020
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The Worst Idea Ever: The "Catastrophe of..."
Roger E. Olson | August 17, 2020
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Can You Be a Baptist and a Hindu (or a Buddhist)?
Roger E. Olson | August 13, 2020
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Why an Income Tax is the Only Fair Tax
Roger E. Olson | July 30, 2020
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A Really Good REFORMED Systematic Theology
Roger E. Olson | July 25, 2020
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Jesus versus Paul: A Sign of Liberal Theology?
Roger E. Olson | July 09, 2020
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Evangelicals and Trump
Roger E. Olson | July 06, 2020
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Non-Violent Revolution Is Possible
Roger E. Olson | July 01, 2020
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Words of Caution and Advice for the Protesters
Roger E. Olson | June 30, 2020
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Is Racism Ignorance or Disease?
Roger E. Olson | June 26, 2020
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Whatever Happened to Shame?
Roger E. Olson | June 22, 2020
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History Repeating Itself?
Roger E. Olson | June 18, 2020
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The Problem with "All Lives Matter"
Roger E. Olson | June 14, 2020
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How American (White) Evangelicalism Has Changed
Roger E. Olson | June 10, 2020
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What Is the Purpose of Preaching?
Roger E. Olson | June 06, 2020
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Why Study/Learn Historical Theology
Roger E. Olson | May 26, 2020
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Why Lying Has Become Normal and Acceptable
Roger E. Olson | May 23, 2020
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Confusion Reigns about COVID 19 Fatality Rates
Roger E. Olson | May 17, 2020
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My One Concern (Here) about the Pandemic
Roger E. Olson | May 15, 2020
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The Problem with Calvinism is Fundamentalism
Roger E. Olson | May 09, 2020
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Does God Ever Make Us "Worthy?"
Roger E. Olson | May 05, 2020
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Toxic Religion
Roger E. Olson | May 03, 2020
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What Is "Prayer?"
Roger E. Olson | April 28, 2020
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"Unchurching"
Roger E. Olson | April 24, 2020
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What Makes a Group of People "Church?" Part 2
Roger E. Olson | April 20, 2020
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What Makes a Group of People "Church?" Part 1
Roger E. Olson | April 17, 2020
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Christianity and Economics
Roger E. Olson | April 12, 2020
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Calvinism Is Impossible
Roger E. Olson | April 09, 2020
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Where Is God in This Pandemic?
Roger E. Olson | April 04, 2020
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Why Should the Human Species Survive?
Roger E. Olson | March 26, 2020
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Why I Am Disobeying the Bible
Roger E. Olson | March 21, 2020
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Can God Change?
Roger E. Olson | March 18, 2020
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Can a True Christian Be Demon Possessed?
Roger E. Olson | March 15, 2020
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My Case for Greater Inclusion in "Diversity"
Roger E. Olson | March 10, 2020
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What Does "Post-Christian World" Mean?
Roger E. Olson | March 06, 2020
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Advice to Democrats about the Presidential Nomination
Roger E. Olson | February 29, 2020
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"Oh Lord! Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
Roger E. Olson | February 23, 2020
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What I Appreciate about Methodism
Roger E. Olson | February 21, 2020
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The Possibilities and Perils of Gene Editing
Roger E. Olson | February 19, 2020
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid...
Roger E. Olson | February 11, 2020
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Should I Doubt God?
Roger E. Olson | February 05, 2020
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Are All "Christians" True Christians?
Roger E. Olson | January 30, 2020
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I Interrupt This Series with a Sidebar about "Folk...
Roger E. Olson | January 24, 2020
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Pentecostal Theology: A Brief Description
Roger E. Olson | January 16, 2020
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Has Science Buried God? John Lennox Says No
Roger E. Olson | January 15, 2020
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A More Critical Look at Greg Boyd’s “Inspired...
Roger E. Olson | January 11, 2020
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Greg Boyd’s New Book about the Bible
Roger E. Olson | January 07, 2020
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The Devolution of Christian Congregational Song
Roger E. Olson | December 29, 2019
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What Church Was Like (When I Was a Child)
Roger E. Olson | December 27, 2019
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Reformed or Calvinist or Both? An Important Distinction
Roger E. Olson | December 18, 2019
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Guest Post Responding to My Essay about "Relational...
Roger E. Olson | December 07, 2019
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What If Twins in a Womb Could Think and Talk? A Parable
Roger E. Olson | December 02, 2019
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Has Franklin Graham Gone Off the Rails?
Roger E. Olson | November 29, 2019
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A Relational View of God's Sovereignty
Roger E. Olson | November 21, 2019
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Who Needs a God Who Looks Like Us?
Roger E. Olson | November 10, 2019
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The Fundamentalists Are At It Again
Roger E. Olson | November 03, 2019
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What Is It Like to Be Black in America?
Roger E. Olson | October 31, 2019
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Is It Ever Wrong for a Christian to Forgive?
Roger E. Olson | October 24, 2019
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Review of Lovin' On Jesus and Thoughts about CCM
Roger E. Olson | October 20, 2019
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Surprises in the History of Christian Ethics
Roger E. Olson | October 17, 2019
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Should Christian Worship Happen with a "Concert...
Roger E. Olson | October 12, 2019
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Our God Reigns (But How?)
Roger E. Olson | October 09, 2019
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A Scholar Who Denied Sex/Gender Difference Recants
Roger E. Olson | October 05, 2019
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Trump and the Rhetoric of Tyranny
Roger E. Olson | October 02, 2019
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An Ethical Dilemma Posed in a Stephen King Novel
Roger E. Olson | September 29, 2019
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Is Christianity Culturally Relative? A Question for...
Roger E. Olson | September 24, 2019
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What Would Be the Alternatives (To Theology Explaining...
Roger E. Olson | September 17, 2019
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What Does Theology Explain?
Roger E. Olson | September 13, 2019
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What Happened in 2015?
Roger E. Olson | September 09, 2019
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Do Arminians and Calvinists Worship the Same God? How?
Roger E. Olson | September 05, 2019
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Why Science and Theology Need Not Conflict
Roger E. Olson | September 01, 2019
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Has Science Buried God?
Roger E. Olson | August 29, 2019
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Spoke in Hitler's Wheel?
Roger E. Olson | August 22, 2019
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Could I Attend a Calvinist Church?
Roger E. Olson | August 20, 2019
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Cruelty to Children: Clear Evidence of Evil
Roger E. Olson | August 15, 2019
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Who Is Helping Christians Cope with Non-Christian...
Roger E. Olson | August 11, 2019
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Why True Christianity Can Never Be an Ideology
Roger E. Olson | August 02, 2019
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What Is an Ideology and How to Detect One
Roger E. Olson | July 31, 2019
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The Key Difference between Conservative and...
Roger E. Olson | July 27, 2019
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Stopping the Mouths of Evangelicalism’s Critics
Roger E. Olson | July 23, 2019
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9.5 Theses about Evangelical Christianity
Roger E. Olson | July 18, 2019
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What Is This Blog For? An Answer by Roger Olson
Roger E. Olson | July 17, 2019
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The New American Evangelical Liturgy
Roger E. Olson | July 12, 2019
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Where Is America Going?
Roger E. Olson | July 09, 2019
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The Humpty Dumpty Synderome
Roger E. Olson | July 06, 2019
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On Taking Satanists Seriously
Roger E. Olson | July 03, 2019
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Is Unlimited Pluralism Really a Good Idea?
Roger E. Olson | July 01, 2019
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Is Paradox Something Good in Christian Doctrine?
Roger E. Olson | June 24, 2019
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Why Compatibilism is Unbiblical
Roger E. Olson | June 19, 2019
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What Makes a Religious Group a Cult? Part 2
Roger E. Olson | May 16, 2019
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What Makes a Religious Group a "Cult?" Part 1
Roger E. Olson | May 13, 2019
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Why Do We (Christians) Put People on Pedestals?
Roger E. Olson | April 23, 2019
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Thank God for Mormons
Roger E. Olson | April 15, 2019
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What Does It Take to Be a "Christian?"
Roger E. Olson | April 11, 2019
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Is It Time for a Return to Common Sense?
Roger E. Olson | April 05, 2019
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Can a Modern Scientist Believe in God and Miracles?
Roger E. Olson | March 29, 2019
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What God Can, Can’t, and Won’t Do
Roger E. Olson | March 12, 2019
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Ethics and Toxic Masculinity
Roger E. Olson | March 05, 2019
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Our God Reigns (But How?)
Roger E. Olson | February 25, 2019
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Why Sexual Abuse within Baptist Churches Is Not the...
Roger E. Olson | February 16, 2019
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The Dark Side of Evangelicalism
Roger E. Olson | February 12, 2019
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Evangelicalism Again: Why Are They Not Using My...
Roger E. Olson | February 08, 2019
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Is Evangelicalism White?
Roger E. Olson | January 29, 2019
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What Is a "Moral Universe?"
Roger E. Olson | January 26, 2019
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Does God "Embrace All People Regardless...?"
Roger E. Olson | January 20, 2019
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"Something There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall"
Roger E. Olson | January 07, 2019
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Empathy Is Good; Justice Is Better
Roger E. Olson | January 04, 2019
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What Is the Foundation (If Any) of Human Rights?
Roger E. Olson | December 31, 2018
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Did Jesus "Sort" People?
Roger E. Olson | December 28, 2018
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What Do We Owe the Dead? A Question of Ethics
Roger E. Olson | December 24, 2018
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Is It Time for American Christians to Bow out of the...
Roger E. Olson | December 17, 2018
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Is It Time for American Christians to Bow Out of the...
Roger E. Olson | December 14, 2018
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Idolatry on a Billboard?
Roger E. Olson | December 11, 2018
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Is "Calminianism" Really a Thing?
Roger E. Olson | December 04, 2018
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"We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us" Thoughts about...
Roger E. Olson | December 01, 2018
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A Powerful Wedding Sermon: Example of "Prophecy?"
Roger E. Olson | November 26, 2018
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What Can Be “The Bible?”
Roger E. Olson | November 22, 2018
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Who Is an “Evangelical” and Who Gets to Decide?
Roger E. Olson | November 18, 2018
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The Prophethood of Every Believer
Roger E. Olson | November 13, 2018
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Billy Graham as "Pope" of Evangelicalism
Roger E. Olson | November 09, 2018
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Calvinism and Arminianism Compared by Roger E. Olson
Roger E. Olson | November 07, 2018
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Follow Up to My Recent Blog Post about American Men
Roger E. Olson | November 06, 2018
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Thoughts about Men in American Culture
Roger E. Olson | November 04, 2018
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What about "Death Bed Conversions?" Are They Valid?
Roger E. Olson | November 02, 2018
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Again with "Good God" and Calvinism
Roger E. Olson | October 28, 2018
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What Is a Postconservative Evangelical?
Roger E. Olson | October 22, 2018
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Some Uninvited Advice for the Democratic Party
Roger E. Olson | October 19, 2018
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Bonhoeffer, Ethics, and “Scruples”
Roger E. Olson | October 16, 2018
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Why Essentialism Is Essential (At Least to Me)
Roger E. Olson | October 14, 2018
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What Were You in the 1970s If You Remember...?
Roger E. Olson | October 11, 2018
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Does Calvinism Justify Domestic Abuse?
Roger E. Olson | October 07, 2018
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Back to Theology: Again with Arminianism
Roger E. Olson | October 01, 2018
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Why Income Tax Is the Only Fair Tax
Roger E. Olson | September 29, 2018
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The Many Faces of Socialism
Roger E. Olson | September 23, 2018
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Who Is God?
Roger E. Olson | September 17, 2018
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Is Truth Worth Seeking?
Roger E. Olson | September 12, 2018
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Sunday School
Roger E. Olson | September 07, 2018
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Does God Always Get His Way?
Roger E. Olson | September 03, 2018
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Two Spiritual Books You Ought to Read
Roger E. Olson | September 01, 2018
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What Are the Greatest Dangers to Christianity Today?
Roger E. Olson | August 17, 2018
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Why the Mega-Church Model Isn't Working
Roger E. Olson | August 09, 2018
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Who Is God?
Roger E. Olson | July 29, 2018
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Can Prayer Change God (Yes and No)
Roger E. Olson | July 20, 2018
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Is God Necessarily the All-Determining Reality?
Roger E. Olson | July 15, 2018
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Has the Time Come for a New Neo-Evangelicalism?
Roger E. Olson | June 25, 2018
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Is Cruelty to Children Ever Justifiable?
Roger E. Olson | June 17, 2018
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Is Suicide Sin?
Roger E. Olson | June 14, 2018
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Is It Okay to Hate Men?
Roger E. Olson | June 11, 2018
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Is the Evangelical Christianity of My Youth Gone?
Roger E. Olson | June 08, 2018
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Shopping for a Church (An Oldie but a Goodie)
Roger E. Olson | May 29, 2018
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My Feeble Attempts at Satire Miss the Mark
Roger E. Olson | May 26, 2018
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Who Is the Ruler of this World? An Answer for...
Roger E. Olson | May 22, 2018
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Who Is the Most Influential American Theologian?
Roger E. Olson | May 18, 2018
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My Most Important Book
Roger E. Olson | May 11, 2018
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Thoughts about Universalism
Roger E. Olson | April 27, 2018
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On the Other Hand: Some "Views from Somewhere"...
Roger E. Olson | April 16, 2018
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The Myth of "Secular Reasoning"
Roger E. Olson | April 13, 2018
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Christian Diversity: Is It Good or Bad or Both?
Roger E. Olson | April 09, 2018
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Easter Ought to Mean Joy!
Roger E. Olson | April 01, 2018
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Calvinism and Assurance of Salvation (or Not)
Roger E. Olson | March 29, 2018
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Torture Again: Why It Is Always Wrong and More
Roger E. Olson | March 18, 2018
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Final Thoughts about Church Discipline (For Now)
Roger E. Olson | March 09, 2018
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Whatever Happened to Church Discipline?
Roger E. Olson | March 05, 2018
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Remembering Billy Graham (1918-2018)
Roger E. Olson | February 25, 2018
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Would You Be Mad at God If He Saved Everyone?
Roger E. Olson | February 22, 2018
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It's Time for a National Conversation about Football
Roger E. Olson | February 03, 2018
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Why Do We Need Religious Labels?
Roger E. Olson | January 30, 2018
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An Open Letter to My Fellow Evangelicals about Trump
Roger E. Olson | January 18, 2018
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Deep Thoughts (Musings) about the Metaphysical...
Roger E. Olson | January 16, 2018
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How Much Change in Church Life is too Much?
Roger E. Olson | January 11, 2018
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Thoughts about the Future on New Year Day 2018
Roger E. Olson | January 01, 2018
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America has Become a Mission Field
Roger E. Olson | December 28, 2017
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Is There a Valid "Ethics of Distress?"
Roger E. Olson | December 23, 2017
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Thinking of Creation with Imagination
Roger E. Olson | December 12, 2017
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How an Old Religious Idea "Trickles Down" into...
Roger E. Olson | December 07, 2017
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How Should Christians Celebrate "Christmas?"
Roger E. Olson | December 03, 2017
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Are American Evangelicals "Reinventing" Christianity?
Roger E. Olson | November 29, 2017
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A Memorable Day: November 22, 1963
Roger E. Olson | November 22, 2017
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Does God Change?
Roger E. Olson | November 10, 2017
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American Lutheran Theologians I Have Known
Roger E. Olson | November 07, 2017
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Is the Roman Catholic Church Catholic Enough?
Roger E. Olson | October 27, 2017
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When It Comes to Calvinism, Logic Can Lead to Heresy
Roger E. Olson | October 01, 2017
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Ought I to Repent of Being a White Male?
Roger E. Olson | September 27, 2017
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Is "Normal" Really Just a Setting on the Washing Machine?
Roger E. Olson | September 24, 2017
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Can Mormons Be Christians?
Roger E. Olson | September 20, 2017
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The Legacy of the Reformation in Contemporary...
Roger E. Olson | September 17, 2017
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Arminianism Is Grace-Centered Theology
Roger E. Olson | September 12, 2017
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Why Can't There Be Organizations Just for Boys?
Roger E. Olson | August 26, 2017
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Can a Preemptive War Ever Be Justified?
Roger E. Olson | August 12, 2017
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Do Women Make Good Ministers?
Roger E. Olson | August 09, 2017
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What Is "Liberal Christianity?"
Roger E. Olson | August 05, 2017
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What Is "Fundamentalism?"
Roger E. Olson | August 02, 2017
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What Is an "Evangelical" and Does It Matter?
Roger E. Olson | July 28, 2017
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Is God Finite?
Roger E. Olson | July 23, 2017
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You Might Still Be a Fundamentalist Even If...
Roger E. Olson | July 18, 2017
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A New Christian Dogmatics from Eerdmans
Roger E. Olson | July 16, 2017
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Does Justice Require Inclusion and Diversity?
Roger E. Olson | July 01, 2017
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Is There a New Form of Lynching in America?
Roger E. Olson | June 18, 2017
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Stranger Things? Does God Still Speak?
Roger E. Olson | June 15, 2017
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Is God Our Father?
Roger E. Olson | June 09, 2017
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Memories and Thoughts about Thomas Oden
Roger E. Olson | June 06, 2017
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Response to "the Benedict Option"
Roger E. Olson | June 03, 2017
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A Personal Note for Those Who Are Interested...
Roger E. Olson | May 26, 2017
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Is There Meaning and Purpose to Life?
Roger E. Olson | May 22, 2017
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Why I Voted for Trump
Roger E. Olson | May 19, 2017
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The Best Idea Ever
Roger E. Olson | May 14, 2017
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The Worst Idea Ever
Roger E. Olson | May 11, 2017
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Should Churches Engage in Partisan Politicking?
Roger E. Olson | May 08, 2017
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Why Do We Not Hear More about "Rich Privilege?"
Roger E. Olson | May 06, 2017
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Can Science Alone Decide the Meaning of "Human?"
Roger E. Olson | May 03, 2017
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Complimentary Book Offer...
Roger E. Olson | May 02, 2017
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What It Means If You Remember...
Roger E. Olson | April 28, 2017
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What Does It Mean to Be "Catholic?"
Roger E. Olson | April 22, 2017
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The Problem of "Echo Chambers"
Roger E. Olson | April 05, 2017
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Would Someone Please Rein in Some of the "Young...
Roger E. Olson | April 01, 2017
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Whatever Happened to "Friendship with Jesus?"
Roger E. Olson | March 26, 2017
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A Statement of Confession and Commitment
Roger E. Olson | March 24, 2017
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Thoughts about Church and Holy Spirit (by a...
Roger E. Olson | March 22, 2017
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My Review of the Movie "The Shack"
Roger E. Olson | March 16, 2017
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Follow Up to My Blog Post about the Transgender...
Roger E. Olson | March 14, 2017
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Reality: Code or Narrative?
Roger E. Olson | March 08, 2017
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My Movie Review of "The Shack"
Roger E. Olson | March 07, 2017
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Finding God in "The Shack"
Roger E. Olson | March 04, 2017
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Was Pope Francis Wrong about Islam?
Roger E. Olson | March 02, 2017
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Reinhold Niebuhr and Stanley Hauerwas: Can Their...
Roger E. Olson | February 28, 2017
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Innocent until Proven Guilty? Or Guilty until Proven...
Roger E. Olson | February 25, 2017
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What Do I Mean by the "Supernatural?"
Roger E. Olson | February 21, 2017
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Announcing My New Book...
Roger E. Olson | February 16, 2017
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Sex, Money and Power: How We Confirm the...
Roger E. Olson | February 10, 2017
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A Great Irony: Contemporary American "Conservative"...
Roger E. Olson | February 03, 2017
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Is There Anything We Can Take for Granted (that All...
Roger E. Olson | January 31, 2017
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Are There "Wicked Problems" in Theology?
Roger E. Olson | January 29, 2017
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Can African-American Christians Be "Evangelicals?"
Roger E. Olson | January 26, 2017
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Does the Reformation Still Matter?
Roger E. Olson | January 21, 2017
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A Day I Cannot Celebrate: Inauguration Day, 2017
Roger E. Olson | January 20, 2017
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Must Science and Religion Conflict?
Roger E. Olson | January 12, 2017
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The "Disappearing Middle" in American Political and...
Roger E. Olson | January 06, 2017
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Must a Christian Forgive Unconditionally?
Roger E. Olson | January 02, 2017
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A Quick Course in Rational Thought (and Persuasive...
Roger E. Olson | December 30, 2016
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On Learning Our Lessons from History
Roger E. Olson | December 28, 2016
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Two Evangelical Churches on Christmas Eve (2016): As...
Roger E. Olson | December 25, 2016
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Merry Christmas and Please Be Patient....
Roger E. Olson | December 23, 2016
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An Excellent Arminian Book on Divine Providence
Roger E. Olson | December 22, 2016
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A Kerfuffle over "Church Autonomy" among Baptists
Roger E. Olson | December 14, 2016
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And Now It Begins: Trump's Ignorant and Un-American...
Roger E. Olson | December 10, 2016
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What Living in a Post-Truth Culture Means
Roger E. Olson | December 07, 2016
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What Makes Someone an "Evangelical?"
Roger E. Olson | December 01, 2016
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Is There Such a Thing as "Collective Guilt?"
Roger E. Olson | November 29, 2016
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Thoughts about Fidel Castro
Roger E. Olson | November 27, 2016
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Do Adherents of Abrahamic Faiths Worship the Same God?
Roger E. Olson | November 25, 2016
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R.I.P. Ivan A. Rogers (of "Good Report")
Roger E. Olson | November 23, 2016
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A Different Interprtation of American History (Worth...
Roger E. Olson | November 22, 2016
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Is "Mansplaining" a Thing?
Roger E. Olson | November 21, 2016
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Why I Will Still Not Stop Calling Myself "Evangelical"
Roger E. Olson | November 18, 2016
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Should Christians Worship and Pray together with...
Roger E. Olson | November 16, 2016
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Finally, My Thoughts about the 2016 Election
Roger E. Olson | November 13, 2016
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How Denominations Can Survive (If They Should)
Roger E. Olson | November 08, 2016
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"In Defense of Denominationalism"
Roger E. Olson | November 05, 2016
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Thoughts about Liberation Theologies
Roger E. Olson | November 02, 2016
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The Dark Side of Pentecostalism
Roger E. Olson | October 31, 2016
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What Is Pentecostalism? What Do Pentecostals Believe?
Roger E. Olson | October 29, 2016
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A Few Brief Thoughts about Blogging...
Roger E. Olson | October 27, 2016
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A Shout Out for "Movember"
Roger E. Olson | October 25, 2016
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What to Do about "Angry, White Men?"
Roger E. Olson | October 20, 2016
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Follow Up to My Post about Denominations: Is Church...
Roger E. Olson | October 15, 2016
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Reflections about Billy Graham...
Roger E. Olson | October 07, 2016
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Do Not Blame All White Men for Donald Trump
Roger E. Olson | September 28, 2016
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Review of Evangelicalism in America by Randall Balmer
Roger E. Olson | September 25, 2016
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"#Some Lives Matter" and Calvinism: My Response to the...
Roger E. Olson | September 22, 2016
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All Lives Matter (But Do Some Matter More Than Others?)
Roger E. Olson | September 19, 2016
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An Open Letter to the Members of the Evangelical...
Roger E. Olson | September 16, 2016
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Why Are We So Afraid of Emotion in Worship?
Roger E. Olson | September 10, 2016
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Evangelical Christian Thoughts about "Mindfulness"
Roger E. Olson | September 07, 2016
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Why I Am Not a Fan of Contemporary American Sports
Roger E. Olson | September 04, 2016
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Is There a "Christian Ideology?"
Roger E. Olson | September 01, 2016
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One of American Evangelicalism's Biggest Failures...
Roger E. Olson | August 30, 2016
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Preview of a New Book about Calvinism...
Roger E. Olson | August 23, 2016
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Whatever Happened to "Missions Sunday?"
Roger E. Olson | July 17, 2016
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Help Needed with Denomination: Plymouth Brethren
Roger E. Olson | July 10, 2016
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Coming Soon...Please Watch for These Here!
Roger E. Olson | July 06, 2016
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Back by Popular Demand (But Changed)
Roger E. Olson | July 01, 2016
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What Is an "Evangelical?"
Roger E. Olson | June 21, 2016
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Am I "Neo-Orthodox?"
Roger E. Olson | June 19, 2016
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Is American Society Descending into "Anomie?"
Roger E. Olson | June 16, 2016
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Is Donald Trump the Antichrist?
Roger E. Olson | June 11, 2016
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Should Western Christians Rediscover Exorcism?
Roger E. Olson | June 09, 2016
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Ask a Theologian a Question
Roger E. Olson | May 31, 2016
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Largely Ignored Forms of Oppression
Roger E. Olson | May 29, 2016
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Saving Hell
Roger E. Olson | May 19, 2016
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A Pentecost Sermon: The Holy Spirit...
Roger E. Olson | May 15, 2016
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Dreaming of the Ideal "Mission Trip"
Roger E. Olson | May 08, 2016
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On the Mystery and Meaning of Perspectives
Roger E. Olson | May 04, 2016
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A Long Essay on "Christian Fundamentalism"
Roger E. Olson | May 02, 2016
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Deconstructing "Evangelicalism"
Roger E. Olson | April 29, 2016
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Why Can't We Just Call Ourselves "Christians?"
Roger E. Olson | April 26, 2016
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Does God Still Speak....?
Roger E. Olson | April 20, 2016
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Hell (Again)
Roger E. Olson | April 12, 2016
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Fixing Men (and Boys)
Roger E. Olson | April 10, 2016
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C. S. Lewis: Calvinist or Classical Arminian?
Roger E. Olson | April 07, 2016
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Announcements: Book, Chapters and Talks
Roger E. Olson | April 06, 2016
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Is There a "Christian Economics?"
Roger E. Olson | April 03, 2016
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"Evangelical" Is Not a Political Identity
Roger E. Olson | March 30, 2016
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Stanley Hauerwas and the Church
Roger E. Olson | March 27, 2016
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Keeping Good Company
Roger E. Olson | March 25, 2016
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Make a Difference--for Boys
Roger E. Olson | March 21, 2016
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About Commenting Here....
Roger E. Olson | March 19, 2016
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If God Once (upon a Time) Commanded Genocide...
Roger E. Olson | March 18, 2016
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Ideal Types of Christian Responses to Gender Roles
Roger E. Olson | March 15, 2016
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John Piper Does It Again: My Response to "The...
Roger E. Olson | March 12, 2016
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Am I an "Authentic Christian?" (I Doubt It)
Roger E. Olson | March 09, 2016
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Is Torture Ever Ethically Justifiable?
Roger E. Olson | February 28, 2016
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My Christianity Today Article about "Freedom"
Roger E. Olson | February 25, 2016
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The Pope and Donald Trump
Roger E. Olson | February 20, 2016
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Is Real Communication as Perfect "Meeting of Minds"...
Roger E. Olson | February 17, 2016
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Election is for Everyone
Roger E. Olson | February 13, 2016
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The New Theists
Roger E. Olson | February 07, 2016
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A Classic Book about "Corporate Election" Revised,...
Roger E. Olson | February 05, 2016
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Thoughts about Iowa, American Politics, and the Media
Roger E. Olson | February 03, 2016
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So What, Then, Is "American Evangelicalism?"
Roger E. Olson | February 01, 2016
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Denomination of the Week: Church of God (Anderson,...
Roger E. Olson | January 29, 2016
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Calling out "Calling out 'American Evangelicalism'"
Roger E. Olson | January 26, 2016
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Is Modern Unbelief Rooted in Christianity?
Roger E. Olson | January 23, 2016
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John Piper and "Christian Hedonism"
Roger E. Olson | January 21, 2016
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Narrative Theology Explained
Roger E. Olson | January 15, 2016
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Critical Thoughts about Belief in God and Modern...
Roger E. Olson | January 13, 2016
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Denomination of the Week: Beachy Amish
Roger E. Olson | January 10, 2016
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A Look Back and a Look Forward: 2015 and 2016
Roger E. Olson | January 03, 2016
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Christianity's Greatest Enemy
Roger E. Olson | January 01, 2016
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Do All Atheists Deny the Same God?
Roger E. Olson | December 27, 2015
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Do All Christians Worship the Same God?
Roger E. Olson | December 22, 2015
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Again the Curmudgeon Comes Out: Some Miscellaneous...
Roger E. Olson | December 19, 2015
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Denomination of the Week: Brethren in Christ Church
Roger E. Olson | December 16, 2015
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Denomination of the Week: Grace Communion International
Roger E. Olson | December 10, 2015
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Miscellaneous Footnotes to Earlier Posts: Feminism,...
Roger E. Olson | December 09, 2015
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Request for Help with The Handbook of Denominations
Roger E. Olson | December 08, 2015
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And then Again...Clarifications about "Christian...
Roger E. Olson | December 04, 2015
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A Call for American Evangelical Leaders to Confront...
Roger E. Olson | December 03, 2015
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A National Registry for Adherents of a Certain World...
Roger E. Olson | November 26, 2015
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Thanksgiving Thoughts
Roger E. Olson | November 23, 2015
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An Evangelical Superstar Scholar: Alister McGrath
Roger E. Olson | November 18, 2015
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Where Calvinists, Lutherans, Arminians (and Some...
Roger E. Olson | November 16, 2015
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Is "Following Jesus" Enough?
Roger E. Olson | November 14, 2015
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The "Catastrophe of Nominalism"
Roger E. Olson | November 11, 2015
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Just Passed a Milestone! One Thousand Posts!
Roger E. Olson | November 10, 2015
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Defending Denominations in a "Postdenominational Age"
Roger E. Olson | November 09, 2015
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Is the Bible "Inerrant" or "Infallible?"
Roger E. Olson | November 05, 2015
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What Is a "Complete Gospel?"
Roger E. Olson | November 03, 2015
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The Power of Negative Thinking
Roger E. Olson | November 01, 2015
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Here Comes "Movember?" (Or Not)
Roger E. Olson | October 30, 2015
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More God Talk: "Trinity Means Love"
Roger E. Olson | October 27, 2015
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"Let's Talk about Jesus" Our Prophet, Priest and King
Roger E. Olson | October 24, 2015
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Why I Still Call Myself "Evangelical" in Spite of...
Roger E. Olson | October 15, 2015
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Holley-Hull Lecture "A Relational View of God's...
Roger E. Olson | October 13, 2015
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My Holley-Hull Lectures at Samford University
Roger E. Olson | October 09, 2015
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Is There a Role for Shaming in Public Ethics?
Roger E. Olson | October 08, 2015
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Guest Column from Austin Fischer: Monergism...
Roger E. Olson | October 03, 2015
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Returning to My Roots for One Day
Roger E. Olson | September 27, 2015
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Is It Capitalism at Work or "Gouging" or Both?
Roger E. Olson | September 24, 2015
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Should A Christian Be President of the United States?
Roger E. Olson | September 21, 2015
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Bill Gaither and Me...
Roger E. Olson | September 17, 2015
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Seminary Chapel Sermon "Certainty Not" (September 15,...
Roger E. Olson | September 15, 2015
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Would Someone in the American Mass News Media Please...
Roger E. Olson | September 15, 2015
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A New Book Discussion Series: Scot McKnight's "Kingdom...
Roger E. Olson | September 14, 2015
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Is the "Prosperity Gospel" a Variety of Evangelicalism?
Roger E. Olson | September 11, 2015
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Guest Post about "Fallen Christian Leaders"
Roger E. Olson | September 09, 2015
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Some Things I Have Learned from Blogging
Roger E. Olson | September 03, 2015
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An Invitation to Hear Me Speak...with Bill Gaither
Roger E. Olson | August 27, 2015
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Over Reactions and the Search for Balance
Roger E. Olson | August 17, 2015
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What's with the Popularity of Off-Beat Political...
Roger E. Olson | August 15, 2015
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Help with New Denominations
Roger E. Olson | August 09, 2015
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Whatever Happened to the Christian Mind?
Roger E. Olson | August 04, 2015
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True Christian Ecumenism: Reconciled Diversity
Roger E. Olson | August 02, 2015
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A Major Problem I See with American Culture Today
Roger E. Olson | July 11, 2015
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Reconsidering My Statements about Pope Francis
Roger E. Olson | July 08, 2015
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Must Gays Be Offended?
Roger E. Olson | July 01, 2015
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And Now...What Conservative Churches Must Do
Roger E. Olson | June 27, 2015
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Who Decides Who's A Christian?
Roger E. Olson | June 19, 2015
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Shallow Religious Fads and Fashions
Roger E. Olson | June 17, 2015
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A Plea for Patience
Roger E. Olson | June 14, 2015
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Follow Up to My Post about Mormonism
Roger E. Olson | June 13, 2015
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Follow Up to My Post about Marriage
Roger E. Olson | June 06, 2015
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Arminius's Reformed Doctrine of Justification
Roger E. Olson | June 01, 2015
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Calling for Total Transparency by Churches
Roger E. Olson | May 24, 2015
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Is God "A Being" Or "Being Itself?"
Roger E. Olson | May 16, 2015
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Is God Also Our Mother?
Roger E. Olson | May 10, 2015
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Boys and Men Suffer Sex Abuse, Too....
Roger E. Olson | May 04, 2015
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Embarrased by the Supernatural?
Roger E. Olson | April 29, 2015
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Thoughts about Old School Christian Hymns and Songs
Roger E. Olson | April 28, 2015
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The Problem of Irrational, Unteachable Christians
Roger E. Olson | April 26, 2015
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Adam Hamilton and Me
Roger E. Olson | April 25, 2015
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Clearing Up Some Christian Confusions about "Doubt"
Roger E. Olson | April 20, 2015
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"Progressive Evangelicals": Where Are They Now?
Roger E. Olson | April 18, 2015
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Recent Podcasts
Roger E. Olson | April 17, 2015
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Why Hyper-Calvinism Is Consistent Calvinism
Roger E. Olson | April 15, 2015
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Thoughts about Detente with Cuba
Roger E. Olson | April 12, 2015
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Where Does Theology Really Matter?
Roger E. Olson | April 07, 2015
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Against the Political Misuses of Words
Roger E. Olson | April 06, 2015
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Easter Ought to Mean Joy
Roger E. Olson | April 05, 2015
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Guest Good Friday Post by Austin Fischer
Roger E. Olson | April 03, 2015
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Creating a Course for FaithLife
Roger E. Olson | March 16, 2015
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Dr. Seuss Was Right
Roger E. Olson | March 14, 2015
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What Is the Old Testament Good For--Doctrinally?
Roger E. Olson | March 11, 2015
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Can "Authentic Christianity" Be Found Today?
Roger E. Olson | March 08, 2015
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Confessions of an Egalitarian Complementarian
Roger E. Olson | March 04, 2015
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The Sin of Tribalism
Roger E. Olson | March 01, 2015
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Theology and Speculation
Roger E. Olson | February 17, 2015
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Calvinism and Evangelism
Roger E. Olson | February 14, 2015
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A Reformed Theologian's Critique of Divine Determinism
Roger E. Olson | February 12, 2015
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What I Mean When I Label Someone “Liberal,”...
Roger E. Olson | February 10, 2015
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"Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed" a Year Later:...
Roger E. Olson | February 02, 2015
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Private Sector Redistribution of Wealth?
Roger E. Olson | January 19, 2015
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Terrorism Is Wrong; So Is Ridiculing People's Faiths
Roger E. Olson | January 17, 2015
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An Encouraging Message about "Against Calvinism"
Roger E. Olson | January 08, 2015
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Review of Oliver Crisp's "Deviant Calvinism" Part Four
Roger E. Olson | December 30, 2014
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Review of Oliver Crisp's "Deviant Calvinism" Part Three
Roger E. Olson | December 24, 2014
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Review of Oliver Crisp's "Deviant Calvinism" Part Two
Roger E. Olson | December 20, 2014
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My Briefest Post Ever...But Perhaps Most Important!
Roger E. Olson | December 19, 2014
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Review of Oliver Crisp's "Deviant Calvinism" Part One
Roger E. Olson | December 18, 2014
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My Response to John Piper's Comments about Arminians
Roger E. Olson | December 14, 2014
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What "American Exceptionalism" Means to Me
Roger E. Olson | December 10, 2014
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Can a Single Act Be Both Determined and Free?
Roger E. Olson | December 07, 2014
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Two Forthcoming Books about Pietism
Roger E. Olson | December 03, 2014
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When I Say "Calvinism"...
Roger E. Olson | November 24, 2014
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Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?
Roger E. Olson | November 11, 2014
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Can We Dispense with the "Wrath of God?" (And Some...
Roger E. Olson | November 08, 2014
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What Is a "Spirit-filled" and "Spirit-led" Church?
Roger E. Olson | October 23, 2014
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Can A Christian Support "Physician-Assisted Suicide?"
Roger E. Olson | October 18, 2014
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Leaving Behind "Left Behind"
Roger E. Olson | October 15, 2014
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Is A "Carnal Christian" Saved? (Part Three)
Roger E. Olson | October 12, 2014
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Is A "Carnal Christian" Saved? (Part Two)
Roger E. Olson | October 10, 2014
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Is A "Carnal Christian" Saved? (Part One)
Roger E. Olson | October 08, 2014
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"Big Tent" Versus "Small Tent" Evangelicalism
Roger E. Olson | October 06, 2014
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John Owen on Partial Regeneration (Prevenient Grace)
Roger E. Olson | October 01, 2014
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What Did Charles Hodge Say about "The Decrees of God?"...
Roger E. Olson | September 26, 2014
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What Did Charles Hodge Say about "The Decrees of God?"
Roger E. Olson | September 25, 2014
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A Curse of Living Long: Having Seen It All Before...
Roger E. Olson | September 22, 2014
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Calvinism and God-ordained Suffering: A Follow Up
Roger E. Olson | September 20, 2014
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A Question to Calvinists
Roger E. Olson | September 18, 2014
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What about "Contextual Theologies?"
Roger E. Olson | September 16, 2014
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Should Pastors Be Trained in Mental Health Care-giving?
Roger E. Olson | September 14, 2014
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What Is the Duty of a Christian Care-giver (Such as a...
Roger E. Olson | September 12, 2014
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What Is "Marcionism?" My Response to a Ludicrous...
Roger E. Olson | September 09, 2014
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Wolfhart Pannenberg R.I.P.
Roger E. Olson | September 08, 2014
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Who's a "Real Evangelical?"
Roger E. Olson | September 07, 2014
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Kudos to Two Former Students: A Book and A Debate
Roger E. Olson | September 04, 2014
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Some Follow-up Thoughts about God and Genocide
Roger E. Olson | September 02, 2014
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Evangelical Superstars and Why They Fall
Roger E. Olson | August 30, 2014
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God and Children: Would Jesus (God) Command Their...
Roger E. Olson | August 22, 2014
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Follow Up to My Post about the Paranormal
Roger E. Olson | August 21, 2014
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How Open Should Christians Be to the "Paranormal?"
Roger E. Olson | August 20, 2014
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A Sermon: "Community: The Impossible Possibility"
Roger E. Olson | August 17, 2014
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Intuitive Evangelical Theology versus Scholastic...
Roger E. Olson | August 15, 2014
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My Q&A about Arminianism Now an E-Book
Roger E. Olson | August 14, 2014
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"God's Will" In Calvinism and Arminianism
Roger E. Olson | August 12, 2014
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Can God Make Himself Dependent on Us?
Roger E. Olson | August 09, 2014
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Selective Memory in History Books
Roger E. Olson | August 04, 2014
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Beware of Stealth Calvinism!
Roger E. Olson | July 31, 2014
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Are We Descending into Barbarity?
Roger E. Olson | July 28, 2014
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Evil As Signal of Transcendence
Roger E. Olson | July 26, 2014
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There Are No Atheists in Foxholes...Or Anywhere?
Roger E. Olson | July 17, 2014
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A Few Words about this Blog...
Roger E. Olson | July 16, 2014
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Am I a Man or What?
Roger E. Olson | June 12, 2014
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Subterranean Theology (Part 2)
Roger E. Olson | June 10, 2014
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Subterranean Theology (Part 1)
Roger E. Olson | June 07, 2014
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What Will Those Who Come after Us Say about Us?
Roger E. Olson | June 05, 2014
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Could Jesus Have Made Mistakes? An Exercise in...
Roger E. Olson | June 02, 2014
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Further Adventures in Missing the Point...
Roger E. Olson | May 27, 2014
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If I Were a Naturalist....
Roger E. Olson | May 24, 2014
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Something for Arminius Geeks
Roger E. Olson | May 04, 2014
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Theologians I Have Known: Reflections on Their...
Roger E. Olson | April 30, 2014
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Theologians I Have Known: Reflections on Their...
Roger E. Olson | April 26, 2014
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Faith and Reason: Is Christianity Irrational?
Roger E. Olson | April 24, 2014
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Some Emil Brunner Sayings (from Dogmatics, Vol. I)
Roger E. Olson | April 16, 2014
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Does God Change?
Roger E. Olson | April 06, 2014
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Good Books on the Holy Spirit?
Roger E. Olson | April 06, 2014
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What We Should Learn from "12 Years a Slave"
Roger E. Olson | March 31, 2014
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Is the "Arminian God" Good?
Roger E. Olson | March 29, 2014
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Off the Usual Topics: Gender Double Stereotypes
Roger E. Olson | March 26, 2014
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Follow Up to Why (High) Calvinism Is Impossible
Roger E. Olson | March 19, 2014
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Why (High) Calvinism Is Impossible
Roger E. Olson | March 16, 2014
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A Final Word about the "Gay Wedding Cake" Issue
Roger E. Olson | March 09, 2014
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What Is "History of...?"
Roger E. Olson | March 03, 2014
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Arminianism and Providence
Roger E. Olson | March 02, 2014
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Is Arminianism "Reformed?"
Roger E. Olson | February 27, 2014
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A Good New Book: A Missional Orthodoxy: Theology and...
Roger E. Olson | February 25, 2014
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The "God of the Gaps": Right Use, Wrong Use
Roger E. Olson | February 23, 2014
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A Problem in Evangelicalism: Narcissistic Leaders
Roger E. Olson | February 21, 2014
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On Telling Inconvenient and Uncomfortable Truths
Roger E. Olson | February 18, 2014
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Church Shopping: Some Guidelines
Roger E. Olson | February 15, 2014
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Thank God for Non-Fighting Fundamentalists
Roger E. Olson | February 12, 2014
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Excerpt from Austin Fischer's Excellent Book Young,...
Roger E. Olson | February 09, 2014
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Is the Problem Calvinism or Fundamentalism (or the...
Roger E. Olson | February 04, 2014
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Where in the Devil is Satan (in Modern Theology)?
Roger E. Olson | February 01, 2014
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Announcing a New Blog and Its First Post
Roger E. Olson | January 30, 2014
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Why I Am Not a Deist (No Offense to Deists)
Roger E. Olson | January 20, 2014
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Are All Idols Equal?
Roger E. Olson | January 18, 2014
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Whatever Happened to the New Age Movement (NAM)?
Roger E. Olson | January 13, 2014
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Books I'm Reading Right Now (and Why)
Roger E. Olson | January 11, 2014
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Christian Philosophy for Newbies
Roger E. Olson | December 30, 2013
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The Parable of the Carnival and the "Freak Show"
Roger E. Olson | December 23, 2013
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Why I Don't Respond to Every Critic or Debate Every...
Roger E. Olson | December 18, 2013
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Inclusivism Revisited: Guest Post by William Walker III
Roger E. Olson | December 16, 2013
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How We Should Handle "Fallen Leaders"
Roger E. Olson | December 14, 2013
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Review of Apostles of Reason by Molly Worthen Part Two
Roger E. Olson | December 13, 2013
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Is America Becoming a Police State?
Roger E. Olson | December 06, 2013
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Why I Am Not a Process Theologian
Roger E. Olson | December 04, 2013
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Explaining Calvinism to Calvinists (and Others)
Roger E. Olson | November 30, 2013
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Changing My Mind (Some) about Pope Francis
Roger E. Olson | November 28, 2013
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My Response to Two Books about Arminius
Roger E. Olson | November 27, 2013
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Was Arminius an Arminian? (Report on A Vigorous...
Roger E. Olson | November 25, 2013
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Can a Calvinist Pray for His Child to Be "Elect?"
Roger E. Olson | November 23, 2013
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Is Prejudice always Conscious (or Can It Be...
Roger E. Olson | November 21, 2013
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Must One Agree with Arminius to be Arminian?
Roger E. Olson | November 14, 2013
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Needed: Robust Arminian Theology for Lay People...
Roger E. Olson | November 12, 2013
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"The Journey of Modern Theology" Is Published!
Roger E. Olson | November 07, 2013
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Right, Wrong, and Necessary
Roger E. Olson | November 05, 2013
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What it looks like when God is busy among us
Roger E. Olson | November 03, 2013
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How Do We Know When God Is "Busy" Among Us?
Roger E. Olson | November 01, 2013
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Scripture and Tradition Again: What John Calvin Said
Roger E. Olson | October 30, 2013
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"Strange Fire?" Fundamentalists and the Holy Spirit
Roger E. Olson | October 28, 2013
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The Ethics of Football
Roger E. Olson | October 10, 2013
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What Is "Liberal Theology?"
Roger E. Olson | October 08, 2013
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Case Studies in "Re-forming Orthodoxy"
Roger E. Olson | October 06, 2013
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Returning to the Issue of International Adoption
Roger E. Olson | October 01, 2013
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What Should a Pastor Say to a Group of Boys?
Roger E. Olson | September 27, 2013
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Another Round in the Old "Evolution vs. Creation" Debate
Roger E. Olson | September 24, 2013
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Calvinism Appearing in Unexpected (and Innapropriate)...
Roger E. Olson | September 19, 2013
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Excellent New Book about Calvin and Wesley
Roger E. Olson | September 14, 2013
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He Said It Better Than I Did: A Guest's Comment about...
Roger E. Olson | September 06, 2013
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Are Arminian Theology and Middle Knowledge Compatible?
Roger E. Olson | September 04, 2013
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Modernity and Christianity: Like Oil and Water? Part 3...
Roger E. Olson | September 01, 2013
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An Arminian Ordo Salutis (Order of Salvation)
Roger E. Olson | August 23, 2013
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"Precious Moments Christianity"
Roger E. Olson | August 21, 2013
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A Brief Summer Hiatus
Roger E. Olson | August 13, 2013
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T.A.C.O.s Anyone?
Roger E. Olson | August 10, 2013
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Why I Do Not Believe in Absolute "Body Autonomy"
Roger E. Olson | August 05, 2013
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Leaves from the Notebook of a Not-So-Tamed Cynic
Roger E. Olson | August 03, 2013
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Questions about Both Sides of the Abortion Debate
Roger E. Olson | July 31, 2013
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Is there Vitality in "Mainline Religion?"
Roger E. Olson | July 24, 2013
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Jesus Always First (Not "Jesus Only")
Roger E. Olson | July 22, 2013
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A New Book about Hell that Will Make You Think
Roger E. Olson | July 17, 2013
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The Heresy of Capital Punishment
Roger E. Olson | July 03, 2013
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Disingenuous Calvinists?
Roger E. Olson | June 27, 2013
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You Might Be "Reformed" If...
Roger E. Olson | June 24, 2013
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"Hitlerland"--Can It Happen Here (in America)?
Roger E. Olson | June 17, 2013
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Follow Up to My Post about Gay Boy Scouts
Roger E. Olson | June 11, 2013
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Gay Boy Scouts--So What?
Roger E. Olson | June 09, 2013
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Games (Some) Theologians Play
Roger E. Olson | June 04, 2013
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What Is Theology and Who Does It? Part 3 (Final)
Roger E. Olson | May 30, 2013
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What Is Theology and Who Does It? Part 2
Roger E. Olson | May 28, 2013
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What Is "Theology" and Who Does It? Part 1
Roger E. Olson | May 26, 2013
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Shocking Sermon by Presiding Episcopal Bishop
Roger E. Olson | May 25, 2013
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Practical Implications of Satanic Realism
Roger E. Olson | May 23, 2013
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Is the Bible Unclear? A Guide for the Perplexed
Roger E. Olson | May 15, 2013
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Philosophers "doing" theology: pros and cons
Roger E. Olson | May 13, 2013
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A Concentration Camp by Any Other Name...
Roger E. Olson | May 09, 2013
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A New Liberation Theology?
Roger E. Olson | May 08, 2013
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How Important is the Doctrine of the Trinity?
Roger E. Olson | April 29, 2013
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What Is "God's Will" and How Can One Find It?
Roger E. Olson | April 27, 2013
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Why I Despise the Mainstream (American) News Media
Roger E. Olson | April 25, 2013
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Where Was God when the Fertilizer Plant Exploded?
Roger E. Olson | April 19, 2013
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Is Religion Really Declining in America?
Roger E. Olson | April 17, 2013
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Changes Coming to Patheos Blogs....
Roger E. Olson | April 17, 2013
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Missio Alliance Book Sale (Really Good Deals!)
Roger E. Olson | April 16, 2013
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Luther and "Double Predestination"
Roger E. Olson | April 10, 2013
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Evangelicals and Liberation Theology
Roger E. Olson | April 08, 2013
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Why Do We Call It "Good Friday" When....?
Roger E. Olson | March 29, 2013
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What's Wrong with Calvinism?
Roger E. Olson | March 22, 2013
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Our God Is An...Ethical (!) God
Roger E. Olson | March 16, 2013
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Why Did the U.S. Demonize Hugo Chavez?
Roger E. Olson | March 15, 2013
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"We Have A Pope!" (Who Cares?)
Roger E. Olson | March 14, 2013
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What Is "Authority?"
Roger E. Olson | March 07, 2013
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Safe and Unsafe Sects (and What To Call Them!)
Roger E. Olson | March 05, 2013
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Remembering C. Everett Koop (and Lewis Smedes)
Roger E. Olson | February 26, 2013
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R. C. Sproul, Arminianism, and Semi-Pelagianism
Roger E. Olson | February 22, 2013
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A Few Suggestions and Guidelines for Commenting Here
Roger E. Olson | February 21, 2013
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Is a "Consumption Tax" Fair?
Roger E. Olson | February 19, 2013
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Godless Capitalism?
Roger E. Olson | February 17, 2013
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Why I Am Not a Fundamentalist (or Conservative...
Roger E. Olson | February 14, 2013
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What Is "Fundamentalism" and Who Is a "Fundamentalist?"
Roger E. Olson | February 12, 2013
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Problems with Calvinist Polemics against Arminianism
Roger E. Olson | February 10, 2013
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Why I Am Not a "Liberal Christian"
Roger E. Olson | February 07, 2013
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Why I Love and Worship God
Roger E. Olson | February 03, 2013
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Review of "An Evangelical Manifesto" Part 3 (Final)
Roger E. Olson | February 01, 2013
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Review of "An Evangelical Manifesto" Part 2
Roger E. Olson | January 29, 2013
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Review of "An Evangelical Manifesto" Part 1
Roger E. Olson | January 27, 2013
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Did Karl Barth Really Say "Jesus Loves Me, This I...
Roger E. Olson | January 24, 2013
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What Counts as "Religion" and Why Does It Matter?
Roger E. Olson | January 23, 2013
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A Plug for My Current Article on "Election" in...
Roger E. Olson | January 08, 2013
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Another Calvinist Misrepresentation of Arminianism
Roger E. Olson | January 05, 2013
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A Letter from a Young Christian Reader of "Against...
Roger E. Olson | December 29, 2012
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Calvinism and the God-as-author analogy
Roger E. Olson | December 26, 2012
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End of the World or World without End?
Roger E. Olson | December 21, 2012
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Kudos to Courageous Columnist Kathleen Parker
Roger E. Olson | December 14, 2012
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The Positive Power of Negative Thinking
Roger E. Olson | December 12, 2012
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A Modest Proposal for an Ideal Social Order
Roger E. Olson | December 10, 2012
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Some Musings about Worship as Gift and Task
Roger E. Olson | December 01, 2012
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Interview with Frank Viola
Roger E. Olson | November 30, 2012
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When Did We Open the Pandora's Box of...
Roger E. Olson | November 28, 2012
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Merry idolatry season!
Roger E. Olson | November 24, 2012
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Further stirring the pot regarding "feminism"
Roger E. Olson | November 21, 2012
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A Movie Illustration of What's Wrong with Calvinism
Roger E. Olson | November 18, 2012
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A Christian Humanist Manifesto--Part 3 (Final)
Roger E. Olson | November 16, 2012
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A Christian Humanist Manifesto...Part 2
Roger E. Olson | November 15, 2012
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Is Open Theism a Type of Arminianism?
Roger E. Olson | November 10, 2012
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Proof of Heaven?
Roger E. Olson | November 08, 2012
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My List of "Approved Denominations"
Roger E. Olson | November 06, 2012
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Karl Barth the Arminian?
Roger E. Olson | November 04, 2012
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Some Random and Curmudgeonly Thoughts about October 31
Roger E. Olson | November 01, 2012
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Musings about Prayer: What It Is and Does
Roger E. Olson | October 26, 2012
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A Few Words about Oppression
Roger E. Olson | October 24, 2012
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Some questions for feminists from a sympathizer
Roger E. Olson | October 22, 2012
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Guest post by a Christian feminist about feminism
Roger E. Olson | October 19, 2012
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Thank God for heresy!
Roger E. Olson | October 18, 2012
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Why I like denominations
Roger E. Olson | October 11, 2012
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Reasons for Believing the Bible is God's Word
Roger E. Olson | October 09, 2012
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Some good novels that include theological themes
Roger E. Olson | October 04, 2012
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What do I mean when I say the Bible is "trustworthy?"
Roger E. Olson | October 02, 2012
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Whatever Happened to the "Evangelical Left?"
Roger E. Olson | September 30, 2012
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My Christianity Today article "The Bonds of Freedom"
Roger E. Olson | September 28, 2012
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Evangelical Inquisitions
Roger E. Olson | September 27, 2012
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A Neglected Theory of the Atonement?
Roger E. Olson | September 25, 2012
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Was Schleiermacher a liberal theologian? (If not, who...
Roger E. Olson | September 22, 2012
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Confessions of an Ecumenical, Evangelical, Baptist...
Roger E. Olson | September 20, 2012
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Who is a "real Christian?"
Roger E. Olson | September 18, 2012
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Thoughts about persecution and martyrdom
Roger E. Olson | September 14, 2012
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Leithart the Prophet to America?
Roger E. Olson | September 12, 2012
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Mostly for Baptists (Others Welcome to Listen In):...
Roger E. Olson | September 10, 2012
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If only I had a blog back then... Some thoughts about...
Roger E. Olson | September 09, 2012
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Who Is An "Evangelical Theologian?"
Roger E. Olson | September 06, 2012
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The Moon Is Down ("Rev. Moon," That is)
Roger E. Olson | September 05, 2012
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John Piper, God's Sovereignty, and Sin
Roger E. Olson | August 28, 2012
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Who Is the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53?
Roger E. Olson | August 22, 2012
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Does God always get his way?
Roger E. Olson | August 20, 2012
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Jerry Walls' youtube video series on Calvinism
Roger E. Olson | August 19, 2012
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Saying goodbye to a mentor and friend
Roger E. Olson | August 09, 2012
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What's wrong with panentheism?
Roger E. Olson | August 07, 2012
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Leithart's Defending Constantine Revisited
Roger E. Olson | August 03, 2012
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Why is Jonathan Edwards considered so great?
Roger E. Olson | July 31, 2012
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A Sermon: "Grace Works" Philippians 2:12-13
Roger E. Olson | July 29, 2012
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An Arminian (?) Sermon Illustration
Roger E. Olson | July 25, 2012
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"God, guns, and guts"
Roger E. Olson | July 22, 2012
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Preliminary Review of Defending Constantine
Roger E. Olson | July 20, 2012
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Spiritual Abuse
Roger E. Olson | July 15, 2012
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Why can't Southern Baptists just get along?
Roger E. Olson | July 09, 2012
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Evangelical Calvinism?
Roger E. Olson | July 05, 2012
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Needed: A Renewal of "Christian Humanism"
Roger E. Olson | July 02, 2012
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What I admire about Calvinists
Roger E. Olson | June 25, 2012
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Review of Carson's The Intolerance of Tolerance
Roger E. Olson | June 23, 2012
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The Way We Were
Roger E. Olson | June 18, 2012
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Some random thoughts on Father's Day
Roger E. Olson | June 17, 2012
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Conversion stories in recent fiction and film
Roger E. Olson | June 15, 2012
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Thoughts about the terms "heresy" and "heretic"
Roger E. Olson | June 13, 2012
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What does "inerrancy" actually do?
Roger E. Olson | June 09, 2012
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Prevenient Grace: Why It Matters
Roger E. Olson | June 07, 2012
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A Mysterious Topic (Part 2)
Roger E. Olson | June 02, 2012
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Why I still call myself a...Baptist
Roger E. Olson | June 01, 2012
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A Mysterious Topic: Part 1
Roger E. Olson | May 31, 2012
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Good article about Social Darwinism
Roger E. Olson | May 29, 2012
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And now...on the other hand...
Roger E. Olson | May 27, 2012
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Should a Christian Work for Government?
Roger E. Olson | May 21, 2012
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Guest post about Romney and the Religious Right
Roger E. Olson | May 18, 2012
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Can a Christian be a Social Darwinist?
Roger E. Olson | May 16, 2012
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How to Believe without Being Fundamentalist
Roger E. Olson | May 13, 2012
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"Fundamentalism" of the Left
Roger E. Olson | May 09, 2012
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Theological thoughts about "megachurches"
Roger E. Olson | May 07, 2012
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A Few Thoughts about Science and Theology
Roger E. Olson | May 05, 2012
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Recent responses to Against Calvinism
Roger E. Olson | May 01, 2012
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Christless Christianity in Movies?
Roger E. Olson | April 28, 2012
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Mention in New York Times (April 29)
Roger E. Olson | April 28, 2012
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Experimenting with formatting/fonts
Roger E. Olson | April 27, 2012
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Certainty Not. (A Guest Post)
Roger E. Olson | April 22, 2012
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John Piper and Pietism
Roger E. Olson | April 01, 2012
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A brief hiatus from discussing The Gospel as Center
Roger E. Olson | March 30, 2012
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Book recommendation about original sin
Roger E. Olson | March 28, 2012
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Part 2: Response to The Gospel as Center
Roger E. Olson | March 23, 2012
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Response to a Good Book about Purgatory
Roger E. Olson | March 19, 2012
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A question and request for suggestions
Roger E. Olson | March 16, 2012
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A feminist theologian explains the problem with men
Roger E. Olson | March 14, 2012
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Thoughts about Another Evangelical Controversy
Roger E. Olson | March 12, 2012
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Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue Part 3 (Final)
Roger E. Olson | March 06, 2012
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Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue Part 2
Roger E. Olson | March 05, 2012
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Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue
Roger E. Olson | March 05, 2012
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Truly caught on the horns of a theological dilemma
Roger E. Olson | March 02, 2012
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Why I like the Amish
Roger E. Olson | February 29, 2012
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Regarding Old Testament "Texts of Terror"
Roger E. Olson | February 27, 2012
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My "litmus test" for "true Christianity"
Roger E. Olson | February 25, 2012
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Thoughts about "Renewalism"
Roger E. Olson | February 23, 2012
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Rick Santorum, Barak Obama and theology
Roger E. Olson | February 21, 2012
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Some Lenten meditations for baptists
Roger E. Olson | February 20, 2012
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Who Is (or Might Be) an Arminian?
Roger E. Olson | February 18, 2012
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A report on some recent conversations about Calvinism
Roger E. Olson | February 14, 2012
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Is the "Prosperity Gospel" heresy?
Roger E. Olson | February 07, 2012
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Some thoughts about my conversation with Michael Horton
Roger E. Olson | February 04, 2012
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Finding roots and gems in old theologies
Roger E. Olson | February 02, 2012
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Where I have a problem with Calvinism
Roger E. Olson | February 01, 2012
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Quick report on Calvinst-Arminian dialogues
Roger E. Olson | January 31, 2012
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And now...to the other side (on issues of gender)
Roger E. Olson | January 29, 2012
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On tossing out the evangelical spectrum: Part 2
Roger E. Olson | January 27, 2012
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On tossing out the "right-middle-left" spectrum
Roger E. Olson | January 25, 2012
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About "judging God's morality"
Roger E. Olson | January 16, 2012
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Response to another misrepresentation of Arminianism
Roger E. Olson | January 14, 2012
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A personal testimony (some won't like)
Roger E. Olson | January 13, 2012
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A final comment (for now) about complementarianism
Roger E. Olson | January 12, 2012
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Truth, Authority and Roles
Roger E. Olson | January 10, 2012
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A challenge to "evangelical complementarians"
Roger E. Olson | January 08, 2012
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Religious identities geographically displayed
Roger E. Olson | January 06, 2012
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And now...on the other side (critique of extreme...
Roger E. Olson | January 04, 2012
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Was Arminius an inclusivist? Continuing a conversation
Roger E. Olson | January 02, 2012
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Some curmudgeonly and nostalgic thoughts about this...
Roger E. Olson | January 01, 2012
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Some thoughts about "Christian feminism"
Roger E. Olson | December 29, 2011
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And end (for now) to the "Atheismusstreit"
Roger E. Olson | December 22, 2011
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A comment about atheists' comments here
Roger E. Olson | December 21, 2011
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Atheism and nihilism
Roger E. Olson | December 20, 2011
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Thank God for atheists
Roger E. Olson | December 17, 2011
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A quick comment about discussion here
Roger E. Olson | December 14, 2011
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A good (relatively) new book about predestination
Roger E. Olson | December 12, 2011
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Quick post re: praying to Jesus?
Roger E. Olson | December 10, 2011
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Is there hierarchy in the Trinity? Part 3
Roger E. Olson | December 09, 2011
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Is there hierarchy in the Trinity part 2
Roger E. Olson | December 09, 2011
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Is there hierarchy in the Trinity? A series on a...
Roger E. Olson | December 08, 2011
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An issue of fairness: society's double standard
Roger E. Olson | December 07, 2011
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Are Restorationists (Churches of Christ/Independent...
Roger E. Olson | December 05, 2011
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"Lies, damned lies and statistics...."
Roger E. Olson | December 04, 2011
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Some weekend miscellaneous thoughts
Roger E. Olson | December 03, 2011
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More about direct revelations from God
Roger E. Olson | December 02, 2011
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Criteria for testing messages based on unmediated...
Roger E. Olson | November 30, 2011
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Bewildered by "seeing as"
Roger E. Olson | November 27, 2011
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Reflections on Black Friday
Roger E. Olson | November 25, 2011
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Thanksgiving
Roger E. Olson | November 24, 2011
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Who is a Christian? Some suggested criteria.
Roger E. Olson | November 20, 2011
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At last, and reluctantly, some guidelines for this blog
Roger E. Olson | November 18, 2011
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A parable (not an allegory)
Roger E. Olson | November 16, 2011
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What I mean that "I would not worship that god"
Roger E. Olson | November 14, 2011
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Our "founding fathers"--Christians or what?
Roger E. Olson | November 13, 2011
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Kant, thinking for oneself, etc. (continued)
Roger E. Olson | November 11, 2011
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Some thoughts about Kant's "What Is Enlightenment?"
Roger E. Olson | November 10, 2011
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J. I. Packer and Arminianism
Roger E. Olson | November 04, 2011
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Did God kill Jesus?
Roger E. Olson | November 02, 2011
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Another great evangelical intellectual passes away
Roger E. Olson | October 27, 2011
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Addendum to my post about advertising
Roger E. Olson | October 26, 2011
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Can a Christian work in the marketing field?
Roger E. Olson | October 25, 2011
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A complete change of subject: evangelical fiction
Roger E. Olson | October 23, 2011
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URL for my Ministry Direct (AG) interview
Roger E. Olson | October 23, 2011
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Regarding the love and justice of a God who...
Roger E. Olson | October 21, 2011
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Controversy over Calvinism brewing in the SBC
Roger E. Olson | October 20, 2011
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Announcement of Interview re: Against Calvinism
Roger E. Olson | October 18, 2011
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Romans 9
Roger E. Olson | October 18, 2011
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A report on a conversation with a Calvinist
Roger E. Olson | October 17, 2011
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What makes someone "evangelical?"
Roger E. Olson | October 12, 2011
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Some thoughts about conversations/debates between...
Roger E. Olson | October 07, 2011
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Brief interlude (in discussion of The Bible Made...
Roger E. Olson | September 29, 2011
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Addendum to my first review of Smith's The Bible Made...
Roger E. Olson | September 27, 2011
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First installment of review of Smith, The Bible Made...
Roger E. Olson | September 26, 2011
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Finally arrived--Against Calvinism!
Roger E. Olson | September 23, 2011
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Preview of my discussion of The Bible Made Impossible
Roger E. Olson | September 22, 2011
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Lesslie Newbigin--a guide for the perplexed
Roger E. Olson | September 21, 2011
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A final comment on Four Views on the Spectrum of...
Roger E. Olson | September 19, 2011
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Returning briefly to the subject of America as a family
Roger E. Olson | September 16, 2011
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Is hell part of the gospel? (Read all of this or don't...
Roger E. Olson | September 14, 2011
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Al Mohler stirs the Rob Bell pot some more
Roger E. Olson | September 12, 2011
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Going where angels fear to tread: Christianity and...
Roger E. Olson | September 10, 2011
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And now a curmudgeonly comment on church sign "ministry"
Roger E. Olson | September 10, 2011
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Should Christians sing hymns/songs they don't agree with?
Roger E. Olson | September 09, 2011
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Article on "centered" versus "bounded" sets
Roger E. Olson | September 08, 2011
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What I mean when I say I am "Against Calvinism"
Roger E. Olson | September 08, 2011
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Why "evangelical" is a label I won't surrender
Roger E. Olson | September 06, 2011
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Announcement of a new book on evangelicalism
Roger E. Olson | September 05, 2011
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Kierkegaard as evangelical--Part 3 (final)
Roger E. Olson | September 02, 2011
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Was Kierkegaard an evangelical--Part 2
Roger E. Olson | August 31, 2011
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Was Kierkegaard an evangelical? Part 1
Roger E. Olson | August 29, 2011
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Quick RIP for another hero: Mark Hatfield
Roger E. Olson | August 26, 2011
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Why "compassionate conservatism" isn't
Roger E. Olson | August 26, 2011
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Do we need an Arminian Defense League?
Roger E. Olson | August 24, 2011
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Quick comment re: new blog address & format
Roger E. Olson | August 19, 2011
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Something Protestants should borrow from Catholics
Roger E. Olson | August 15, 2011
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Brandon Morgan's response....
Roger E. Olson | August 08, 2011
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More thoughts on the Emerging Churches Movement
Roger E. Olson | August 07, 2011
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Politicians and prayer meetings
Roger E. Olson | August 06, 2011
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Folk religion and life after death part 2
Roger E. Olson | August 05, 2011
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A bigger problem than heresy: folk religion
Roger E. Olson | August 04, 2011
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How serious a heresy is universalism?
Roger E. Olson | July 30, 2011
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Blog problems
Roger E. Olson | July 29, 2011
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Re: Brandon Morgan's guest post & emergent...
Roger E. Olson | July 26, 2011
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Returning to the illegal immigration issue...
Roger E. Olson | July 21, 2011
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Off topic but important! Suggestions needed...
Roger E. Olson | July 20, 2011
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What is "theological liberalism?"
Roger E. Olson | July 14, 2011
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Thoughts on two recent movies...
Roger E. Olson | July 12, 2011
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A good new book responding to Bell's Love Wins
Roger E. Olson | July 07, 2011
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Another hallmark of neo-fundamentalism
Roger E. Olson | July 06, 2011
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Do people ever go from liberal to evangelical?
Roger E. Olson | July 03, 2011
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A good book by the Archbishop of Canterbury
Roger E. Olson | June 28, 2011
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Some thoughts about fathers on Fathers Day
Roger E. Olson | June 19, 2011
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Some more "real life" funny pulpit errors...
Roger E. Olson | June 12, 2011
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A break from all the seriousness...
Roger E. Olson | June 11, 2011
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A wonderful new book about Fundamentalism
Roger E. Olson | June 09, 2011
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My response to Lemke's "Middle Way"
Roger E. Olson | June 09, 2011
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Is "Left Behind" theology gnostic?
Roger E. Olson | June 04, 2011
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Al Mohler and I agree!
Roger E. Olson | June 03, 2011
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Conservative over reaction to the 1960s?
Roger E. Olson | May 31, 2011
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Further on the Oklahoma law...
Roger E. Olson | May 29, 2011
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Can there be too many orphanages?
Roger E. Olson | May 28, 2011
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Follow up to my post about Oklahoma HB1804
Roger E. Olson | May 28, 2011
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Why I can't give up the label "evangelical"
Roger E. Olson | May 23, 2011
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Media hysteria about the "end of the world"
Roger E. Olson | May 22, 2011
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Quote of the Day from Lord Acton
Roger E. Olson | May 19, 2011
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Does God always do "the wisest thing?"
Roger E. Olson | May 19, 2011
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Why I wrote my books
Roger E. Olson | May 15, 2011
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10 favorite theology books
Roger E. Olson | May 14, 2011
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Is God your "biggest fan?"
Roger E. Olson | May 10, 2011
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Premillennialism revisited
Roger E. Olson | May 09, 2011
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The Kingdom of God as critical principle
Roger E. Olson | May 07, 2011
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The difference, theologically, between...
Roger E. Olson | May 07, 2011
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Should Christians celebrate death?
Roger E. Olson | May 03, 2011
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Are Mormons Christians?
Roger E. Olson | May 01, 2011
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Athanasius and objective atonement
Roger E. Olson | April 29, 2011
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God's sovereignty by the rules
Roger E. Olson | April 29, 2011
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R.I.P. David Wilkerson
Roger E. Olson | April 28, 2011
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"Deep Church"
Roger E. Olson | April 27, 2011
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A P.S. regarding capital punishment
Roger E. Olson | April 25, 2011
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Church fires, holocausts, and God's intentions
Roger E. Olson | April 24, 2011
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Whatever became of the cross?
Roger E. Olson | April 22, 2011
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Capital punishment and slavery
Roger E. Olson | April 20, 2011
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Capital Punishment is sin
Roger E. Olson | April 17, 2011
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A good description of "postconservative...
Roger E. Olson | April 13, 2011
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What about Sola Scriptura? Is it a viable concept?
Roger E. Olson | April 10, 2011
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More about universalism
Roger E. Olson | April 10, 2011
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Rob Bell comes clean!!!
Roger E. Olson | April 08, 2011
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A good new book about Arminius
Roger E. Olson | April 08, 2011
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Further stirring of the pot....
Roger E. Olson | April 05, 2011
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The Word Made Fresh: A Call for a Renewal of the...
Roger E. Olson | April 01, 2011
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Essentials of Christianity
Roger E. Olson | April 01, 2011
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Great Comment re: evangelicals behaving badly
Roger E. Olson | March 30, 2011
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Division in the evangelical house
Roger E. Olson | March 29, 2011
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Billy Graham and inclusivism
Roger E. Olson | March 27, 2011
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The Promised Response to Bell's Love Wins
Roger E. Olson | March 25, 2011
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The New Fundamentalism
Roger E. Olson | March 24, 2011
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Walter Wink and Greg Boyd on the Problem of Evil
Roger E. Olson | March 22, 2011
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Evangelical AND Catholic?
Roger E. Olson | March 19, 2011
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"Reclaiming Pietism"
Roger E. Olson | March 16, 2011
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Another recommended book--by a leading Calvinist
Roger E. Olson | March 03, 2011
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My response to Rob Bell's promo video LOVE WINS
Roger E. Olson | March 02, 2011
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When criticism of fellow Christians is appropriate
Roger E. Olson | March 01, 2011
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When will we ever learn....?
Roger E. Olson | February 27, 2011
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A review of Kenneth Stewart's Ten Myths about...
Roger E. Olson | February 26, 2011
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Is it possible to believe a paradox?
Roger E. Olson | February 25, 2011
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A Youtube attack on Arminianism
Roger E. Olson | February 23, 2011
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New Book about Calvinism
Roger E. Olson | February 22, 2011
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American Christianity and Semi-Pelagianism
Roger E. Olson | February 20, 2011
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Do Arminians owe "The Church" an apology?
Roger E. Olson | February 18, 2011
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Report on a holocaust conference
Roger E. Olson | February 12, 2011
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Follow up regarding God changing the past
Roger E. Olson | February 11, 2011
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Can God change the past?
Roger E. Olson | February 10, 2011
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On a completely different note (about men's and...
Roger E. Olson | February 08, 2011
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Crossless Christianity?
Roger E. Olson | February 06, 2011
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About the atonement
Roger E. Olson | February 03, 2011
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Jonathan Edwards and John Piper on the atonement
Roger E. Olson | February 01, 2011
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One more good word misused (and then I'll quite...
Roger E. Olson | January 30, 2011
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Another good word that is losing all meaning
Roger E. Olson | January 28, 2011
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A brief pause to let my readers catch up...
Roger E. Olson | January 26, 2011
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Arminian theology is evangelical theology (long)
Roger E. Olson | January 24, 2011
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What the analogy is and is not
Roger E. Olson | January 20, 2011
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A thought experiment (about "cooperative...
Roger E. Olson | January 19, 2011
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Michael Horton responds
Roger E. Olson | January 18, 2011
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My response to Michael Horton's Christless...
Roger E. Olson | January 17, 2011
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Inclusivism, Arminianism and Liberalism
Roger E. Olson | January 14, 2011
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A word of encouragement to those attempting to post...
Roger E. Olson | January 11, 2011
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If you are having trouble posting a comment here....
Roger E. Olson | January 10, 2011
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Does anyone know what the Kingdom of God is?
Roger E. Olson | January 08, 2011
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American exceptionalism as idolatry?
Roger E. Olson | January 06, 2011
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Some thoughts on theological biases
Roger E. Olson | January 04, 2011
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An imaginary conversation between a Calvinist and a...
Roger E. Olson | January 02, 2011
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Another basic (pre-biblical) choice in theology
Roger E. Olson | December 29, 2010
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More about the basic choice in theology (voluntarism...
Roger E. Olson | December 26, 2010
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A much neglected basic choice in theology
Roger E. Olson | December 26, 2010
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Recommendation of Donald G. Bloesch's theology
Roger E. Olson | December 20, 2010
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A good analogy to the ULI of TULIP....
Roger E. Olson | December 17, 2010
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"Evangelicalism"--what is that?
Roger E. Olson | December 16, 2010
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Is there an "Arminocalvinist spectrum?"
Roger E. Olson | December 13, 2010
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Calvinism leads to universalism...
Roger E. Olson | December 10, 2010
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My interview at Assembly of God HQ
Roger E. Olson | December 07, 2010
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My encounter with a fine, young, Calvinist Christian...
Roger E. Olson | December 05, 2010
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This is not my father's Pentecostalism!
Roger E. Olson | December 03, 2010
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Arminianism is God-centered theology
Roger E. Olson | November 28, 2010
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A good example of what I was talking about...
Roger E. Olson | November 28, 2010
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Can a person be both Catholic and evangelical?
Roger E. Olson | November 27, 2010
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God's sovereignty in the crucifixion of Jesus
Roger E. Olson | November 25, 2010
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Being a man is okay (if its the best you can do).
Roger E. Olson | November 25, 2010
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November 22, 1963
Roger E. Olson | November 22, 2010
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Reclaiming Pietism Part 5 (Final)
Roger E. Olson | November 22, 2010
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Reclaiming Pietism Part 4
Roger E. Olson | November 19, 2010
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Reclaiming Pietism Part 3
Roger E. Olson | November 17, 2010
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Comments on the Barna survey report "Is there a...
Roger E. Olson | November 17, 2010
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Reclaiming Pietism Part 2
Roger E. Olson | November 15, 2010
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God, America and wealth redistribution
Roger E. Olson | November 08, 2010
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N. T. Wright and Justification
Roger E. Olson | November 07, 2010
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N. T. Wright and the New Perspective on Paul
Roger E. Olson | November 05, 2010
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God will judge us
Roger E. Olson | November 03, 2010
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Trends in theology and religious studies
Roger E. Olson | October 31, 2010
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Where have all the (theological) giants gone?
Roger E. Olson | October 29, 2010
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Who is an "evangelical theologian?"
Roger E. Olson | October 27, 2010
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Liberation theology
Roger E. Olson | October 25, 2010
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Liberal theology
Roger E. Olson | October 23, 2010
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Those pesky "shelf doctrines"
Roger E. Olson | October 21, 2010
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A word about that awful word "cult"
Roger E. Olson | October 20, 2010
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Deconstructing "evangelicalism"
Roger E. Olson | October 18, 2010
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Seventh-day Adventism and Arminian, evangelical...
Roger E. Olson | October 16, 2010
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What Calvinism I oppose and why
Roger E. Olson | October 13, 2010
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Forthcoming book on evangelicalism
Roger E. Olson | October 12, 2010
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Defining "fundamentalism"
Roger E. Olson | October 10, 2010
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Donald Bloesch, Arminianism and open theism
Roger E. Olson | October 07, 2010
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God welcomes another evangelical giant into glory!
Roger E. Olson | October 06, 2010
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God's "wasteful scatteration of grace"
Roger E. Olson | October 05, 2010
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Al Mohler, evolution and other Christians
Roger E. Olson | October 05, 2010
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Me and Al Mohler
Roger E. Olson | October 04, 2010
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Another fatal flaw in Calvinism
Roger E. Olson | October 04, 2010
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The first fatal flaw in the Calvinist system revisited
Roger E. Olson | October 02, 2010
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Theological flaws and fatal flaws
Roger E. Olson | September 29, 2010
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A good new book on Reformed theology
Roger E. Olson | September 22, 2010
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Two opposite forces pulling evangelicals (and others)...
Roger E. Olson | September 20, 2010
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A watershed among evangelicals?
Roger E. Olson | September 17, 2010
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Why I am a premillennialist (and you should be, too)
Roger E. Olson | September 14, 2010
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Another evangelical hero passes to glory
Roger E. Olson | September 13, 2010
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When did "social justice" become a bad word?
Roger E. Olson | September 12, 2010
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A new church just for academics?
Roger E. Olson | September 09, 2010
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Protestant purgatory?
Roger E. Olson | September 07, 2010
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Arminian teaching regarding original sin
Roger E. Olson | September 05, 2010
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Stephen Hawking on the world without God
Roger E. Olson | September 03, 2010
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Quick response re: Arminian doctrine of total depravity
Roger E. Olson | September 03, 2010
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A good, new, non-Arminian, Arminian book!
Roger E. Olson | September 02, 2010
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God and evil
Roger E. Olson | September 01, 2010
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God's self-limitations
Roger E. Olson | August 30, 2010
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Why I am not an open theist
Roger E. Olson | August 29, 2010
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Evangelicalism and postmodernism
Roger E. Olson | August 27, 2010
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A quick question for my Calvinist interlocutors
Roger E. Olson | August 26, 2010
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Why open theism doesn't even matter (very much)
Roger E. Olson | August 25, 2010
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A brief respite from writing...
Roger E. Olson | August 24, 2010
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Open theism: a test case for evangelicals
Roger E. Olson | August 23, 2010
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One more quick sidebar about clarifying Arminianism
Roger E. Olson | August 22, 2010
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coming up next: open theism
Roger E. Olson | August 21, 2010
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How do I know the Bible is God's Word?
Roger E. Olson | August 20, 2010
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Why inerrancy doesn't matter
Roger E. Olson | August 19, 2010
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Unconditional election & universal atonement
Roger E. Olson | August 18, 2010
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Is there one evangelicalism?
Roger E. Olson | August 14, 2010
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Diversity of Calvinism/Reformed theology
Roger E. Olson | August 13, 2010
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Two new books about evangelicalism
Roger E. Olson | August 12, 2010
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A word about the parable...
Roger E. Olson | August 11, 2010
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A modest proposal to end the gay marriage debate
Roger E. Olson | August 10, 2010
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Grace and free will: a parable
Roger E. Olson | August 09, 2010
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Changing the subject: church music
Roger E. Olson | August 07, 2010
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The problem with Calvinism is...
Roger E. Olson | August 06, 2010
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What is an Arminian?
Roger E. Olson | August 05, 2010
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And now a word about...Arminianism
Roger E. Olson | August 04, 2010
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A matter of integrity?
Roger E. Olson | August 03, 2010
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Why I care about evangelicalism
Roger E. Olson | August 02, 2010
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Addendum to my first post about evangelicalism
Roger E. Olson | July 31, 2010
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My first foray into blogging! What is...
Roger E. Olson | July 29, 2010
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