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Brandon Daniel-Hughes

A Bible “Translation” to Save America

WARNING! DANGER! POISON! Such words should be stamped on the cover of the modern translations of the bible. According to the Conservative Bible Project, modern translations like the NIV are saturated with corrupting liberal bias. These translations are dangerous because they promote a socialist agenda, embrace gender equality, and present

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Why I Care Very Little that my Minister is a Heretic

Well, he is. There’s no denying it if you heard his sermon on Pentecost Sunday. He’s a confirmed Modalist, and I have very little doubt that most everyone reading this blog is as well. And I don’t care at all about your heresy either. Trigger Warning: there is more than

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Brandon Daniel-Hughes

Apologetic Patriotism

Every Fourth of July I end up thinking about this topic, knowing full well that lots of Evangelical churches across America are reveling in “Old Glory” and hosting “God and Country” Saturday night revivals, even as Liberal churches in the same towns cringe and argue about whether it is appropriate

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Churches Aren’t Corporations and Christians Aren’t Customers

OK, full disclosure; this title is a rip-off of a Rebecca Schuman piece that ran last month on Slate.com. It’s a great editorial entitled “College Students are not Customers: a Political Shorthand that Needs to Die.” So your first task is to pause and read it, and try not to

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Summer Series 2015

May is my busiest month as I work to put in our 900 square foot garden and finish reading the last stack of term papers, and as it draws to a close all of my routines change. I move away from teaching and ramp up my reading and writing, I

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Looking for Converts, Not Heretics

I don’t much listen to music when I run or work in the garden; instead my iPod is full of sports, science and politics podcasts. The sports shows I subscribe to are completely partisan and lean toward all things Boston, but I much prefer an ideological mix when it comes

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Lingering Over Lent

We’ve had quite a winter here in Montreal. My snow-blower has been getting more than its usual workout. So we’ve been looking forward to the beginning of spring this year even more than normal. I’m not sure anyone really looks forward to Lent. Advent season is a preparation for Christmas,

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Brandon Daniel-Hughes

The Problem with Pigeonholes

Sorry folks, but you’ll have to tolerate some philosophical table setting before getting to the LiberalEvangelcial point and payoff. So many of our day-to-day duties involve sorting. Sorting is one of the fundamental ways that we take the relative chaos that the universe presents us and work it into a

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A Great Winter Read: Steven Miller’s The Age of Evangelicalism

I read a lot of books. Most professors can make similar statements because we read for our jobs as well as for fun. I read anthropology and philosophy, religion and science, far too much Sci-fi and lately The Adventures of Captain Underpants. (Anyone with an eight-year-old boy will know that

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Crass Cartoon as a Capital Offense? Not in my classroom.

At least twelve people are dead in Paris because two brothers (maybe others as well) were so offended at a crass cartoon, lampooning their religion, that they decided execute some of their fellow countrymen. Reactions from politicians and pundits alike have been swift, and responses will continue to trickle in

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Brandon Daniel-Hughes

Multiculturalism…Get Used to It, Because it Ain’t Going Away

To paraphrase myself, and why not it’s my blog, “Just as increased urbanization is likely in the coming years, we should expect our little pockets of homogeneity to be increasingly disrupted as we encounter and live beside more folks who are different from us. Perhaps no issue is more pressing

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Liberal Evangelicals and Secularism

In Memoriam <>The Political Career of Pauline Marois 1981-2014 OK, so I’m not above a bit of shadenfreude. But did she ever deserve to lose! Even now, more than five months after her defeat, Montrealers are still giddy. “The air even feels different,” a former student told me when I

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