Deep Thoughts

A blog by Aaron D. Taylor and Friends

Monday, May 06, 2013

Glenn Beck's Confusing World of Saudi Conspiracy Theories

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While Glenn Beck often accuses anyone that disagrees with him of being a  "relativist" or "subjectivist", the irony is ...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Why (American) Evangelicals are Resistant to Climate Change

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By Aaron Taylor First, a disclaimer. Not all evangelicals are resistant to climate change. The root word of "evangelical" is...
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Saturday, March 09, 2013

Book Review: Muslim, Christian and Jew

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Review by Aaron D. Taylor On the cover of Dr. David Liepert’s book, Muslim, Christian and Jew , renowned religion scholar Karen Armstrong ...
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Friday, March 08, 2013

The NRA, Big Government, Israel, and Jesus

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By Carl Medearis Cross-Posted from www.carlmedearis.com I like that title. I confuse people. Sometimes I say that’s my spiritual gift ...
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Thursday, March 07, 2013

A Prison Letter from a Modern Day Apostle Paul

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Below is a letter from a man named Jose Dilson. I met him briefly while I was living in Senegal. He's been imprisoned under false accus...
Saturday, March 02, 2013

Django Jesus, Evangelical Peacemakers, And what I've (maybe) been doing wrong all these years

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By Aaron Taylor Yet once again, the item that was in my head has turned out to be starkly different than what I've chosen to write do...
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Monday, February 18, 2013

I may be an idiot for putting this out there, but.....

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By Aaron Taylor A few years back, I read an article by a former Bible School professor of mine, a messianic Jew. In the article, the man ...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Yes, our freedoms are under attack....but not in the way you might think

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I don’t believe that Democrats are out to steal our guns and impose a fascist dictatorship. Neither do I believe that the Louise Giglio i...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Book Review: Keeping the Feast by Milton Basher-Cunningham

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Review by Dan Sidey Keeping the Feast is a truly multi-faceted feast. It's about Communion, food, cooking, community, kinship across...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

My interview on the Converging Zone

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I thought I'd share with you an interview I did with Robert Ricciardelli from the Converging Zone. Robert's an interesting guy, and ...
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Friday, October 26, 2012

An Adoptive Father Thinking about Moses

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I was soooo looking forward to writing about Monday’s foreign policy debate. I had it all in my head: how intervention in Libya led to t...
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Friday, October 12, 2012

A (possibly) Significant Development in Muslim-Christian Relations

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A (possibly) significant development in Muslim-Christian-relations is being spear-headed by the Islamic Scholars of North America (ISNA). ...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Faith, She Leads Me

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By Dan Sidey Nearly every time I get together with my father-in-law we have talks about religion. We're both faithful believers tru...
Friday, August 24, 2012

A Strange Look

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A few months ago I noticed some friends driving through the neighborhood with a strangely-out-of-place look on their face. We've all ...
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Saturday, August 18, 2012

In Defense of the Southern Poverty Law Center

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When I was in Junior High, I attended a private Christian school where my youth pastor used to show us videos of Christians in public s...
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Monday, August 06, 2012

Avoiding the R-Word

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When Mitt Romney stood before a group of supporters in Israel and declared that cultural superiority and divine providence are the reason...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

The Triumph of Hypothetical Evil over Real Evil

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There’s a famous maxim that says, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Though Wikipedia says...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Towards an Evangelical Peace Movement

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Billy Sunday was the most famous evangelist in America during the first two decades of the 20th century. Without the aid of loudspeaker...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Chased with a Vow

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By Dan Sidey About the same time we began forming an intentional community our third son was born with some hard of hearing issues. A...
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Monday, May 28, 2012

The Apostle Paul was not a misogynist homophobe!

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Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “To be great is to be misunderstood.” If Emerson was right, then the Apostle Paul might be one of the gr...
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