Alanbean

LATEST ARTICLES ( 628 )

• Marching in the Face of Fear: Tulia’s Never Again Rally Remembered

  

  I have probably never been as scared as I was when three hundred people marched from a park in Tulia, Texas to the courthouse at the heart of town. Forty-seven... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2020 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Southern Baptist Race War

  

  Al Mohler is the canary in the SBC coal mine, and he has suddenly fallen silent. Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2020 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• That All Shall Be Saved: H. Stephen Shoemaker on Universal Salvation, Heaven...

  

  H. Stephen Shoemaker is pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Statesville, North Carolina. He served previously as pastor of Myers Park Baptist in Charlotte,... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2020 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Tara Reade Isn’t Lying (but That Doesn’t Mean She’s Telling the Truth)

  

  Unfortunately, false memories are far more easily created than most of us imagine and, once lodged in the mind, begin to feel more “real” than actual memory. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2020 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Resurrection Ain’t Natural

  

  Jesus was dead and buried; his life was finished and done with.  No rhythm of nature, no innate capacity for humanness, could return him from the grave. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2020 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Pestilence That Stalks in Darkness: God and Covid-19

  

  Is COVID-19 God’s punishment for gay marriage and abortion? Perry Stone, a Cleveland televangelist thinks so. Or maybe, with Billy Prewitt, author of The... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2020 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• This is the Perfect Time to Make Curtis Flowers a Free Man

  Fitch must decide whether she wants to walk away from this mess now (when her decision will be buried on page B16) or wait until the pandemic is old news and... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2020 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Beyond Heaven and Hell: Preaching Hope to Children of Dust

  

  One day, I tell my patients, God is going to straighten everything that’s crooked, mend everything that’s broken, heal everything that’s sick and wipe every tea... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2020 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• How Rehab Saved My Life

  

  Being an alcoholic was the best thing that ever happened to me.  It humbled me immensely.  I was an arrogant pseudo-intellectual prick, and being on the verge o... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2020 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Last Call for Aging White Evangelicals

  

  Like the biblical Samson, Trump will eventually bring the entire edifice of American conservatism crashing down around him. Some species of evangelical... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2020 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Why Doug Evans Can’t Admit He Was Wrong About Curtis Flowers

  

  Doug Evans and the white residents of Winona will never admit defeat.  In their eyes, Curtis will always be guilty. Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Curtis Flowers is Headed Home!

  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/us/curtis-flowers-murder.htmlI will be writing more about this amazing story a bit later, but this NYT treatment will fill... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• How Glenn Hinson Saved God

  

  Wide is the gate, and broad the way, that leadeth to white Christian nationalism, and many there be that enter therein. Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• My Gut Tells Me Trump Won’t Be the Republican Nominee in 2020

  

  My head still says Trump will be the nominee; but my gut is telling a very different story. Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• My Take on the Amber Guyger Trial

  

  Amber Guyger, and every other criminal offender, should be viewed as both violator and victim.  We must always shoulder a shared responsibility for our place... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• What Will Doug Evans Do with Curtis Flowers?

  

  Doug Evans can't drop the charges in this case without signalling that he was wrong about Curtis all along.  That would be political suicide and Evans knows it. Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• What Drives Gun Violence, and What Can Stop It?

  

  The recent spate of gun violence has produced a gusher of troubling questions.  Leading the pack is the extent to which the responsibility for mass shootings ca... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Ground Hog Day in Winona: Who Will Break the Spell?

  

  Doug Evans, Curtis Flowers and Winona, Mississippi are stuck in Groundhog Day.  Just when you think the story is heading for resolution, it starts all over... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Why the Supreme Court Sided with Curtis Flowers (and Where We Go from Here)

  

  No one who listened to season two of In the Dark from beginning to end would want to have anything to do with this prosecution. Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Is the Bible God a Loving God?

  

  Let us frankly acknowledge that the word “evangelical” has become a working synonym for the religious right and is thus beyond salvaging.I have given up on the... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY