Alanbean

LATEST ARTICLES ( 628 )

• Friends of Justice Featured in the Canadian Press

  

  This story appeared in major Canadian newspapers in 2007, shortly after the massive rally in Jena, Louisiana. Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Bill Leonard: Double-edged Grace: Up Close (and at a Distance)

  

  Over the years I’ve learned a lot from Appalachian serpent-handlers. They are what we call “hot gospellers” who “get saved hard,” the ultimate biblical... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• 5 Reasons Why Reparations Talk Makes White People Crazy

  

  “A man with the Bible in one hand and a whip in the other will use the Bible to justify the whip.” Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Why There Will Be No Trial Seven for Curtis Flowers

  

  There will be no seventh trial for Curtis Flowers.If the Supreme Court of the United States doesn’t vacate the 2010 conviction in the Flowers case, jaws across... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• 5 Reasons Why Reparations Talk Makes White People Crazy

  

  fter years of conversations with ordinary Americans, Brooks now seconds the motion laid out five years ago by Ta-Nehisi Coates in an essay in the Atlantic. If... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Why Dale Moody Blew up His Career

  

  I am passing along my latest opinion piece for Baptist News Global.Dale Moody was a professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary between 1947 and... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Non-unanimous Juries, Rampant Corruption and the Fight to Bring Jace Washington...

  

  The level of misconduct involved in the mishandling of Jace’s case is egregious and abhorrent, a graphic illustration of the endemic discrimination by which... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Why I Love the Apostles’ Creed

  

  progressive Christians, perhaps for the first time, leaped to the president's defense, eager to broadcast their disdain for a religious relic they no longer... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• If Jesus is Such an Embarrassment, Why Does Jerry Jr. Persist in Calling...

  

  Asked to explain his statement that there was literally nothing Donald Trump could do to lose his support, Jerry Falwell Jr. shared his twisted theory of two... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Exciting Times for Friends of Justice

  

  This has been a great week for Friends of Justice! Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2019 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• When Churches Fail: the Abiding Challenge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer has emerged as a hero for both evangelical and liberal Christians.  But he wasn’t interested in being a hero or a martyr or a saint; he was... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Silence in the Face of Evil: Learning from Elisabeth Schmitz.

  

  "Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." Although these words have... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Ed Young Calls Democratic Party “a Godless Religion”

  

  The devout and the religiously indifferent must learn to work together or nothing of lasting significance will be accomplished. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Three Disturbing Books

  

  All three books emphasize the pervading sense of white superiority common to our ancestors in the white world, and following their descendants into the “New... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• C.S. Lewis and the Kavanaugh Nomination

  

  After watching last week's hearing, which of the two, Blesey Ford or Kavanaugh, strikes you as the most reliable?  I mean, which is the most truthful? Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Jimmy Carter’s Third-Way Religion

  

  Ultimately, Jimmy proved to be too good for either the White House or his beloved Southern Baptist Convention.  But he was never too good; just a little better... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• My Close Encounter with Southern Baptist Hell

  

  While I was a student in the late 1970s, the subject of hell never came up in class unless Bill Leonard was discussing Jonathan Edwards’ infamous sermon,... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Dancing with Demagogues: How Preachers, Presidents and Prosecutors Manipulate...

  

  When you are addicted to pretty lies, you will do anything for the next fix. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Curtis Flowers After “In the Dark”

  

  From the Jackson Clarion-Ledger to the New Yorker, to Mother Jones, to the Nation, to the National Review and the New York Times, everybody’s talking about... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Goblins and Orcs of Unbelief: My University Years

  

  University should be about learning how much you don’t know.  That was certainly my experience. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY