Alanbean

LATEST ARTICLES ( 628 )

• 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

• So, If Curtis Flowers Isn’t Guilty, Who Is?

  

  If you’ve listened to In the Dark or watched Wrong Man on the Starz channel, you either came away convinced that Curtis Flowers didn’t kill four people in cold... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Mississippi Smoldering: Tom Mangold Reports on the Curtis Flowers Case in 2009

  

  In Britain, a prosecutor caught red-handed like that would be publicly reprimanded, and removed. And after three appeals and two mistrials the state would... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Curtis Flowers: the Whole World is Watching!

  

  Once national and regional media personalities agree that a serious injustice is in the works, the legal process changes, often dramatically.  I have seen this... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The New Yorker Celebrates Flowers Podcast

  Podcasts, especially the true crime variety, are coming into their own. And, in the opinion of this New Yorker review, In the Dark’s in-depth investigation of... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Man Who Put Curtis Flowers in Prison Just Set Him Free.

  Episode 6 of the In the Dark podcast is stunning. Staggering. The only piece of direct evidence DA Doug Evans has on Curtis Flowers comes from Odell “Cookie”... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• How Dr. King Called Me to Preach

  

  Fifty years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down at the Loraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. Everyone was shocked, but no one was surprised.... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• In the Dark: Peabody Winning Podcast Takes Deep Dive into the Flowers Case

  

  The In the Dark crew spent a full year on the ground in central Mississippi and they talked, at length and in depth, to everyone associated with the story.   An... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• “Come Sunday” Confronts the American Fascination with Hell

  

  Come Sunday gets the theological focus right.  A God who would consign the unsaved to eternal punishment, even if they had never heard the gospel, comes off... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Review of A.N. Wilson’s “Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker”

  

  Darwin's theorizing has always been more popular with public intellectuals eager to dispense with Christianity than it has been with the scientific community. Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Review of A.N. Wilson’s “Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker”

  

  Darwin's theorizing has always been more popular with public intellectuals eager to dispense with Christianity than it has been with the scientific community. Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Custodians of a Lost America: The Power and Poverty of White Evangelicalism

  

  By Alan BeanEver since the 2016 election, America’s white evangelicals have been savaged by liberals and moderates who can’t believe that Donald Trump is... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Rolling My Own Religion

  

  If John Wesley felt his heart "strangely warmed" at Aldersgate, and if Fanny J. Crosby had visions of rapture bursting on her sight, I was happy for them; but... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Why I Was Baptized; (and Why I Wasn’t)

  

  If John Wesley felt his heart "strangely warmed" at Aldersgate, and if Fanny J. Crosby had visions of rapture bursting on her sight, I was happy for them; but... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Bible Vs Gospel: Why the CBF Divides Over GLBTQ Inclusion

  

  By Alan BeanThe Cooperative Baptist Fellowship came to life in the early 1990s, a traumatized gaggle of southerners disowned by Mother Church (also known as... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Bible Vs Gospel: Why the CBF Divides Over GLBTQ Inclusion

  

  By Alan BeanThe Cooperative Baptist Fellowship came to life in the early 1990s, a traumatized gaggle of southerners disowned by Mother Church (also known as... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• My Father, the Born Again Socialist

  The recent celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day has me thinking about Tommy Douglas, my father’s pastor and Sunday school teacher. Douglas is the MLK of... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• My Year in Baptist Heaven: BLTS Remembered

  

  Dr. Sam was not amused.  "Re-write this Mr. Bean," he said as he handed my paper back, "and, this time, there's only one Isaiah." Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Postcards from My Maladjusted Youth

  

  Alan Bean in 1971I do not remember my high school years with fondness.  My parents didn’t let on at the time, but they worried about me.  Apart from playing... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• How Prairie Politics Shaped My Parent’s Religion

  

  At my fortieth high school reunion a former classmate remembered me as a Bible-thumper.  Frankly, I was shocked by this characterization.  I can’t recall talkin... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2018 DEBATE, SOCIETY