by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 27, 2026 | Cancel Culture, Gay Marriage, Gender identity, Gospel, Homophobic, Homosexuality, Human Rights Violations, Identity Politics, Immorality, LGBTQA+, Liberal Left, Salvation
It is sometimes difficult to know whether we live in confusing times or interesting times. Perhaps it is a little of both. But either and both often seem hard to live with. Over the past few years, a new question has become a source of considerable cultural...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 6, 2026 | Agnostic, Atheism, Bible, Bible reliable, Bill Gothard / IBLP, Contradictions, deconstruction, Divided Families, Liberal Left, Progressives
In the late 1990s, I (Don) was asked by a professor at a local community college to teach a class on Christianity in their Religion 101 course. I agreed and spent nearly an hour explaining the Bible’s reliability and describing evidence for the existence of...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 19, 2026 | Biblical Ethics, Charter Schools, Christian Nationalism, Church, Church and State, Culture War, Deception, Liberal Left, Liberal Theology, Liberalism
In the daily course of answering questions by email, phone, and in person, related to matters of faith, we invariably have to begin with the reminder that: A text, without a context, is a pretext1“Errors in Understanding Biblical Texts” by Don and Joy Veinot Sometimes...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 16, 2025 | Biblical Ethics, Cancel Culture, Child Sacrifice, context, Human Rights Violations, Infanticide, Liberal Left, Life Begins at Conception, Morality, Progressives
As students of history, we enjoy reading books, articles, poems, speeches, and at times technical works, in their historical/grammatical context. This is true of the Bible as well as other historical works. Doing so gives us a genuine insight into the lives and...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 18, 2025 | Apologetics, Atheist, Charlie Kirk, Critical Race Theory, CRT, Evangelical, Family, Father, Free Speech, Freedom, Gospel, Liberal Left, Marxism, Mormon, Progressives, Worldview
Certain “larger than life” events in American history made an indelible impression on those who were living at the time. The Pearl Harbor attack, the assassination of JFK, the evil attacks on September 11, 2001, now simply known as 9/11. Now there is a new one,...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 5, 2025 | Biblical Justice, Christ, Culture and Society, Homosexuality, Immorality, Jesus, Jesus as King, LGBTQA+, Liberal Left, Liberalism, Progressives, Transgender, Woke
The question of what God is like is not really a new one. Is He cruel or is He kind? Is He distant or intimately involved in our lives? When we were new believers, we read a book that we found quite helpful on this topic, Your God Is Too Small by J.B. Phillips. In...
