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Black & Tan: A collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America is unavailable, but you can change that!

If we want to understand contemporary American culture wars, we must first come to grips with the culture wars of the nineteenth century. That our nation did not remove slavery in a biblical way helps explain many of our contemporary social evils. But who is qualified to talk about such things? What is a biblical view of racism? Why do the biblical answers to such questions so infuriate the...

faithful Christians now. And we cannot be faithful Christians now if we try to build the kingdom of God on shaky or rotten foundations. The new wine of the gospel will necessarily burst the Enlightenment wineskins. And yet, most contemporary Christians have turned their wine into grape juice in order to prevent the wineskins from coming to such an unhappy end. The culture wars we are currently engaged in are real and consequential, but those on the “traditional values” side of the conflict are consistently
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