Joel Looper

Dec 4, 2024 | firstthings.com | Joel Looper

In 1906, the German New Testament studies guild suffered a rude shock. The cause was Albert Schweitzer’s academic blockbuster The Quest of the Historical Jesus, in which the Bible-scholar-turned-humanitarian tours the sub-discipline’s history, from Hermann Samuel Reimarus’s first forays into historical criticism to Ernest Renan’s Aryanized Jesus.

Sep 9, 2024 | theunpopulist.net | Joel Looper |itarian Crackdown

El Salvador became the bloodiest country in the Western world in 2015. Its murder rate eclipsed 100 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants, a figure more characteristic of a failed state than a modern democracy. Not since the mid-1990s had the country been this violent, and the principal reason for the spike was the gangs, namely, MS-13, originally founded in the U.S. in the 1980s by Salvadoran immigrants, and Barrio 18, or 18th Street, its equally barbaric rival.

Aug 27, 2024 | eerdword.com | Joel Looper

Joel Looper offers his fellow evangelicals a theological rationale for resisting Christian nationalism. Though evangelicals emphasize fidelity to the gospel above all else, many have fallen in step with “a different gospel” of Christian nationalism. Analyzing Scripture, church history, and current events in the United States and Russia, Joel Looper argues that the nation has supplanted the church as evangelicals’ primary allegiance.

Aug 26, 2024 | audible.com | Joel Looper |Freida McFadden |Amy Tintera |Andy Weir

Christian Nationalism and the Crisis of Evangelical Identity Narrated by: Trevor Thompson Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.

Jun 27, 2024 | firstthings.com | Joel Looper

Begotten or Made? by oliver o’donovandavenant press, 143 pages, $26.95 Think about it,” my friend said, his voice tinged with aggression. “Why did you become a man? Because you didn’t have any other option socially. Wouldn’t it be better if kids didn’t have such constraints on who they could be?” My friend (let’s call him Jim) had a preteen with no history of gender dysphoria who had recently come out as nonbinary. Jim was supportive, even enthusiastic.