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To See or Not to See The Shack Movie: That is the Question

March 3, 2017 by Randal

A decade after the book was published, the long-awaited Hollywood adaptation of The Shack has been released in theaters. So should you see it? Hey, you’ll need to make up your own mind. Don’t expect me to tell you how to spend your movie dollars. All I want to do here is give you the best […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: idolatry, The Shack, Tim Challies

Move Over Jesus, Here Comes Donald Trump

September 30, 2016 by Randal

Some of Trump’s evangelical Christian voters are not only crude and offensive, they’re now verging into idolatrous worship. Seriously…  

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Donald Trump, evangelicalism, idolatry

Did Jesus ever have an idol?

December 7, 2011 by Randal

My colleague Jerry wrote that I have “some wrong ideas about God, and by my definition, that is idolatrous.” Uh oh. Fortunately then Jerry added “But I’m sure I have some wrong ideas about God too (though, of course, I don’t know what they are right now), and therefore also idolatrous.” Well Jerry, you’d know […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: God, idolatry, Jerry Shepherd, omniscience, theology

Can Christians call God ‘Mother’?

October 2, 2011 by Randal

* This is a repost of an article which appeared on The Christian Post in September, 2009. Much of the controversy that has been stirred up by William Paul Young’s bestselling novel The Shack relates to the depiction of God the Father as an African American woman and the Spirit as an Asian woman. With […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: feminism, Goddess worship, idolatry, metaphor, The Shack, William Paul Young

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