by Roger Olson | May 16, 2017 | Opinion
I have heard and read many references to white privilege and male privilege over the past several years. These seem to be the only types of privilege that socially progressive people talk about and disparage. Although I sometimes think these phrases are overused, I...
by Roger Olson | Apr 11, 2017 | Opinion
A problem with contemporary American society is that most people tend only to listen to people with whom they already agree. The result is almost complete ignorance of the perspectives of others. The result is a society that is no longer a community; we have no shared...
by Roger Olson | Feb 14, 2017 | Opinion
I find one of the greatest ironies of contemporary American Christianity here: What usually is called “conservative Christianity” is really a form of liberal Christianity. So, as usual, it is important to define our terms. Here, by “conservative...
by Roger Olson | Jan 26, 2017 | Opinion
This year – 2017 – many Protestant Christians around the world will be celebrating what they think is the 500th anniversary of the birth of Protestantism. Many consider Oct. 31 as “Reformation Day” and celebrate it as the annual anniversary of...
by Roger Olson | Dec 19, 2016 | Opinion
It took a newspaper’s syndicated cartoon (“Non Sequitur”) to inform me that the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language now recognizes “post-truth” as a real English word. It means “an adjective defined as relating to or denoting...
