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Jayden Daniels Gets Roasted

Jayden Daniels is one of the best football players ever to come out of LSU. He won a Heisman, was picked second overall in the 2024 draft, and was absolutely electrifying to watch as a player. He was as winsome as they come both on and off the field. The total package. Which it is why it is so mystifying that he recently had his lawyer send a cease and desist letter to LSU, instructing his alma…

Get Married, Have Babies, Join a Church – CBMW Podcast

I had a great conversation with Sean DeMars about his outstanding little book titled Get Married, Have Babies, Join a Church. You can watch the interview at the YouTube link below, or you can listen at Spotify or Apple podcasts below that.

Mere Complementarianism on “The Becket Cook Show”

I had a great conversation with Becket Cook about Mere Complementarianism on his podcast The Becket Cook Show. He was really interested in how egalitarian interpretation of the Bible relates to LGBTQ+ affirmation. You can watch the YouTube version or listen to the Spotify podcast linked below. You can buy the book at Amazon here. Thanks, Becket!

Men in the WNBA? – CBMW Podcast

On this episode, Jonathan Swan, Colin Smothers, and I discuss the controversy surrounding Sophie Cunningham and transgender activists pushing for biological men to be able to play in the WNBA. The YouTube video of our discussion is below along with Spotify version below that.

I Will Glorify My Name – John 12:27-50

In his little book Reflections on the Psalms, C. S. Lewis calls it a “miserable idea that God should in any sense need, or crave for, our worship like a vain woman wanting compliments, or a vain author presenting his new books to people who never met or heard of him.” Lewis says that such a being would be an “absurd Deity”—one so needy and vain that he would be more worth our contempt and disdain…

Interview with Fred Zaspel about 𝑀𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑚

I really appreciate Fred Zaspel s work at the website Books at a Glance, which publishes loads of reviews of important books on theology and Bible. Fred also sometimes interviews authors, and I recently sat with him for such an interview. It s in two parts below. Part one is about complementarianism more generally, and part two is about my new book Mere Complementarianism specifically. I put part…

Gay Activist Too ‘Conservative’ for Today’s Left – CBMW Podcast

On this episode of the CBMW Podcast, we discuss the backlash from New York Times readers to an article by Matthew Vines, in which he tries to normalize gay and distance himself from queer.

TGC’s review of 𝑀𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑚

Nadya Williams has written a positive review of Mere Complementarianism for TGC. She writes: This book is a helpful and readable resource for those who want to understand why complementarianism is important both theologically and practically—because this matters for the body of Christ that is the church. Mere Complementarianism delivers as promised: an overview of God’s vision for men and women in…

Mere Complementarianism on “Room for Nuance” Podcast

Sean Demars and I had a long discussion on his Room for Nuance podcast about my new book Mere Complementarianism: Male and Female in the Image of God. I really appreciate Sean s careful read of the book and his thoughtful questions. You can watch or listen at the YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcast links below.

Introducing “Mere Complementarianism”

Yesterday was the official release day of my new book Mere Complementarianism: Male and Female in the Image of God. It is now available at a variety of your favorite online booksellers: Amazon Barnes and Noble Westminster 10 of Those TGC Today we talked about the book on the CBMW podcast. I hope you ll take a listen but also get a copy of the book and read it. The YouTube video of our discussion…

Interview with Alisa Childers about “Mere Complementarianism”

Tomorrow is the official release date of my new book Mere Complementarianism: Male and Female in the Image of God. Many thanks to Alisa Childers for hosting a stimulating conversation about the book and all things complementarian on her podcast. Links to the video and podcast versions of the interview are below. Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube