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Republican evangelicals have been demonized for electing Donald Trump. The lingering disdain toward conservatism after the Obama era is leaving some evangelical Republicans with a wounded conscience. Are they racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes for electing Trump? And what of the 2018 election?

Traumatized men often leave the Christian faith. How can pastors proactively help this population of men? Dr. Paul Maxwell breaks it down.

Is New Calvinism just a rip-off? Dr. Paul Maxwell explains. Read the full article with footnotes at SelfWire.org.

Millennial Friendships Are Dying Violently — Here's Why.

Masculinity, faith, and trauma can instinctively cannibalize one another. We outline (1) why, and (2) how we can recover them.

Dr. Con Campbell, world expert in New Testament Greek, sits down to talk about Pauline eschatology, the place-time continuum, and hope.

Journalists on the left and the right (and Ford herself) have appealed to trauma science for and against Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. Here, Dr. Paul Maxwell breaks down the relevant trauma science to understand EVERYTHING.

On this first Joe Rogan-style SelfWire podcast, Joe Thorn breaks down confessionalism, subscription, doubt, New Calvinism, and the practice of Christian orthodoxy. For more, visit SelfWire.org.

Tim Keller responds to the social justice statement with speech act theory. Critics accuse him of using a marxist concept. Dr. Paul Maxwell breaks it down. Subscribe to the SelfWire email: http://eepurl.com/dGtoKf Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEn-35O8UuX2Y69uSpEqpkg? Read the full article on the SelfWire website: https://selfwire.org/article/is-speech-act-theory-marxism-keller-pulpit-pen-social-justice  

Biblical interpretation no longer has a “center”—not even the text it’s interpreting. How did this happen? And where do we go from here? Subscribe to the SelfWire email: http://eepurl.com/dGtoKf Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEn-35O8UuX2Y69uSpEqpkg? Visit the SelfWire website for more resources: https://selfwire.org

Leftism and conservatism have locked horns over masculinity. This article proposes a definition of masculinity that avoids the toxic elements of both relativism and naive realism. Subscribe to the SelfWire email: http://eepurl.com/dGtoKf Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEn-35O8UuX2Y69uSpEqpkg? Visit the SelfWire website for more resources: https://selfwire.org

Christian hedonism has helped many people find a sense of joy within Christianity. But what are the costs of turning this single insight tool into an entire worldview? We list 5 of them. Subscribe to the SelfWire email: http://eepurl.com/dGtoKf Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEn-35O8UuX2Y69uSpEqpkg?view_as=subscriber