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June 2012

June 28, 2012

Grow Up, Evangelicals (and everyone else, too!)

"We're all adolescents now," suggests the subtitle of Thomas Bergler's essay in this month's issue...

June 27, 2012

REFORMATION UNRAVELLED

I just got hold of Eamon Duffy’s latest book Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and...

June 26, 2012

How Significant is Fred Luter’s Election for Southern Baptists?

This week my Baylor colleague Barry Hankins and I published a USA Today editorial, "Southern...

June 25, 2012

THE HOUSE OF CHARLES WILLIAMS

In a recent posting, I discussed the impact of overseas missions on the theology and...

June 22, 2012

REAL HERETICS

You may remember from earlier posts that I was eagerly anticipating R. I. Moore’s book...

June 21, 2012

America’s Most Influential Evangelicals

Cleaning out my office this week, I came across Time magazine's February 2005 list...

June 19, 2012

Evangelicals and Romney: Politics Trumps Theology?

Evangelicals are overwhelmingly indicating support for Mitt Romney in public opinion polls, and writers such...

June 18, 2012

THE UNPREDICTABLE GOSPEL

As Christianity has grown around the world over the past century, it has been fascinating...

June 15, 2012

What is Evangelicalism?

Since this blog is on Patheos's "Evangelical Channel," I thought we should devote at least...

June 14, 2012

MORMONS, CHRISTIANS AND EDITORS

There are probably good reasons why the New York Times keeps on publishing, but I...

June 13, 2012

What I Learned from J.D. Salinger

I usually don’t read literary biographies, but recently Kenneth Slawenski’s J.D. Salinger: A Life came...

June 12, 2012

Do Christian Kids Need Christian Education?

There's nothing like having school-age children to get you thinking about education. Yes, I went...

June 11, 2012

SYRIA’S FATE

Back in April 2011, at the height of the so-called Arab Spring, I published an...

June 08, 2012

A REAL LOST GOSPEL?

In a recent posting, I discussed the medieval heretical movement known variously as the Cathars...

June 07, 2012

Explo ’72

We are rapidly approaching the fortieth anniversary of a paradigmatic event in the history of...

June 06, 2012

Finding Hope at a Middle School Graduation Ceremony

My daughter graduated from eighth grade tonight. I was very proud of her. As the...

June 05, 2012

“Traditional” Baptists and Calvinism

In May 2012 a group of Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leaders posted a statement on...

June 04, 2012

THE WAR ON HERESY

I am not foolish enough to review a book before reading it, so please treat...

June 01, 2012

MAJORITY MINORITY

Anyone not already familiar with the term “majority-minority” should add it to their vocabulary very...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Andy Stanley’s Sermon

One of the more surprising developments (at least to me) in recent weeks was the...

May 30, 2012

CHESTERTON AND ISLAM

I was delighted to see my colleague Tommy Kidd writing so enthusiastically about G K...

May 30, 2012

Praise the Lord and Pass the Caffeine

This Sunday the preacher was talking about how the church sanctuary is a sacred place. ...

May 29, 2012

G.K. Chesterton and the Nightmare Goodness of God

Recently I read G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare (1908), a roller-coaster of a novel,...

May 28, 2012

LIFT EVERY VOICE

The prestigious magazine The Economist recently did a significant piece on the political and cultural...

May 25, 2012

FROM LIBERAL TO GLOBAL?

In the American Spectator, Mark Tooley discusses the recent General Conference of the United Methodist...

May 25, 2012

Christ the King

Hail happy land! hail happy state! Whose freeborn sons in safety meet… Come let us...

May 23, 2012

Remembering Megan

Professors are not supposed to attend the funerals of their students. But roughly one year...

May 22, 2012

Hell: Who Goes There, and For How Long?

Evangelical Christians have engaged in a robust, rancorous debate about hell in the past year. As I wrote...

May 20, 2012

THE GOSPEL OF US

It is eerie seeing your old home town suddenly becoming the center of a spiritual...

May 18, 2012

SOUTH SUDAN

I am normally reluctant to link to articles that need a subscription, but I’ll make...

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