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March 2018

March 13, 2018

The Stevens Point Pathway: How the Liberal Arts Will Die at Christian Colleges

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is planning to eliminate its arts, humanities, and social science...

March 12, 2018

Do Puritans (still) hold the key to America?

Marilynne Robinson, writer of beautiful novels and perspicacious essays, turns some attention to New England...

March 09, 2018

When the Jesus Movement Became the Christian Church

I have blogged quite a bit recently on early Christian history, and the further I...

March 08, 2018

Is It Time to Put Away “the Prophetic”?

A few weeks back, evangelical theologian Richard Mouw explained over at Religion News Service why...

March 07, 2018

Reconsidering Paul: A Reading List

In 1998, the Southern Baptist Convention amended the Baptist Faith and Message for the first...

March 06, 2018

The Winged Gospel: When Aviation Was a Religion

In the first decades of the 20th century, many Americans embraced aviation with religious enthusiasm,...

March 05, 2018

A Familiar Jesus?

My book Crucible of Faith recently received an extremely positive and generous review, and I...

March 02, 2018

Lost, Found, Saved, and Perishing

In several past blogs, I have commented on the extreme difficulty of reading the New...

March 01, 2018

Billy Graham, Again and Again

For me, as for many evangelicals, Billy Graham's death is personal. In 1988, Billy Graham...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

Black Fundamentalists and Moody Bible Institute

How black fundamentalists responded to Moody Bible Institute's accommodation to racial segregation

February 27, 2018

The Legacy of Billy Graham for Evangelical Intellectual Life

Billy Graham was a Christian college student, president, trustee, and benefactor. What's his legacy for...

February 26, 2018

(Another) Massacres of Innocents

The recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida reminds us once again about the dispiriting frequency...

February 23, 2018

Billy Graham and the Hell Bombs

So much has been written over the past few days about Billy Graham, who really...

February 22, 2018

History and the Human Condition: Reflections on Kate Bowler’s Everything Happens for a Reason

I remember the day a couple years back when my Facebook feed was suddenly overtaken...

February 21, 2018

Billy Graham at The Anxious Bench

I got back from lunch just now and found about four times the normal number...

February 21, 2018

Paul on Women: A Modern Obsession?

On August 4, 2009, John Piper, chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary, former pastor of...

February 20, 2018

When Did Evangelicals Start Observing Lent?

While they inherited the Reformers' concern about mandatory fasting and other disciplines, evangelical interest in...

February 19, 2018

Inventing Clerical Celibacy

I have been writing about the early Christian church around 200 AD, and how surprisingly...

February 16, 2018

The Curse of Quotations

I have posted several times on issues of translation, specifically about the New Testament. Today...

February 15, 2018

Protestants and Immigration, Past and Present

Nicholas Pruitt teaches in the Department of History at Eastern Nazarene College. He's also a...

February 14, 2018

Race and Respectability at Moody Bible Institute

Moody Bible Institute’s pursuit of middle-class respectability led away from a soft racial egalitarianism toward...

February 13, 2018

Faithland: What’s the Most Highly Religious Part of America?

Did you see this map making the rounds a couple weeks ago? Using data from...

February 12, 2018

When the Neighbors See Mary

In the mid-1990s my husband and I, living in southern Germany for his fellowship year,...

February 09, 2018

Civil Discourse Amidst the Dodos

Most Americans are rightly appalled at the level of civil discourse over most matters of...

February 08, 2018

Forgiveness or Hypocrisy? Evangelicals, Abuse, and the Witness of Rachael Denhollander

Access Hollywood. Roy Moore. Stormy Daniels. The cast of characters may shift from one scandal...

February 07, 2018

A Free Lenten Devotional

How to download a free Lenten devotional that Chris edited: inspired by his book, The...

February 07, 2018

Calling Out Sexual Harassment: The Implications Of Complementarianism

Meredith Stone, a Baptist female seminary professor, responded last week to John Piper. If you...

February 06, 2018

Church History Is the Future of Christian Colleges

A leading historian of evangelicalism thinks that "the study of Church history has ‘a huge...

February 05, 2018

A (Great) Lost Poem of the Great War

It’s taken me a mere fifty years to find the full meaning of a poem....

February 02, 2018

The Long, Long, Story of Groundhog Day

I originally published a version of this piece at RealClearReligion back in 2013. I say...

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