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October 2023

October 09, 2023

American Evangelicals’ Categorical Problem

American evangelicals have a categorical problem. I’m not talking about our denominations, our broader theological...

September 2023

September 26, 2023

Why Did Jonathan Edwards Think That Slavery Was Morally Right?

John Piper, the Minnesota-based Baptist pastor who has popularized Jonathan Edwards’s Calvinist theology for a...

August 2023

August 22, 2023

Historicism Was a Greater Challenge Than Darwinism to Some Late 19th-Century Evangelicals’ Christian Faith

If you ask the average educated American Christian what new academic idea presented the greatest...

July 2023

July 25, 2023

President Warren Harding’s Liberal Baptist Faith

Next week marks the 100-year anniversary of the death of the first Baptist president of...

June 2023

June 27, 2023

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Christian Apologetics

It was a hot summer in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956. The temperature soared to 100...

May 2023

May 23, 2023

The Secret of Tim Keller’s Christian Apologetics

When I was losing my faith fourteen years ago, Tim Keller’s writings and sermons gave...

April 2023

April 25, 2023

The Churches That Honor Guns

This month at the Anxious Bench, a number of columnists are participating in a joint...

March 2023

March 28, 2023

The Southern White Evangelicals Who Voted for Carter (Not Reagan) in 1980

The story has been repeated so many times that it’s now one of the most...

February 2023

February 28, 2023

Why Tim Keller Stays out of the Culture Wars

A Review of Collin Hansen's Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation (Zondervan, 2023) In a world...

January 2023

January 24, 2023

Why Abortion Divides American Protestants

This week, the most controversial Supreme Court decision of modern times, Roe v. Wade, reached...

December 2022

December 27, 2022

What We Learned about Abortion Politics This Year

2022 was the most momentous year in the history of American abortion politics since 1973....

December 02, 2022

A Panopticon for a Ruling Class in the Digital Wilderness

This past Monday John Fea’s (21K f.; Messiah University Professor; author of Believe Me; past...

November 2022

November 29, 2022

Recovering Liberal Democratic Norms in Christian Politics: An Interview with Jay Green

I have becoming increasingly convinced that the preservation of a functioning democracy in which human...

October 2022

October 25, 2022

In Search of an Evangelical Political Theology

Is there such a thing as an American evangelical political theology? Some pundits are convinced...

September 2022

September 27, 2022

The Southernization of American Evangelicalism (and American Christianity)

Fifty percent of all people in the United States who attend church at least once...

August 2022

August 23, 2022

It Wasn’t the Religious Right That Made White Evangelicals Vote Republican

The Gospel Coalition’s article earlier this month critiquing Randall Balmer’s claim to have discovered the...

July 2022

July 26, 2022

The White Southern Protestants Who No Longer Attend Church

What happens to American politics and culture when white southerners in the Bible belt quit...

May 2022

May 31, 2022

What Will the Reversal of Roe v. Wade Really Mean? Five False Expectations

What will happen if the Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade next month and gives...

May 18, 2022

How Will the Pro-Life Movement Address Women’s Rights after Roe v. Wade Is Reversed?

One of the reasons that the conversation about abortion is so polarizing in the United...

May 03, 2022

What the End of Roe v. Wade Will Mean for Abortion Rates (part 1)

What will the end of Roe v. Wade really mean for abortion in America? If...

April 2022

April 22, 2022

What Secular Liberal Historians Can Teach Conservative Christians about the Gospel

Should a conservative Christian study history in a liberal secular academic institution? I was reminded...

April 05, 2022

The Five Emerging Factions in Evangelical Higher Education

Will the culture war flashpoints that are fragmenting American evangelicalism divide evangelical higher education as...

March 2022

March 08, 2022

Why Do American Evangelicals Endorse War as a Christian Cause?

“We feel your prayerful support,” a Ukrainian Christian who is on the front lines fighting...

February 2022

February 08, 2022

Evangelicals Who Love Social Justice but Hate Federal Social Programs

Many conservative white evangelicals are now embracing social justice causes that are often associated with...

January 2022

January 13, 2022

Did the Fundamentalists Win? A Centennial Retrospective

This year marks the centennial anniversary of one of the most famous sermons from the...

December 2021

December 16, 2021

Roe v. Wade’s Imminent Demise Reflects Liberal Protestantism’s Decline

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade next June – which is a likely...

November 2021

November 18, 2021

Biblical Authority amidst American Christian Division: From the Civil War to the Present

Supposedly, the split among American evangelical Protestants over slavery in the Civil War era reduced...

October 2021

October 21, 2021

Can Northern Evangelical Institutions Survive Evangelicalism’s Southernization?

“Evangelical,” the director of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Christian Liberty Commission said in 1976, was...

September 2021

September 23, 2021

What We Can Learn from Pastors Who Were Silent about Lynching

As I was preparing last week to lead a graduate seminar discussion of Amy Louise...

August 2021

August 26, 2021

Neither Democrat Nor Republican: The New Evangelical Nonpartisans

White evangelical politics in the United States has for many years been characterized primarily by...