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September 2026

September 28, 2026

What Coffee Reveals About America’s Evangelical Varieties

How Do You Take Your Evangelicalism? Evangelical experiences vary across America. The ideology expresses itself...

September 26, 2026

A Casserole is Not a Counterpoint

In the early twelfth century, the Cistercian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux began work on a...

September 21, 2026

Angelina Grimké’s Forgotten Turn to Apocalyptic Faith

Angelina Grimké and the Turmoils of Perfection Angelina Grimké shot like a meteor across the...

July 2026

July 27, 2026

The Evangelical Brand Image Crisis

Take your pick from examples of the evangelical brand image crisis. Just go over to...

July 20, 2026

The Sunday School Democrats: Carter and Talarico

A Tale of Two Jimmys With the 250th anniversary of American independence, there have been...

July 03, 2026

Profiting on Promoting 250 Years of Christian Nationalism

Celebrations commemorating 250 years of America have been an opportunity for evangelicals to reflect on...

March 2026

March 10, 2026

Evangelicalism and Interstices: A 19th Century Intervention

Before jumping into this piece, I want to make an acknowledgement. First, Professor Sutton has...

December 2025

December 23, 2025

My Farewell to the Anxious Bench

After five and a half years on the Anxious Bench, the time has come to...

October 2025

October 28, 2025

Karen Johnson on “Ordinary Heroes of Racial Justice”

Karen J. Johnson, a professor of history (and department chair) at Wheaton College, has just...

October 27, 2025

Everyday Evangelical Resistance for My Chicago Neighbors

“And who are my neighbors?” (Luke 10:29b) Mea culpa: This article is a combination of...

September 2025

September 23, 2025

The Gen-Z Religious Revival in Its Historical Context

The ink was scarcely dry on the newly released books lamenting young Americans’ inexorable rejection...

August 2025

August 26, 2025

James Dobson’s Death Was the End of an Era

James Dobson's death last week marked the end of a particular era in conservative evangelical...

August 25, 2025

John Mark Comer, Penal Substitution, and Evangelical Power

Reformed Evangelical Concerns About Comer Escalate Over a hot summer August weekend in 2025, evangelicals...

July 2025

July 22, 2025

John MacArthur’s Expository Preaching

Much of the commentary about John MacArthur in the wake of his death last week...

July 21, 2025

Evangelical Church Camps and Privilege

Evangelical church camps found their ascendance in the twentieth century. The privilege of resort and...

July 18, 2025

Rachel Held Evans and the Specter of Scopes in Dayton

The Scopes trial, one of the most famous court cases in United States history, was...

June 2025

June 24, 2025

The Real Significance of Dobbs

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade three years ago today in the case...

June 23, 2025

Trump’s God-Gilded Realpolitik Ended the 12-Day War

Apparently, the 12-day War is ending, all thanks to Trump's God-gilded realpolitik. What do I...

June 09, 2025

Evangelicals, CRT, and the Genetic Fallacy

Recently I was discussing Critical Race Theory with a professor colleague of mine who in...

May 2025

May 21, 2025

When Did Pentecostals Start Liking the Pope?

Growing up Pentecostal, my introduction to Catholic life came slowly and almost accidentally when a...

April 2025

April 22, 2025

Why Evangelicals Mourned John Paul II—but Not Francis

Pope Francis's Evangelical Critics Twenty years ago, when Pope John Paul II died, American evangelicals...

April 16, 2025

Twelve Years, Hundreds of Posts, and One Grateful Exit

After a dozen years, I bid farewell to the Anxious Bench.

April 07, 2025

Religion or Ethnicity 3 – Untangling Critical Race Theory

In my February I talked about Untangling Critical Race Theory: What Christians Need to Know...

March 2025

March 21, 2025

Evangelicals, Charismatics, and Reformation Roleplay, Part 2

In my last post, I charted the acceptance and gradual ostracizing of Pentecostals and charismatics...

February 2025

February 25, 2025

The Evangelical Assault on Democratic Institutions

As I have watched the rapid destruction of constitutional checks and balances and liberal democratic...

February 10, 2025

Religion or Ethnicity, Part 2: Evangelicals and Questions

Do evangelicals like questions? I guess it depends. Personally, I like both asking questions and...

January 2025

January 25, 2025

Was Carter a Progressive Evangelical or Centrist Politician?

When President Jimmy Carter died on December 29th, 2024, almost every obituary on the 39th...

January 24, 2025

Evangelicals, Charismatics, and Reformation Roleplay, Pt 1

Evangelicalism and ecstatic Spirit-filled movements have long had an uneasy relationship. The inclusion of Pentecostal...

January 14, 2025

History and Ourselves: Story, The Past, and Responsibility

David Blight, the eminent Civil War historian, begins every class he teaches in the same...

December 2024

December 18, 2024

The Bible Told Them So: An Interview with Rusty Hawkins

The people who were making these arguments for colorblind individualism in the late 1960s and...