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2025-07-20T14:56:52-04:00

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John MacArthur’s Expository Preaching

Last updated on: July 20, 2025 at 2:56 pm By Daniel K. Williams

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Much of the commentary about John MacArthur in the wake of his death last week has focused on the controversies about his views on gender and politics or his habit of turning a deaf ear to women who complained about abuse from their husbands or church leaders. But few people have asked the question of what made MacArthur popular to begin with. MacArthur was not a charismatic preacher in any sense of the word. As a cessationist, he was certainly... Read more

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2025-07-21T23:43:10-04:00

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Evangelical Church Camps and Privilege

Last updated on: July 21, 2025 at 11:43 pm By Joey Cochran

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Evangelical church camps found their ascendance in the twentieth century. The privilege of resort and camp life are portrayed in two cinematic depictions, Dirty Dancing and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. These depictions emphasize how resort and camp cultures were contexts to display class distinction and status, while simultaneously functioning as spaces for networking and cultural exchange. Both portrayals are set in an upstate New York Catskill Mountains resort. Dirty Dancing is a coming-of-age story about Baby (Jennifer Grey), who comes... Read more

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2025-07-17T14:18:22-04:00

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Rachel Held Evans and the Specter of Scopes in Dayton

Last updated on: July 17, 2025 at 2:18 pm By Guest Contributor

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The Scopes trial, one of the most famous court cases in United States history, was held one hundred years ago this month. Though it may seem irrelevant to twenty-first-century Christians, the trial in the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, had a lasting impact on the dynamics of Christianity in America. No one was more aware of the enduring legacy of the Scopes trial than one of Dayton’s residents, the late Rachel Held Evans. Evans moved to Dayton in 1994, where... Read more

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2025-07-18T18:56:07-04:00

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1893: The Revolution in Understanding Crime and Sexuality

Last updated on: July 18, 2025 at 6:56 pm By Philip Jenkins

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Have you ever used the words heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or masochistic? Or talked about sadomasochism? Have you ever expressed concern about child sexual abuse, or pedophilia? Then in linguistic terms as much as conceptual, you owe a sizable debt to a cultural revolution that occurred in the United States in and around the year 1893. I have argued that the year 1893 marked several critical turning points in American history, broadly defined, and especially in matters of religion. This was... Read more

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2025-07-16T11:18:27-04:00

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Zion: The Garden City of God

Last updated on: July 16, 2025 at 11:18 am By Alex Mayfield

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“The task of city design involves the vaster task of rebuilding our civilization.” Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities In the wee hours of the morning of January 1, 1900, civil engineer Burton J. Ashley stood among hundreds of his brothers and sisters in Zion Tabernacle. They were tired from the all-day consecration service that had begun at 6:30 a.m. on the previous day. Ashley, however, felt energetic. His moment had come. Just before the pause for refreshments at 2... Read more

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2025-07-14T21:08:58-04:00

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Interpreting Christ’s Weakness: On Partitive Exegesis

Last updated on: July 14, 2025 at 9:08 pm By Adam Renberg

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For today’s post, I’m going to focus a bit more on some of the theological frameworks I have been working on for an article– a “first look”, as it were, at the full article that’s due out this year. It may be a bit more theological than usual, but in thinking about how figures in the fourth century talk about Christ and how to read scripture, there’s still a lot for us to think through. Throughout the Gospels, Christ’s weaknesses... Read more

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2025-07-11T13:43:51-04:00

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Extracting Voices from the Archives: María de la Paz’s Story

Last updated on: July 11, 2025 at 1:43 pm By Verónica A. Gutiérrez

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Lynneth Miller Renberg’s discussion of archival silences and archival shouting in Listening to Archival Silence: History and Hidden Voices last month started me thinking about how we extract information from the archives. We can’t find what’s not there of course, but even when materials are present, finding them depends on how or whether they’ve been categorized, per the example of Sor Juana de la Cruz in the Karin Wulf article Renberg cites. Various factors affect archival research, like institutional collecting... Read more

1893: What Would Jesus Do To Improve the Race?

Last updated on: July 11, 2025 at 2:11 pm By Philip Jenkins

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In 1893, Congregationalist minister Josiah Strong (1847-1916) was a leading figure in the Social Gospel movement that was such a prominent feature of American Christianity in the late nineteenth century. The great church historian Sidney Ahlstrom calls him “a legend in American history, as both a religious and a secular figure.” But by modern standards, his ideas combined two approaches that to us seem utterly irreconcilable, of radical social reform and scientific racism. His story epitomizes a critical moment in... Read more

2025-07-09T14:12:13-04:00

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Min Jin Lee and the Art of Historical Fiction

Last updated on: July 9, 2025 at 2:12 pm By Michael Jimenez

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Last month’s post I briefly discussed the topic of summer reading. Before that post, I also wrote about how I plan on using historical fiction to craft a faith integration project. In about a month, I will be presenting that model at a conference. An essay that I looked at to help prepare my upcoming presentation is writer Vanessa Chan’s “It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Historical Fiction.” According to Chan, whose debut novel The Storm We Made just... Read more

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2025-07-04T03:46:38-04:00

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Does the Declaration of Independence Still Matter?

Last updated on: July 4, 2025 at 3:46 am By Lisa Clark Diller

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We love a nice round number—and 250 years since the U.S. War of Independence began is too significant to pass up. Somehow in fifty years of living on the East Coast, I haven’t toured Philadelphia’s historical sites, and doing so this year seemed appropriate. While at the Museum of the American Revolution, a well-organized museum and very accessible—highly recommend!—I was struck with what an opportunity this celebration is for us to join together across the culture wars and political divide.... Read more

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