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April 2021

April 20, 2021

Evangelical Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus

Today even non-Christians are calling themselves "evangelical."

April 16, 2021

No, Religious Conservatives Didn’t Cause Church Membership Decline

With Church membership in America declining below 50%, many observers are blaming evangelicals' political involvement...

March 2021

March 26, 2021

The Human Sacrifice Deniers

Some critical theorists are denying that the Aztecs practiced human sacrifice, offering evidence-free arguments, despite...

March 25, 2021

Prayer to Aztec Gods in Public Schools

A proposed "model curriculum" in ethnic studies for California public schools, has children chanting prayers...

March 12, 2021

The Equality Act Takes Away Religious Exemptions

The Equality Act, which just passed the House and goes to the Senate, extends the...

March 03, 2021

Why Evangelicals Are So Disliked, Part II

A major reason Evangelicals have become so disliked today is politics; specifically, their high level...

March 02, 2021

Why Evangelicals Are So Disliked, Part I

Christians today are hated not just for following Jesus--as He said they would be--but also...

March 01, 2021

Evangelicals as “the Other”

A prominent social scientist says that Evangelicals are so repugnant to the social elite that...

February 2021

February 10, 2021

When Everything Becomes Political

Today, virtually everything has become political: religion, relationships, education, entertainment, the arts, working, buying, eating,...

January 2021

January 18, 2021

The Return of Liberal Christianity?

Some say the victory of political liberalism and the discrediting of evangelicalism may be accompanied...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

2020 as Existential Crisis

Nearly eight out of 10 Americans (77%) believe that 2020 has put the country into...

December 18, 2020

The Three Religious Factions That Missed the Point of Christmas

The Pharisees, Sadducees, and the Zealots--then and now--miss the meaning of the coming of Christ.

December 10, 2020

How Blacks and Immigrants Will Help the Conservative Cause

Blacks, Hispanics, and other immigrants are more conservative and more religious, on the whole, than...

November 2020

November 25, 2020

The Crises in the West and in Islam

The new spate of Islamic terrorism in France, due to more Charlie Hebdo cartoons, demonstrates...

November 20, 2020

The USA is 1/3 Religious, 1/3 Secularist, & 1/3 in between

When it comes to religion, the best way to describe the nation overall is that...

October 2020

October 02, 2020

Identity Politics vs. Transactional Politics

Reactions to Trump's alleged mockery of his evangelical supporters demonstrate two approaches to politics. Some...

September 2020

September 10, 2020

The Futility of Coercing or Punishing Belief

Historically, some religions and governments have tried to compel people to hold a certain belief...

September 09, 2020

Is Doctrine about Truth, Experience, or Language?

Not only do theologians have doctrinal differences. They also have differences about what doctrine even...

July 2020

July 08, 2020

A Great Awakening without Christianity

Some people who were zealous for social distancing, mask wearing, and avoiding crowds to counter...

July 07, 2020

Protestantism without the Christianity

"Post-Protestant" refers to the Protestant mindset that continues, even though the Protestant religious beliefs that...

June 2020

June 19, 2020

Power and Moral Purity

The anti-racism protests are a repudiation of moral relativism, which is healthy. Human equality and...

June 16, 2020

The Liberal Theology of the Nazi Church

Christianity--especially Lutheranism--is sometimes blamed for Nazism. It is true that the German state churches were...

June 12, 2020

Dog People, Cat People, and Religious People

A study of pet ownership has found that religious people are just as likely to...

June 11, 2020

The Coming Neo-Feudalism

The post-liberal order is shaping up to be neo-feudalism: The role of the church is...

May 2020

May 27, 2020

Another Revision of Marriage: Utah Decriminalizes Polygamy

When same-sex marriage was legalized, many observers foresaw still more redefinitions of marriage. Now Utah,...

May 08, 2020

Reversing Religious Decline

Religion waxes and wanes in a culture and throughout history. It can fade away, but...

May 06, 2020

Causes of Secularization, such as Too Much Religious Power

The American Enterprise Institute study of American religion finds reasons why societies become less religious....

May 05, 2020

A Major Study of American Religion, with Surprises

The American Enterprise Institute has released an important study of American religion. It finds that...

April 2020

April 16, 2020

The Religion of Desire

According to a book entitled "Is Europe Christian?" the secularism of contemporary Western culture comes...

March 2020

March 13, 2020

From Shallow Evangelicalism to Shallow Liberalism to Deep Christianity

An account of a young man who found his childhood evangelicalism too shallow. He moved...