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February 2026

February 13, 2026

Are Evangelicals Protestant?

In researching the post about whether Lutherans should count as Protestants, I came across another...

December 2025

December 17, 2025

Secular Protestantism

Daniel Hummel believes that America, however secular it has become, has a Protestant culture. And...

October 2025

October 07, 2025

Evangelicals’ Theological Illiteracy

A new study of the beliefs of evangelicals shows an alarming level of theological illiteracy.

June 2025

June 26, 2025

“Commitment to Follow Jesus” Surges

Barna has found that 66% of Americans say, "I have made a personal commitment to...

March 2025

March 13, 2025

What Is an Evangelical?

The new Religious Landscape Survey says that 23% of American Christians are "evangelicals." But that's...

September 2023

September 05, 2023

Non-Worshipping Evangelicals

Zondervan has just released what promises to be an important book, "The Great Dechurching." In...

November 2021

November 19, 2021

The Catechesis Problem

American evangelicalism today is plagued with scandals, politics, moral failures, and a confused message. This...

August 2021

August 24, 2021

Schism among the Evangelicals?

Some observers are seeing a schism developing among evangelicals, mainly for political and cultural reasons....

August 19, 2021

Vaccine Hesitancy

The biggest categories of the vaccine hesitant are not evangelicals but Nones, not Trump supporters...

July 2021

July 15, 2021

Surprising New Religion Data

New research on religion in America has some surprising findings that go against the conventional...

March 2021

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...

September 2020

September 18, 2020

The Historic Evangelical Opposition to Abortion

The pro-abortion camp is saying that evangelicals used to support abortion. But actually, despite one...

March 2020

March 11, 2020

The Catholic Elements in Contemporary Worship

Those who criticize us Lutherans for being "too Catholic" often hold "Catholic" beliefs themselves. Contemporary...

February 2020

February 05, 2020

Evangelicals’ Birth Rate Is Now Nearly as Low as That of Secularists

Evangelicals used to have significantly more children than secularist families. This is no longer the...

December 2019

December 02, 2019

Why Some People Don’t Like Evangelicals

Research from Barna on the general public's perception of evangelicals shows that 25% of Americans...

October 2019

October 12, 2019

An Evangelical Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize went to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiye Ahmed Ali, an evangelical...

July 2019

July 12, 2019

Evangelicals Blowing Off Baptism & the Lord’s Supper?

Mark Galli, editor-in-chief of Christianity Today, has been writing a thoughtful series of columns on the...

March 2019

March 26, 2019

Evangelicals Aren’t Declining After All

Contrary to the common impression, it turns out that the percentage of evangelicals in America...

May 2018

May 17, 2018

Are Evangelicals Now Dwindling Like Mainline Liberals?

According to a new study, the number of white evangelicals is dropping precipitously, to the...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Luther and Trump?

Did Martin Luther give us Donald Trump? Are Lutherans responsible for getting Trump elected? This...

April 30, 2018

Give the Word “Evangelical” Back to the Lutherans!

Many evangelicals are giving up the term "evangelical." They are embarrassed by their movement's...

April 27, 2018

“God of the Bible” or “A Higher Power”?

"I believe in God." That sounds like a straightforward statement. But what God do you...

October 2016

October 05, 2016

Solo scriptura vs. sola scriptura

A new study of evangelicals has found a surprising amount of out-and-out heresy when it...

July 2016

July 06, 2016

Did Donald Trump “accept Christ”?

Many evangelicals believe that a person becomes a Christian by making a "decision for Christ,"...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Why so many evangelicals are for Trump

Why are so many evangelicals supporting such a flagrant non-evangelical as Donald Trump? Ben Domenech,...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

Donald Trump as an evangelical

Donald Trump is calling himself an "evangelical." Christian columnist Michael Gerson discusses that self-identification, in...

August 2015

August 03, 2015

Racially friendly denominations may surprise you

A sociologist tested what denominations were most open to new people from different races. His...

April 2015

April 16, 2015

Evangelicals who believe in Purgatory

It has long struck me how many evangelicals--including some of the most anti-Catholic--actually hold to...