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June 2026

June 11, 2026

Whatever Happened to Theological Modernism?

Mark Tooley gives an excellent overview of the decline of theological modernism, the rationalistic "liberal...

May 2026

May 27, 2026

Bringing the Protestant Mainline Back to Orthodoxy

On Operation Reconquista, also known as Operation Reformation, an organization devoted to bringing the Protestant...

April 2026

April 22, 2026

Why a Nonbeliever Scorns Liberal Theology

Why do liberal theologies, designed to appeal to the "modern mind," gain so little traction...

April 07, 2026

Progressive Christianity Tries for a Comeback

Despite the collapse of liberal churches, there seems to be an effort to bring back...

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...

August 2025

August 12, 2025

The ELCA Drops “And the Son” from the Nicene Creed

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has agreed to drop the "filioque" from the...

May 2025

May 23, 2025

The Pope Takes On AI: A New Church Strategy?

Pope Francis focused on controversies and proposed reforms within the church. Whereas Pope Leo seems...

March 2025

March 14, 2025

“Mainline” Protestantism Is No Longer Mainstream

The new "Religious Landscape Survey" findings about "Mainline Protestantism" herald a significant development in the...

February 2025

February 20, 2025

The Authority for Liberal Theology

As Roger Olson has shown, "the best of modern thought," not the Bible, is the...

September 2024

September 26, 2024

Confessions of an Ex-Mainline Protestant

I grew up in mainline Protestantism and experienced it from the inside. I witnessed its...

September 25, 2024

What Happened When the Protestant Mainline Collapsed

The Mainline Protestant churches had long played the role as America's conscience. After their collapse,...

September 03, 2024

Praise for the LCMS Victory Over Liberal Theology

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the split in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod...

April 2024

April 09, 2024

A Problem When Muslims Convert to Christianity

Adult baptisms are surging in France. As many as 10-20% of those are reportedly coming...

February 2024

February 02, 2024

How One Editor Transformed American Religion

[a free post] In the 1920's, books about religion were the second biggest-selling genre, next...

December 2023

December 14, 2023

Instrumentalizing the Gospel

In the course of writing about Ayaan Hirsi Ali's conversion to Christianity, Carl Trueman raises...

September 2023

September 13, 2023

The New Difference Between Liberal and Conservative Theology

Liberal theologians used to argue with conservative theologians about truth claims--the inerrancy of Scripture, the...

June 2023

June 21, 2023

“Queerness as the redemptive message of Christianity”

The issue in progressive churches is no longer gay rights, or accepting LGBTQ+ members and...

August 2022

August 30, 2022

The “Fictionalist” Approach to Religion

A rabbi refutes the notion that one can be Jewish without believing in God, that...

August 25, 2022

“Liberation from an Imploding Denomination”

Methodist congregations are having to choose whether to leave their denomination or stay. Mark Tooley...

July 2022

July 18, 2022

Methodists & Abortion

The stalled split of the United Methodist Church was originally over the LGBTQ controversy, but...

January 2022

January 19, 2022

The “Social Trinity” vs. Nicene Christianity

The doctrine of the Trinity is back in vogue among liberal theologians, but they replace...

January 10, 2022

Post-Christian Christianity

The problem is not just a secularized culture, but a secularized church. Russell Moore warns...

December 2021

December 21, 2021

How Liberal Protestantism Gave Us Roe vs. Wade

The supporters of the 1973 decision legalizing abortion say that religious considerations should not be...

August 2021

August 13, 2021

A Religion That Tried Too Hard to Blend into the Culture

A historian writes about the attempt of some Buddhists in the Soviet Union to change...

July 2021

July 28, 2021

“The Church Must Keep Up with the Times”

A Mel Brooks joke, the Catholic controversy over the Latin Mass, the worship wars, the...

March 2021

March 30, 2021

Rome’s New Struggle with German Reformers

Five hundred years ago, the Vatican was struggling against a reform movement out of Germany. ...

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 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.

September 2020

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...