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January 2013

January 16, 2013

What is an Evangelical? Prototypes

A very good article by Roger Olson proposes another dimension of defining who is and...

January 04, 2013

Is Evangelicalism Ending? 4

I begin with this claim: the church, the local church as well as the church...

January 02, 2013

Is Evangelicalism Ending? 3

What happens, then, to the doctrine of Scripture if David Fitch is right? What happens...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Is Evangelicalism Ending? 2

David Fitch, in his new book, The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for...

December 26, 2012

Is Evangelicalism Ending?

Many today are predicting the (even imminent) collapse of evangelicalism. Others, like Brad Wright, show...

December 12, 2012

The Prophetic is the Progressive

An adjective seems necessary because the word "evangelical" is used by so many types. We've...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

Evangelical Political Theologies

This is not about the right candidate; this is about how evangelicals frame their relationship...

November 21, 2012

Politicizing the Non-Political

If any two branches of the church should not be political it's these two, yet...

November 09, 2012

Are American Evangelicals Seduced by Militarism?

This post comes from Preston Sprinkle. Are American Evangelicals Seduced by Militarism? Is militarism consistent...

November 08, 2012

The Bible and the Believer (RJS)

A couple of years ago Pete Enns, along with Marc Brettler (Brandeis University) and Daniel...

October 2012

October 26, 2012

After Pietism

Tim Keller contends that in the first half of the 20th Century American evangelicalism went...

October 23, 2012

Tim Keller is What Carl Henry Had in Mind

In the late 1940s Carl Henry famously called fundamentalists out of the churches and into...

October 22, 2012

Evangelicals Left Out and Left Behind

Some people want to reclaim a supposed original meaning for the world "evangelical." Lillian Kwon,...

October 16, 2012

Moral Minority, Phase 2

Carl Henry, in 1947 in his book The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism, called American...

October 11, 2012

The Moral Minority

The state of the church when we came of age often becomes our perception of...

September 2012

September 04, 2012

Evangelism and Practice

From Ed Stetzer's research at LifeWay, and at the link you can read a fuller...

August 2012

August 16, 2012

Wither the Fig Tree, Whither the Wandering Saints? (RJS)

One of the most significant questions for Protestants, and perhaps for other Christians as well,...

August 01, 2012

Douthat, Bass and Christianity’s Culture Wars

Ross Douthat, whose book Bad Religion I posted about on this blog, has been given some...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Evolutionary Creation in the News (RJS)

BioLogos has received a good deal of press in recent weeks. The series Southern Baptist...

July 19, 2012

What are the politics of the term “evangelical”?

By Michael J. Altman: The real question for historians of American religion and especially historians of...

June 2012

June 19, 2012

A Repeating Story

Pete Enns recently posted about evangelical professors dying at their institutions because their ideas are...

June 18, 2012

Overestimating Youth Culture

Thomas Bergler's contention in his book The Juvenilization of American Christianity is two-fold: church and...

June 15, 2012

Evangelicalism and Partisanship Politics

Jonathan Merritt nails it here: the evangelical voice has grown strangely silent on Romney's Mormon...

June 08, 2012

Churches Gone Resistant

In 1994 a historic moment in the American church (purportedly) occurred: a rapprochement between major...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

We Need More of This! (RJS)

BioLogos has begun a series of posts, Southern Baptist Voices, exploring various objections to evolutionary...

May 24, 2012

Do We Have an Extrovert Ideal? (RJS)

Tuesday morning Scot linked an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education Screening Out Introverts...

May 19, 2012

Saturday Book Review: Michael J. Svigel

Retro-Christianity by Michael J. Svigel, and this review is by David Moore. Dave is the founder...

May 16, 2012

Too Comfortable in the Halls of Power

Jonathan Merritt knows the inside story of evangelicalism's flirtation with power in the last two...

May 11, 2012

Failed Strategies

Jonathan Merritt: Three decades ago, the evangelical faithful was galvanized by public debates over abortion,...

May 09, 2012

Evangelicalism’s Spirituality

One way of framing evangelicalism's spirituality looks like this: "It concerns the manner by which...