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June 2013

June 19, 2013

Jesus and War

Rand Paul: Making the case against excessive American engagement overseas, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) reminded...

June 18, 2013

Immigration Reform, an Evangelical Cause

Source: CHICAGO (RNS) On a recent Sunday morning, Jenny Yang stood beside a giant wooden...

May 2013

May 13, 2013

Russell Moore on Christians and Politics

From Out of Ur: Christians seem to swing the pendulum between pietistic disengagement and hard-boiled...

March 2013

March 10, 2013

One more time: The Bible in Public Schools

I posted yesterday a clip from Jon Merritt's forthright stand against the teaching of the...

March 09, 2013

Bible in Public Schools?

Jonathan Merritt says No, what say You? On Sunday night, the long awaited mini-series “The Bible” premiered...

February 2013

February 12, 2013

Millennials and Stress

Parents and pastors, friends and co-workers... this deserves our attention. Stress levels for Americans have...

January 2013

January 21, 2013

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Martin Luther King. Jr. Letter From Birmingham Jail April 16, 1963 MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN:...

December 2012

December 17, 2012

Freedom Bites Back

We Americans value freedom, we value our freedoms, we value freedom -- each one of...

December 05, 2012

A New Kind of Discipleship

In his new book, A Thicker Jesus: Incarnational Discipleship in a Secular Age, Fuller seminary's...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

Evangelical Political Theologies

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

November 12, 2012

Friendly, but less-than-patient, Fire from within Evangelicalism

I got a note the other day from a friend who had read Peter Leithart's...

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 07, 2012

Politics and our Eschatology

Somewhere overnight or this morning the eschatology of American Christians may become clear. If a...

October 2012

October 28, 2012

Obama’s Faith: A Journey

This piece by Dan Gilgoff, in some ways sharpens a recent post of mine where...

October 13, 2012

Decline in Religion

Pew study on religion, and here is a brief summary with a graph: What does...

October 11, 2012

The Moral Minority

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

September 2012

September 27, 2012

Americans and Dependency

From Matthew Spalding: Do you think benefits ought to entail working for them? Last year,...

September 26, 2012

On Preaching Politics

From Cristina Corbin: Have you been hearing about this? Will you be defying the IRS?...

September 20, 2012

It’s Uncivil

From Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse: There is a difference, in public discourse,...

September 11, 2012

Bible Back in Schools

From Drew Zahn; follow the link for the full article: One county in Tennessee, however,...

September 03, 2012

Rich Mouw, Abraham Kuyper, and Culture

How does the Christian live in, relate to and transform culture? This question, one that...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Hunter-Gatherer Diet our Problem?

Herman Pontzer says No: DARWIN isn’t required reading for public health officials, but he should...

August 20, 2012

Religion and Politics and the Change

From Christian Science Monitor, where you can read the full story: For the first time...

August 16, 2012

Where the Political Process Breaks Down

Asking the "Congress to confront America's idolatry of guns was asking the fox to guard...

August 08, 2012

If We Could Tune Out, We Would, but …

... most of us will still vote. David Rothkopf gets it exactly right: But of...

August 06, 2012

The Waiting is Over

James Atwood admits he has been waiting for 36 years, but that wait (for all...

August 02, 2012

Speaking of Douthat

Yesterday we bounced off of a recent book and post by Ross Douthat (and also...

July 2012

July 28, 2012

Jen Hatmaker on Chick-Fil-A

From Jen Hatmaker's blog, a bit of a rant of frustration that appeals for toleration...

July 24, 2012

Let’s Get Legal: Gary Wills on the Right to Bear Arms

This is from a 1995 NYReview of Books piece by Garry Wills. In American law,...

July 24, 2012

Yet Another on Gun Laws

This social scientist, Patrick Egan, documents improvement on violence and gun laws ... Which proves...