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June 16, 2015

Gay Unions and Christian Divisions

It's always a pleasure to post a piece from the terrific Pete Wehner, whose sojourn has...

June 26, 2014

Christian Faith and the AIDS Crisis

The global AIDS initiative qualifies as one of the great moral stories, one of the...

June 07, 2014

Why Southern Baptists Quiesced and What to Do – Part 2

This is the second part of the article by Dr. Paige Patterson, the President of...

June 05, 2014

Why Southern Baptists Declined and What to Do

I was delighted to receive this article by Dr. Paige Patterson, the President of Southwestern...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Where Franklin Graham Has Gone Wrong

I'm always pleased to publish a post by the esteemed Peter Wehner.  * By Peter...

August 2013

August 09, 2013

No, Evangelicals Are Not United on Immigration Reform

The Rev. Michael Wilker -- who hosted 300 evangelical leaders at his Church of the...

August 08, 2013

Guest Post: Books to Help You Survive College with Your Faith Intact

I'm pleased at last to present the final installment of this series on remaining faithful...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

Loud on Poverty, Quiet on Abortion: The Danger of Selective Theonomy

My friend Rob Schwarzwalder from the Family Research Council offers the following guest post this...

March 2013

March 20, 2013

Mark Labberton on the Fragmentation and Future of American Evangelicalism

Last week, on the day Fuller Seminary announced its new President, Mark Labberton, we weren't...

March 08, 2013

Beyond Activism Innocence

It was my pleasure this week to interview Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, whose book, The World is Not...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

Can a Teddy Bear Save Your Child from Hell?

Listen, brother: If you don't want your children to roast forever in hell, you should...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Surprise! Evangelical Efforts Against Sex-Trafficking are “Colonialist”!

Editor's Note: Erik Campano has been conducting a series of interviews for Patheos around the...

January 12, 2013

Samuel Rodriguez on a Global Evangelical Movement to End Human Trafficking

Even before the Louie Giglio imbroglio brought evangelical anti-human-trafficking efforts back into the limelight, I...

January 07, 2013

Showing Grace When Evangelical Leaders Speak Intemperately

Recent comments in the wake of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, from the likes...

January 03, 2013

Muslims as “Children for Whom Christ Died” – Interview with Nik Ripken, Part 2

Recently I posted Part One of an interview with Nik Ripken, author of a provocative...

January 02, 2013

Christ Before the Cause: The Rise of a New Evangelical Politics

Peter Wehner's recent guest post here at Philosophical Fragments -- "The Callous Theology of James...

January 01, 2013

Is the Church a Family Anymore?

Roger Olson makes some interesting observations about the pietist origins of the old Watchnight Services...

December 2012

December 30, 2012

Dear Worship Pastor: It’s Not About You

Dear Worship Pastor, I enjoy praise and worship.  I really do.  And I appreciate the...

December 20, 2012

Breakfast Links for 12/20/12 – Gold, Frankincense and M-16’s; Religion of Certainosity; Gun Control Ignorance

BREAKFAST LINKS 12/20/12: Bill Blankschaen, Patheos/Bill In the Blanks: “Maybe Jesus was born away in...

December 14, 2012

These Aren’t the Religions You’re Looking For: Jedi Church, Postmodern Spirituality and the Christian Response

After I noted recently the UK Census trends on religion, and (rather in jest) pointed...

December 14, 2012

Breakfast Links for 12/14/12 – Hobbit on Steroids; Verbal Autopsies; NASA vs. the Mayans

BREAKFAST LINKS 12/14/12: Jeffery Overstreet, Patheos/Good Letters: “But where Tolkien served the head and the...

December 13, 2012

Who Owns “Evangelicalism” in America?

A little while ago, I had written two pieces (here and here) making the case...

December 07, 2012

Has America Lost the Protestant Work Ethic?

I was staggering around the internet this afternoon and came across this video of me...

October 2012

October 27, 2012

The Welcome Demise of “Cultural” Christianity

This point has made by others in other ways, but I don't think anyone has...

October 02, 2012

The Future of Evangelicalism Online

Evangelicals are neither loved nor respected in the American public square.   This is due in...

October 01, 2012

When Do You Stop Calling Someone an Evangelical?

Terry Mattingly raises an interesting question at the excellent GetReligion blog: When do we stop...

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