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January 2022

January 04, 2022

Maybe Dr. DuMez Has a Point

But perhaps white evangelical misogyny and masculinism is really a symptom of being American, not...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

The Optics and the Reality of Evangelical Elites

Carl Trueman's piece about the failure of evangelical elites likely misconstrued the work of George...

August 2021

August 17, 2021

Are Complementarians America’s Taliban?

Hard to know whom to believe about conditions in Afghanistan for women. Reporters in the...

June 2021

June 29, 2021

Thinking Theologically with David French (about aliens)

Recent reports about sightings of UFOs does not trouble Mr. French. (Nothing actually seems to...

June 15, 2021

A Good White Evangelical is a Dead One?

Death is the great leveler, not only in status but also personal animus. The death...

June 07, 2021

What Is Wrong with David French?

Remember the kid in high school who snitched on the other kids smoking in the...

May 2021

May 28, 2021

Do You need a Special Initiative to Do Public Theology (whatever it is)?

Here's the news about Russell Moore leaving the Southern Baptists Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission...

May 21, 2021

Is David French the Best Judge of America?

David French writes a weekly column at The Dispatch. Since he is an outspokenly evangelical...

April 2021

April 28, 2021

Obama Was Closer to King than to Biden

In the category of timelines, notice what the conversation about race used to sound like....

March 2021

March 05, 2021

Was America Founded A Roman Catholic Country? (with a Spanish accent)

The previous post included the observation that tracing the United States' roots to a Christian...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

Was America Founded A Roman Catholic Country?

I appreciate Jeff Polet's point about the problems of talking about an American Founding: A...

February 04, 2021

When Roman Catholics Feel a Little Protestant (and even Trumpy)

Many have faulted former President Trump's 1776 Commission for not being historical and not even...

January 2021

January 15, 2021

What if Christianity is Not Reasonable?

During the era of Trump, lots of evangelical thought leaders have indicated they are not...

January 13, 2021

Those Were the Days

Presbyterians and Puritans used to matter. Today, they rarely make the news. Baptists and Mormons...

December 2020

December 23, 2020

A Genealogy of Alarm

Remember how bad the environment was? The leaders of the Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, Audubon...

December 11, 2020

Do Anglicans in N. America Talk Funny?

H. L. Mencken thought that English Protestants used a different vocabulary from their fellow communicants...

December 04, 2020

It’s Obvious What He’s Doing

David French doesn't want you to confuse him with evangelical Protestants who do not receive...

November 2020

November 24, 2020

Shocked, Shocked that American Catholics Fund the Vatican

Massimo Faggioli makes it seem that Joe Biden will bring a new or better set...

November 20, 2020

Fundamentalists and Evangelicals as Outsiders

I did not know it was acceptable to otherize another group but John Fea does...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

Virtue Hiding

By now everyone knows about virtue signaling, the way to show you are good, decent,...

October 20, 2020

Politics and not Religion

What if economics and geography matter more than religion for electoral outcomes? Ken Woodward discussed...

October 16, 2020

Why Doesn’t Joe Biden Talk about Faith the Way the POTUS who Inspired Him Did?

What to make of Joe Biden as a Roman Catholic politician? The categories for evaluating...

September 2020

September 07, 2020

Jerry Falwell Jr., We Never Knew You

Not that the former president of Liberty University didn't make for some titillating headlines, but...

September 01, 2020

The Meaning of the Jerry Falwell, Jr. Scandal

Some observers of evangelicalism are obsessed with Falwell, in part seemingly because he is another...

August 2020

August 06, 2020

What About Nostalgia for a View of the Past?

Nostalgia has been on the ropes lately. The reason is apparently a new reckoning with...

July 2020

July 24, 2020

Christians Favor Secularism if the Option is Islam

The objections to the news that Turkey plans to use Hagia Sophia as a mosque...

July 10, 2020

Losing Whitefield

"Trust the science" has been a phrase used fairly often during the pandemic. Recent news...

July 09, 2020

How Evangelicals Can Vote for Joe Biden this November (if the governors let them)

Recent protests along with some of the demands of protesters, no matter how peaceful, may...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

How the Vandals became Christian

This is not about Germanic tribes after the Christianization of the Roman Empire. It is...

June 26, 2020

The People Who Support and Erect Monuments

They may be your and my neighbors. One of the themes that emerged in the...

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