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August 2017

August 22, 2017

Evangelicals Took Faith Too Seriously

Mark Lilla's new book, The Once and Future Liberal, is gaining some attention as one...

August 17, 2017

Forget about 81%, Think about 1997

Two decades ago, Christine Leigh Heyrman won the Bancroft Prize (the prestigious annual book award...

August 15, 2017

Look How Tim Keller and Donald Trump Agree

Are Americans more prone to believe that Keller or Trump is sincere? And are Christians...

August 11, 2017

Giving Your Testimony is what Protestants Do (even when they become Roman Catholic)

Last month we (some of us) read about Elizabeth Bruenig's conversion from Protestantism to Rome....

August 08, 2017

From Charles Finney to Lena Dunham: The Oberlin Factor

News has circulated about Lena Dunham's out-tweeting of American Airlines' staff who while discussing transgender...

August 04, 2017

How Skeptics View Christianity

J. Gresham Machen was by most accounts a fundamentalist. In 1923 he wrote, Christianity and...

August 02, 2017

Why You Can’t Get Out of Evangelicalism

Protestants are converting to Rome because evangelicals won’t pony up with structures and norms and...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

Protestants Learned to “Do” Politics from Roman Catholics

If Christians had to argue about politics without riding the high horse of Christian norms,...

July 26, 2017

Politics is What White (and many Black) Protestants Do

Why is this so hard? Historians who study religion are falling all over themselves to...

July 21, 2017

Calvinists and Muslims Together

Since first visiting Turkey six years ago and thinking about the relationship between Islam and...

July 20, 2017

Follow the Bouncing Evangelical Ball

Readers may be hard pressed to figure out what some have recently written about evangelical...

July 13, 2017

Freedom with Qualifications

From presidents to non-Americans, many people used to regard the United States as the leader...

July 11, 2017

First the South Was Toxic, Now the West

Staying on the right side of history is tricky in these fast changing times. Back...

July 04, 2017

What Patriotism Isn’t

Sean Michael Winters corrects against two popular errors. The first is to blame America: The...

July 04, 2017

Ecclesiastical Independence

Where does the American War for Independence mesh with the Protestant Reformation? The short answer...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

Theology of the Cross says Losing is Winning (and winning losing)

Yesterday's Supreme Court decision, Trinity Lutheran v. Comer, was on the surface a victory for...

June 24, 2017

If Worldview Goes, So Does WWJD?

Trying to make politics conform to gospel ends is to miss the ginormous gap between...

June 23, 2017

Shouldn’t Implicit Bias Make a View of the World Go Away

For the last three decades at least (thanks perhaps to Francis Schaeffer and Reformed Protestant...

June 15, 2017

Jesus Forgives Sins, the United States Doesn’t

If Southern Baptists think their resolution condemning the alt-right will make them right with the...

June 14, 2017

Today’s College Students Can’t Handle the Stones

One of my stations at Pandora is The Moody Blues, one of the bands that...

June 09, 2017

Not Everyone Loves Niebuhr

I for one think Christians should be wary of cheering for fellow Christians in public...

June 07, 2017

Illiberal Freedom?

Now that we have illiberal democracy in the United States, maybe we can also consider...

June 02, 2017

Judge a Book by Its Cover (and don’t use Kindle)

Crawford Gribben's careful and thoughtful biography of John Owen is also an important contribution to...

June 02, 2017

Don’t Blame the Reformation

Supposedly the rise of Protestantism upended the glorious harmony of Christendom and the Roman Catholic...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Evangelicals Showed How Tolerant They Are by Voting for Donald Trump

Anyway, why can't you look at the results of the 2016 election and read it...

May 24, 2017

A Threat to Democracy

Is it more likely to come from the evangelicals who voted for Trump or from...

May 19, 2017

Can You Imagine An English Department Agreeing on Shakespeare?

So why does Dwight Longenecker think that his appeal to 2000 years of church teaching...

May 17, 2017

David Gushee Finally Agrees with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Gushee is only the most recent indication of evangelicalism's hollow identity.

May 12, 2017

Stephen Colbert is no Johnny Carson

And Lena Dunham's Girls is no Leave it to Beaver. So why doesn't Colbert see...

May 12, 2017

If the Church Needs to Include Caitlyn Jenner, What about Donald Trump?

Rod Dreher writes about his appearance on the On Point NPR show and needing to...

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