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May 2017

May 04, 2017

Evangelicals Used to Hear They Scolded Too Much, Now Not Enough?

As if the repeated castigation of white evangelicals for voting Republican in the last POTUS...

May 03, 2017

Neither Male nor Female, But Always Jew or Greek

In 1992 justice Anthony Kennedy wrote on behalf of abortion rights that the sort of...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Don’t Tell Marshall Bruce Mathers, III

Apparently when Eminem performs, by Rev. Jemar Tisby's logic, the white rapper is guilty of...

April 25, 2017

Would We Know as Much about Evangelicals if Not for the Religious Right?

If evangelicals were not political would they generate any more attention than the Amish?

April 20, 2017

What You Give Up To Fit In

America is the land of the free but liberty comes with its limits. Protestants can't...

April 18, 2017

When it Comes to Denying Truth, Forget Foucault and Rorty but Remember Falwell

Molly Worthen heaps scorn on the evangelicals who voted for Trump by blaming our post-truth...

April 14, 2017

Peter’s Bad Good Friday

The story of Peter's denial of Christ, on Good Friday Eve (I hear some Christians...

April 13, 2017

Who Says You Can’t Enforce Morality?

While Rod Dreher complains about the dictatorship of moral relativism that has triumphed in the...

April 07, 2017

Do We Need a National Menu to go with Affordable Health Care?

Turns out when you make food affordable, you increase the costs of health care. Addison...

April 05, 2017

Calvinists Go to Heaven (not sure of everyone else)

Total depravity, the T in the infamous mnemonic, T-U-L-I-P, the so-called Five Points of Calvinism,...

April 03, 2017

A Hymn for Opening Day

Before Watts and Wesley, Protestants pretty much sang only Psalms. During the 1750s members of...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

The Progressive West Supports Islam – Are You Sure?

According to Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Brittany Pheiffer Noble, the Progressive West and the Christian West...

March 28, 2017

Advice for Russell Moore — Don’t Take Any from Sarah Posner

In the ongoing effort by journalists to discredit President Trump (I actually think he has...

March 24, 2017

If You Hate Living with the South, then Why Didn’t You Let Them Go?

The ill will President Trump taps. Just when you thought that nationalism and Brexit and...

March 17, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried About America Before the Election (part 4)

Christopher Lasch, a gifted intellectual historian, perhaps best remembered for supplying President Jimmy Carter with...

March 16, 2017

If You Have to Explain It, It’s Not Funny

My favorite light bulb jokes are these: How many teamsters does it take to change...

March 15, 2017

If U.S. Survived Andrew Jackson dot dot dot

Can't U.S. survive Donald Trump? Tommie Kidd provides a reminder of the parallels between Jackson...

March 14, 2017

Is Tim Keller about to have His Rod Dreher Moment?

Tim Keller, the PCA pastor of Redeemer Church in New York City, likely needs no...

March 02, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried About America Before the Election (part 3)

The reason is that we were reading Wendell Berry (at least) thirty years ago: The...

March 01, 2017

What if the NFL Were a Bigger Deal than Porn?

I know the biblical counselors used to reduce most of the moral law to idolatry,...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried about America Before the Election (part 2)

Dwight Macdonald, a mid-twentieth century Marxist critic who wrote for the New Yorker, New York...

February 22, 2017

America’s Original Greatness

Once upon a time, Americans celebrated George Washington's birthday on February 22, 1732. Now that...

February 16, 2017

Make Niebuhr Modest Again

I understand the easy target that President Trump is. But sometimes the swings boomerang, such...

February 14, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried About America before the Election

If you read H. L. Mencken with any sense that he has a point, you...

February 10, 2017

Distinguishing Good Catastrophism from Bad Catastrophism

Again, a hearty thanks to President Trump for restoring clarity to national conversations about a...

February 07, 2017

How Many Times Can the U.S. Lose Its Innocence?

One of my favorite books in grad school was Henry F. May's The End of...

February 03, 2017

Can We Have a National Conversation about Decency?

Today seems about as good as any to raise the question of national standards of...

February 02, 2017

Living in TV Reality

I have often wondered what the nature of national sovereignty was like under Soviet Communism....

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Remember When Separatism was so Fundamentalist?

Back in the day (and in grad school while studying the history of American evangelicalism),...

January 24, 2017

If Caitlyn Jenner is Normal, Why Can’t Donald Trump Be?

Imagine if elite journalists covered Donald Trump the way they did Caitlyn Jenner. Here's one...

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