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January 2017

January 20, 2017

A Good Day to Remember that America is not my Entire Identity

Although I didn't need Donald Trump to remind me. As someone who has a life...

January 18, 2017

Trump Makes It Okay to Talk about the Graham Family’s Dark Side

Just when you thought it was safe to pick up a newspaper, out comes the...

January 12, 2017

It All Comes Down to Sex

A story on president-elect Trump's "extreme" policies included this fear-mongering observation about a charter school...

January 10, 2017

If Someone Ever Invites Me to Give a Commencement Address (fat chance)

I know what I am going to do. I am going to read James Wood's...

January 06, 2017

Is Jonathan Merritt a Reporter or Church Growth Consultant?

Journalists have had some 'splainin' to do of late after the presidential contest, accusations of...

January 05, 2017

2016 In Review: Technology

Dave Barry showed the sort of humor that so escaped many full-time journalists, but his...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

The Big Story of 2016 – The Moral Majority Is Alive

The following reaction to Donald Trump's victory is a little dated, but it does illustrate...

December 28, 2016

Fake News, Fake Narratives

Americans have heard a lot about the dangers of fake news of late and before...

December 22, 2016

The Rewards of Scholarly Trigger Warnings

As much as Daniel Williams bent over backwards to be sensitive to opponents shocked by...

December 20, 2016

Scholarly Trigger Warnings

Readers of the historiography of religion in the United States might have sensed a cultural...

December 15, 2016

WWJTB (what would Jesus’ tone be?)

While Carl Trueman and Peter Leithart are wondering about the harsh tone of Protestant polemics...

December 12, 2016

Is This How Paul Prayed for Nero?

Here's how Paul instructed Timothy: First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions,...

December 09, 2016

Teach Me, A Staple Manufacturer, How to Pray

This afternoon as I sorted through electronically submitted final papers and stapled them together, my...

December 08, 2016

Why Atheists Should Read H. L. Mencken

Mencken has lessons to teach all Americans (which expands potentially the market for my new...

December 06, 2016

Why Christians Need to Read H. L. Mencken

The most self-serving reason is the publication of my new book, Damning Words: The Life...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Didn’t Jesus Hang Around with Tax Collectors (and Real Estate Developers)?

Then why do Tony Campolo and Shane Claibornethink that followers of Jesus would repudiate Donald...

November 23, 2016

Three Matters for Which to Be Thankful

1) The best Thanksgiving movie out there may be For Your Consideration. It is another...

November 22, 2016

What You Overlook When You Like a POTUS

The current cast of Hamilton may be worried about President-elect Trump and Vice-president elect Pence,...

November 18, 2016

Scholarship In Black and White

I think I understand the concerns that many Americans have about the president-elect. I have...

November 15, 2016

Didn’t Evangelicals Vote Overwhelmingly for George W. Bush?

So what's so bad about voting for Donald Trump? Katelyn Beaty explains: This election, I...

November 10, 2016

They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Vote?

Some of us two-kingdom Protestants have been arguing for a while that an approach to...

November 09, 2016

American Dream or Gypsy Curse

Any child in the United States can grow up to be president of the nation....

November 07, 2016

How to Make America Great: Let Congress Elect POTUS

Imagine the savings if we didn't pump almost two years of political contributions into presidential...

November 04, 2016

Taking the Temperature of the Evangelical Mind

After meeting at Regent University for the biennial gathering of the Conference on Faith and...

October 2016

October 29, 2016

Why Don’t Evangelical Scholars Remember Nixon?

I do understand the disgust over Donald Trump, though I find it a tad inconsistent...

October 27, 2016

Speak Truth to Lena Dunham

The news of Donald Trump's vulgar comments is a little stale but criticisms of the...

October 22, 2016

Let George Washington Be George Washington

Why do American Christians -- used to be mainly Protestants but now Roman Catholics are...

October 20, 2016

Why Would Protestants Make Arguments that Undermine the Reformation?

Justin Taylor remembered that fifty years ago British evangelicals had their neo-evangelical against fundamentalist moment....

October 14, 2016

Of Two Minds (but one has a higher pay grade)

Observing Roman Catholics warming up for the five hundredth anniversary of the Reformation presents its...

October 11, 2016

What Would Donald Trump Say about Beyonce?

One could well imagine. And if the comments came in a locker room setting, the...

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