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October 2016

October 07, 2016

Why the Public Schools Need the Bible

If exposed to passages like the following, graduates of public schools would not need trigger...

October 05, 2016

President Obama is the Most Christian President Ever

Okay, maybe "ever" is too strong. But if you read his remarks when welcoming Pope...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

High Church Protestantism

You don't need to become an Anglican to have a high view of the visible...

September 28, 2016

No Need for Tony Campolo to Give Up Being Evangelical

Evangelicals have always been liberal Protestants, if you define liberalism, as most religious historians do,...

September 23, 2016

Hell Is not (a problem) Reserved for Calvinists

Roger Olson shows some civility to Calvinists in a post about a t-shirt caption making...

September 21, 2016

Does This Mean Black Lives Matter is Fundamentalist?

Benjamin Corey thinks fundamentalism is making a come back: American culture is currently experiencing what...

September 15, 2016

Can You Be Progressive and Intolerant?

A theme that goes around in evangelical circles is how born-again Protestants were once on...

September 13, 2016

What Historical Perspective Looks Like

I know I've given evangelical historians a bit of grief for opposing Donald Trump (opposition...

September 08, 2016

The Temptation of Raising the Stakes

Don't do it! Christians who write about politics and culture are in the habit of...

September 07, 2016

Imagine What It’s Like to Be A Calvinist

Mary Eberstadt in her new book, It’s Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies,...

September 01, 2016

Lost In Trespasses and Sins

Is she describing Donald Trump or President Obama? I get Evangelicals, those hard-working, hard-loving, hard...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

Islamic Exceptionalism

Ever since visiting Turkey I have been fascinated by the interaction between Islam and the...

August 24, 2016

What is the Shelf-Life on Memory?

Are Europeans in the EU allowed to remember Europe's Christendom past? Are Armenians allowed to...

August 22, 2016

Christian Intellectuals Are Overrated

Alan Jacob's Harper's piece on the evaporation of Christian intellectuals and his subsequent exchange with...

August 19, 2016

What Would Mohamed or Jesus Do?

Shadi Hamid has a new book out that argues the fit between Islam and modern...

August 17, 2016

Church Unity Eliminates Jobs

That assertion is obvious. If Methodists and Presbyterians both have editors of denominational magazines, then...

August 11, 2016

Damned If You Do, Dead if You Don’t

Trigger warning: this post may sound excessively pro-police. Don't blame me. Blame David Simon, the...

August 10, 2016

If You Celebrate the American Founding, Legalize Drugs

The results of this recent poll got me thinking (it's rare). According to the Barna...

August 08, 2016

The Re-Birth of White Christian America

Disclaimer: Sweet Briar College is neither exclusively Christian nor all-white. This post's intention is not...

August 02, 2016

What Must Evangelicals Do To Be Saved (from Donald Trump)?

Don't do what some Roman Catholics advocate: We attend a special Rosary group when we...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Evangelical Piety Trumps History

Readers beware: more about evangelical historians and what they talk about (though Trump is coming)....

July 26, 2016

History as Seeing What You Want To

As evangelical historians discuss the merits of regular historians' opposition to Donald Trump, another religious...

July 21, 2016

Turkish Historians Matter

Yes, this has lodged in my craw but I continue to be fascinated and a...

July 19, 2016

Did Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter Make the Crooked Places Straight for Donald Trump?

A few years ago, Americans watched a protest movement take shape designed at getting rid...

July 15, 2016

Do You Need to be an Extrovert to be Evangelical?

The expiration date on the Myers Briggs personality test may have passed, but the differences...

July 11, 2016

Gospel Songs Are Patriotic Too

It's hard to believe only a week ago bloggers were talking about patriotism and the...

July 08, 2016

The Tragedy and Mythology of Law Enforcement

Matthew J. Hall thinks evangelicals need to break the silence on race and speak out....

July 07, 2016

Does the Church Also Need to Apologize to Onanists?

For the biblically challenged, onansim is a synonym for masturbation, Onan being that character in...

July 01, 2016

What Does Faith Have to do with Citizenship?

Michael Gerson thinks evangelicals have lost their faith in signing up to support Trump (via...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Turkish Lives Matter

Why so much anguish about the shootings in Orlando but nothing (that I've seen so...

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