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June 2016

June 23, 2016

Do Christians Really Support Religious Liberty (part two)?

The first of this two-part series raised questions about an understanding of religion that so...

June 21, 2016

Do Christians Really Support Religious Liberty (part one)?

Russell Moore's recent defense of religious freedom for Muslim Americans reassured many: Does religious liberty...

June 16, 2016

Make America Great Again

Walter McDougal explains what -- trigger warning -- the Founders understood by American greatness: When...

June 15, 2016

So Far Everyone Agrees on Orlando as the Place

From 1847 to 1857 if we believe Wikipedia, the City of Orlando was known as...

June 10, 2016

Why Denominations Matter

The opera may be over when the fat lady sings, but for denominations it's time...

June 08, 2016

Evangelicals Have Painted Themselves Morally Into the Corner

Michael Gerson joins the chorus of evangelicals who repudiate Donald Trump: Support for Trump involves...

June 02, 2016

All Ages After the Fall Are Dark

Rodney Stark begins his chapter on the Dark Ages with an important observation: "For many...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

A Myth Destroyed Is Not History Understood

Rodney Stark's new book, Bearing False Witness, a volume that debunks Protestant myths (some of...

May 27, 2016

Socialized Theological Education

News that Andover Newton Seminary is moving to Yale Divinity School (the theological world's version...

May 24, 2016

Growing Up Fundamentalist Was Not All Bad

Over at Mere Orthodoxy, Jake Meador has republished an essay that Matthew Lee Anderson wrote...

May 20, 2016

Make America Biblical Again

Not too long ago I called attention to the tendency of evangelical historians to criticize...

May 18, 2016

Give ’em a Square Inch And They Take a Mile

Did you ever wonder why pastors, bishops, and popes think -- despite the specialization and...

May 13, 2016

Why The Bible is Only a Good Book not a Great One

Micah Mattix in a review of Arthur Krystal's new book on the Great Books writes...

May 11, 2016

America First

Don't let all that prejudice against Donald Trump get in the way of understanding an...

May 06, 2016

Marriage and the End of Moral Outrage

More news about Joe Paterno and his involvement in covering up Jerry Sandusky's sexual molestation...

May 04, 2016

Reverse Self-Righteousness

OneWheaton has come out strongly against Wheaton College for not denouncing alumnus Dennis Hastert after...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Uh Oh, The Moral World Just Got More Complicated

First comes word that Brazilians love the Confederate Flag: If you guessed Santa Barbara D’Oeste,...

April 26, 2016

Would Randy Have John’s Back on Jim?

Jim Wallis that is. Truth be told, I am a historian with certain religious and...

April 22, 2016

Wesleyans (finally) defeat Calvinists

About two decades ago, Donald Dayton and George Marsden had a bit of a kerfuffle...

April 20, 2016

Thinking Christianly or Constitutionally

In a review of John Wilsey's new book, American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion, Richard Gamble...

April 14, 2016

Evangelical Chicken and GOP Egg

Which came first? Evangelicalism or Republicanism? You hear a lot from evangelicals who have been...

April 12, 2016

Edward Said Meets Dwight L. Moody

For readers who have spent time with Edward Said's influential book, Orientalism, the thought that...

April 08, 2016

Blame the Anti-Smoking Social Justice Warriors

I still remember walking through a park in a southern California city and experiencing a...

April 07, 2016

Can Guys Who Look at Porn Be Victims Too?

Has the desire not to be Donald Trump become so pronounced that anti-Trump Christians are...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

After Trump Can Social Scientists Still Talk about Evangelicalism as a Bloc of Voters (with a straight face)?

Lydia Bean and Steven Teles are nostalgic for an evangelical constituency in which spokesmen and...

March 30, 2016

Evangelicalism’s Pietist Roots

Chris Gehrz is correct to offer the badge "pietism" as an alternative to evangelicalism, which...

March 25, 2016

First Billy Sunday, Now Joel Osteen

Those are just a few of the comparisons that observers are drawing about Donald Trump....

March 25, 2016

The Great Thing about being a Calvinist

You don't have to sweat the commercialization of Easter. Mollie Hemingway, a Lutheran, is right...

March 18, 2016

An Evangelical Guide to March Madness

The prominence of Roman Catholic universities in the NCAA Division 1 basketball tournament is readily...

March 16, 2016

Why Expect People Who Don’t Fear God to Act Like They Do?

Jason Jones and John Zmirak think liberals are incoherent at best and dangerous at worst....

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