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March 2016

March 11, 2016

Do Apologies Change Anything?

If I were to cheat on my taxes, I could pay the amount I failed...

March 09, 2016

Less Hypocritical Than Thou

Randall Balmer isn't at all surprised by evangelicals' support for Trump. Evangelicals, he says, are...

March 04, 2016

The Way Past American Exceptionalism

Christian critics of the United States often have a point. The nation is guilty of...

March 02, 2016

Why Can’t Evangelicals Have a Persecution Complex?

Randall Stephens makes a decent case for the origins of the evangelical persecution complex: Conservative...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Does Support for Trump Increase as Biblical Authority Declines?

Some pundits are scratching their heads over evangelical support for Trump: Evangelicals have for decades...

February 24, 2016

The Book Business You Will Always Have With You

Is Amazon's decision to open brick-and-mortar bookstores an indication that the business is turning around....

February 19, 2016

What’s Wrong With Being Liberal?

It is the season of not wanting to be a Donald-Trump supporter, Islamophobic, and racially...

February 18, 2016

Sometimes You Just Have To

Pope Francis got a lot of attention in the press for uttering the controversial line...

February 12, 2016

If Jesus is My Lover, Does that Make me Gay?

Yes, that's a provocative question, but sometime the excesses of evangelical and New Calvinist piety...

February 11, 2016

Why I Won’t Be Observing Lent

Peter Leithart proposes reasons for Protestants to observe Lent. I'm still not buying. PL: Lent...

February 05, 2016

Why Do Evangelicals Outside the U.S. Sound Like the U.S. Reporters at CNN?

Over at Sojourners (via John Fea) Wes Granburg-Michaelson, the former General Secretary of the Reformed...

February 04, 2016

Why Not Give Up Being Evangelical?

James Bratt thinks the evangelical brand has lost its usefulness, thanks in part to all...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

Jerry Falwell’s Support for Donald Trump is Smarter than You Think

In fact, Falwell's endorsement of Trump goes in exactly the right direction, as opposed to...

January 27, 2016

What Questions Should Christians ask of Presidential Candidates?

It was a bit of harmonic convergence that I read in the same day two...

January 22, 2016

Does Academic Freedom Turn All Professors into Theologians?

I think I can understand Tracey McKenzie's sense of relief as a Christian historian in...

January 20, 2016

Why the Comparisons between Jesus and Trump Make Sense

Never have I seen a political candidate with the power to change lives as much...

January 15, 2016

If You “Do” Advent, Are You an Evangelical?

Low church baby-boomers like myself grew up only knowing about the birth and death parts...

January 13, 2016

What Happens When You Find What You Thought You Left Behind?

I can well understand why some mainline Protestants would consider converting to Roman Catholicism. The...

January 08, 2016

Should Reading the Bible Feel Like Exercise?

This is not a new thought but it comes up every year when any number...

January 05, 2016

Does InterVarsity Endorse All of Black Lives Matter

The news is fairly stale at this point, but the indicators of support for Black...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

We Are Running Out of Time

And with the end of party season in sight, a warning about crashing and burning...

December 24, 2015

Ready, Set . . .

I sure hope readers haven't been sneaking Christmas carols into Advent. That might be like...

December 22, 2015

Would Muslims Allow This to Happen to Ramadan?

In light of the recent discussions of Muslim-Christian relations, let me add to doubts surrounding...

December 16, 2015

Evangelicalism Lets You Be You

I-told-you-so alert: about a decade ago I wrote a book about evangelical Protestantism that claimed...

December 11, 2015

Why the Bible Trumps Tradition

The Roman Catholic liturgy that Dwight Longenecker advocates is further proof of the Protestant understanding...

December 09, 2015

America Is not My Home (neither is my kitchen)

Two-kingdom theology is a set of reflections on Christian life that distinguishes between the secular...

December 04, 2015

A Christian Way of Governing?

Not if it means another Jimmy Carter, puhleeze! But John-Clark Levin wants more of the...

December 02, 2015

What Does the Bible Have To Do with U.S. Refugee Policy?

While evangelicals debate the biblical imperative to receive refugees from Syria, the logic of admitting...

November 2015

November 24, 2015

Don’t Forget Football

Tracy McKenzie has done some great work in constructing the appropriation of the Pilgrims for...

November 20, 2015

Evangelical, Republican, American

The latest poll confirms a definition of evangelicalism that many people find congenial: The NAE

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