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March 2019

March 04, 2019

Nicene Creed without Passive Voice

I teach at an institution where we try to give instruction in good writing across...

March 01, 2019

More Outlets Doesn’t Mean More Readers (or Listeners)

Chris Gehrz makes a case for historians producing podcasts as a way of reaching a...

February 2019

February 22, 2019

What’s Good for Lincoln Is Good for Washington

Today is the anniversary of George Washington's birthday, a holiday that became collapsed with Lincoln's...

February 15, 2019

Even A Liberal Theocracy is Still Theocratic

Alan Cross has to assert several times that in arguing for Christian involvement in politics,...

February 12, 2019

If Abraham Lincoln were Donald Trump

We might not have apotheosized the POTUS. We might have regarded them as real life...

February 06, 2019

Pay, Pray, and Obey is No Longer the Laity’s Paygrade

One of the best books never read was Garry Wills' Politics and Catholic Freedom. This...

January 2019

January 30, 2019

Civil Religion Is a Problem, but Will Biblical Religion Save U.S.?

Some evangelical (ambivalently so) historians, like David Swartz, admire politicians like Jimmy Carter and Mark...

January 29, 2019

Evangelicalism’s Border Walls

A stray book review in need of a home landed in my in-box. Evangelicals in...

January 25, 2019

The Worse it Gets, the More Attractive?

I would have thought that the recent scandals among Rome's bishops would diminish some of...

January 21, 2019

Nathan Glazer

Over the weekend one of the prominent New York neo-conservative intellectuals, the sociologist, Nathan Glazer...

January 16, 2019

Skin in the Scholarly Game

I, just like John Fea, thought the Bruce Springsteen Broadway show was terrific, and I...

January 11, 2019

Secular Universities Now As Religious as Puritan Harvard

How's that for click-bait? But if you thought today's universities was filled either with secularist...

January 10, 2019

If Phillis Wheatley was an Evangelical in 2018, Is She Still Evangelical in 2019?

By now the debate about evangelicalism has petered out. (For background, see these posts.) But...

January 07, 2019

Social Justice and the Problem of Evil

Why is it that when many Christians talk about the systemic nature of social injustice,...

January 04, 2019

Imagine if They Gave to Missions and Church Planting

Emma Green has a piece on a shift among evangelical philanthropists for which many should...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

Evangelical Historians’ Distribution Problem

Not too long ago, a number of evangelical historians raised questions about how to reach...

December 19, 2018

Was Phillis Wheatley an Evangelical? (Kidd vs. Merritt part 2)

In part one I generally took Tommie Kidd's side on the question of who gets...

December 18, 2018

Kidd vs. Merritt and Why Journalists Don’t Teach Foreign Policy

John Fea has the details of an exchange on Twitter between Tommie Kidd and Jonathan...

December 14, 2018

Roman Catholic Exceptionalism

After reading Rusty Reno's relatively recent laments about sanctity among Roman Catholic clergy (and the...

December 13, 2018

The Problem with History

Historians are an insecure lot and all the more so with recent developments. First came...

December 10, 2018

Were the Angels and Shepherds Wrong not to Venerate Mary?

Roman Catholics recently (Dec. 5 8) celebrated or observed (or marked) The Feast of the...

December 07, 2018

I Would Rather be Treated by a Smart Turk than an Untrained Christian

Some dispute that Martin Luther ever said that he would rather be ruled by a...

December 06, 2018

What if Christians in the U.S. Sounded Like Jewish Americans?

Take for instance the recent review essay in the New York Times of books on...

December 03, 2018

No Gospel without Social Injustice

I keep seeing posts or tweets that suggest or even insist that Christianity is 100%...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Great Historian, Pretty Good Awakening

A good friend and great colleague in the study of U.S. history, Leo Ribuffo, has...

November 28, 2018

Are Protestants who Convert Christians before Conversion?

Matthew Schmitz must be a terrific poker player. At a time when the reasons for...

November 26, 2018

Is Evangelical the Only Kind of Protestant?

Roger Olson observes that the current critics of evangelicalism, the so-called voices from the margins,...

November 21, 2018

Michael Gerson’s Hypocrisy

When will John Fea turn from David Barton to Michael Gerson? The column about the...

November 19, 2018

How Big is the Current Crisis for Roman Catholics?

On the one hand, the further revelations of cases of sexual abuse and episcopal cover-up...

November 16, 2018

Non-Partisan Social Justice

Lots of Christians talk about social justice but what are they doing besides giving speeches,...

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