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November 2018

November 14, 2018

When Pastors Won’t Stay in the Pocket

Once upon a time, Protestant congregations had pulpits. This was a form of church furniture,...

November 12, 2018

Teaching the Integration of Church and State while Teaching the Separation of Church and State

John Allen, one of the best Roman Catholic journalists covering the Vatican, called it "Weird...

November 08, 2018

Does Place Matter More than Faith?

At the beginning of this week, John Fea posted several key races in state and...

November 07, 2018

Birthright Citizenship is Presbyterian, Opposition is Baptist

Learned discussions of whether to grant citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to parents...

November 02, 2018

Get Rid of the National Anthem?

The antidote to the controversy over NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem may actually...

October 2018

October 12, 2018

Fellowship with Fellow Historians

Call me grumpy, call me a naysayer, or call me a Reformed Protestant (read Calvinist)....

October 11, 2018

Did Greg Laurie Take a Seminar on Colonial American Religion in the 1980s?

John Fea thinks Greg Laurie, the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship who spoke at...

October 04, 2018

Worship as Homeroom

A golden oldie from Recovering Mother Kirk: The strategy of many churches that want to...

October 02, 2018

Before Kavanaugh, Mencken

White men can become toxic for different reasons. Once it happens, it's almost impossible to...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

If Cats Declare the Glory of God, Why not Unregenerate Truck Drivers?

Joe Carter thinks that after 500 years, Protestants are finally understanding vocation: While vocation is...

September 26, 2018

Doubts about One Accuser, Credibility for Another

What would happen if the reporters and editors at Time were as hard on Christine...

September 21, 2018

Protestantism as Chopped Liver

An editorial at Commonweal Magazine responds to Damon Linker's exit from the Roman Catholic Church...

September 19, 2018

Is American Roman Catholicism Roman Catholic

Massimo Faggioli, who teaches theology at Villanova, is always provocative even if you don't agree....

September 13, 2018

How Shall They Hear or How Shall They Taste?

Now seems to be one of those teaching moments about the Reformation. Despite celebrations and...

September 11, 2018

If We May Say God Bless, What about God D—?

On the anniversary of 9-11, comes below a piece written shortly after the attack in...

September 06, 2018

Why Roman Catholicism is Special

In response to the current crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, a priest in Santa...

September 04, 2018

How Much Does Doctrine Matter?

For Damon Linker, what convinced him to become Roman Catholic was not doctrine but beauty....

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Does Religion Drive Politics or Vice Versa?

Looks to me like politics is a bigger influence on religion than Christians transforming culture....

August 29, 2018

A Fleet or Two Ships Passing in the Night

David French at National Review argues that Protestants have a stake in the sex scandal...

August 24, 2018

Second-Class Christians

This was one of the first times I've seen a recognition that Protestants are indeed...

August 22, 2018

Theological Dark Web

If the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) is a thing, is it possible that it has...

August 20, 2018

Why No Roman Catholic Conversions to Protestant Churches?

With the release of Pope Francis' letter in support of the victims of sexual abuse...

August 17, 2018

Does Roman Catholicism Need a Theory Now?

The release of a new book (by me) on the value of the Protestant Reformation...

August 16, 2018

Remember When Evangelicals Refused to Support Rudy Giuliani?

For some reason, I had occasion recently to come back to a piece on the...

August 13, 2018

Why Can’t Progressives Make Up Their Minds?

Another odd aspect of President Obama's speech in South Africa was his conflicting rhetoric about...

August 10, 2018

When Wealth Makes You Uncomfortable (or when it doesn’t)

A few weeks ago, President Obama spoke in South Africa and made a surprising admission:...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

Sometimes You Leave, Other Times You Stay (in Evangelicalism)

If you are an evangelical, all that is required is being born-again, having that come-to-Jesus...

July 25, 2018

Oregon Before Portlandia

The missus and I just finished another very good Netflix documentary, Wild Wild Country, about...

July 23, 2018

What if Politics Explains the Eighty-One Percent Better than Faith?

What if the evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump are something other than simply being...

July 18, 2018

Christian Agnosticism

A common refrain in evangelical higher education for the last thirty years has been that...

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