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March 2018

March 30, 2018

If Christmas Is on the Same Day Every Year, Why Not Good Friday?

No one really knows on what day Jesus was born. Many biblical scholars understand inferences...

March 28, 2018

Whatever Is Going on at Willow Creek (?)

Is not good. According to the story at Christianity Today, reports have surfaced that Bill...

March 26, 2018

Never Trump Needs American Greatness

Michael Gerson's piece in the Atlantic on President Trump's appeal to evangelicals is revealing of...

March 21, 2018

Airbrushing Evangelicals

The last time we noticed evangelical spokesmen engaging in nostalgia for a winsome and appealing...

March 20, 2018

Discernment or Gullibility

Mark Hemingway has a positive piece on Russell Moore at The Weekly Standard, the gist...

March 16, 2018

Would You Die for the Nation?

Alasdair MacIntyre complained about the modern nation-state almost 25 years ago in ways that foreshadowed...

March 14, 2018

Billy Graham as Rorschach Test

Some call it confirmation bias, others wishful thinking. Confirmation bias (link is external)occurs from the...

March 12, 2018

How Much do Christians Care about Theology (and should they)?

Massimo Faggioli is a theologian who teaches at Villanova. With a name like that (trigger...

March 01, 2018

Is Billy Graham in Purgatory?

This is not a question that many have seemed to consider since the praise for...

February 2018

February 23, 2018

When Religious Historians Get Religion

Remember the good old days when historicism taught us that fundamentalists were sort of silly...

February 21, 2018

If Evangelicals Voted for Hillary They Would Still be Hypocritical

The daily barrage of outrage over evangelical support for Trump continues. Last week at Time...

February 16, 2018

Is Roman Catholicism Un-American?

Many Protestants until around 1975 thought so. Lyman Beecher, the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe...

February 14, 2018

The Valentine’s Dilemma for Protestants

Lots of Roman Catholic authors are writing about the conflict between Ash Wednesday and Valentine's...

February 09, 2018

Is Calvinism Un-American?

The reason for asking is that Reformed Protestants (the better name for Calvinism) don't believe...

February 07, 2018

What Are the Chances that James Comey Saw “Three Days of the Condor”?

Political and social conservatives in the U.S. constantly lament that the mainstream institutions -- universities,...

February 02, 2018

If Not for Politics, Would Anyone Care about Evangelicalism?

The only reason why anyone who wasn't an evangelical cared was because folks like Jerry...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

Evangelicals and the Vietnam War

The idea that evangelicals support for Donald Trump is an anomaly or a form of...

January 26, 2018

Life is Complicated but Evangelicals are Simple?

People act for a variety of reasons. That includes evangelicals when they vote.

January 23, 2018

Trump is Perfect for Evangelical Political Analysis

Why is it that the critics of evangelicals are as moralistic as Trumpian evangelicals try...

January 22, 2018

What Would Luther Do?

The controversy over the papacy's abduction of a Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, continues and reveals...

January 16, 2018

Why Are Christians Obsessed with Sex?

Some people are worried about Christian/evangelical higher education and think the current climate of gay...

January 13, 2018

Edgardo Mortara

He may not be a familiar name now, though the recent controversy over Pius IX's...

January 11, 2018

American Exceptionalism as Obama Nostalgia

Only a little over three years ago, David Bromwich, who teaches literature at Yale, complained...

January 06, 2018

Thick Roman Catholicism?

What's good for the goose dot dot dot Robert Barron, whose fame came with his...

January 03, 2018

Thick Evangelicalism?

To include a large number of disparate Protestants, you need to overlook important differences —...

December 2017

December 31, 2017

Lord, Teach Us To Number Our Days (but what’s with the helps?)

The following comes from a piece written several years ago, "Life After Christmas," which still...

December 29, 2017

What Christmas Gets Wrong

Generally speaking, Jesus as the baby is a lot more reassuring to most of us...

December 22, 2017

The New Yorker Now Carries Water for New Evangelicalism?

What did Tim Keller know, and when did he know it? That is the question...

December 19, 2017

Evangelicalism Is a Subset of Protestantism

With some born-again Protestants in the United States feeling nervous about evangelicalism as an identity...

December 15, 2017

Proof of American Greatness

Voters do not have to make the kind of political calculations that haunted Europeans. Here...

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