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February 2021

February 04, 2021

When Roman Catholics Feel a Little Protestant (and even Trumpy)

Many have faulted former President Trump's 1776 Commission for not being historical and not even...

January 2021

January 15, 2021

What if Christianity is Not Reasonable?

During the era of Trump, lots of evangelical thought leaders have indicated they are not...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

Fundamentalists and Evangelicals as Outsiders

I did not know it was acceptable to otherize another group but John Fea does...

October 2020

October 20, 2020

Politics and not Religion

What if economics and geography matter more than religion for electoral outcomes? Ken Woodward discussed...

September 2020

September 07, 2020

Jerry Falwell Jr., We Never Knew You

Not that the former president of Liberty University didn't make for some titillating headlines, but...

September 01, 2020

The Meaning of the Jerry Falwell, Jr. Scandal

Some observers of evangelicalism are obsessed with Falwell, in part seemingly because he is another...

July 2020

July 09, 2020

How Evangelicals Can Vote for Joe Biden this November (if the governors let them)

Recent protests along with some of the demands of protesters, no matter how peaceful, may...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

How the Vandals became Christian

This is not about Germanic tribes after the Christianization of the Roman Empire. It is...

June 05, 2020

Only the Amish are Amish, (practically) Everyone Else is Modern

The Amish have thick communities in which members are not autonomous but are deeply embedded...

May 2020

May 28, 2020

David French Must Have Jonah Goldberg Scratching His Head

French and Goldberg used to write for National Review but recently moved to an outlet...

May 21, 2020

I Just Wish Evangelicals Were Consistent

First, they rejected business: Finney preached even more explicitly against the mores of business. “The...

May 20, 2020

How Weird is Episcopacy?

The piece by Tara Isabella Burton in the New York Times on weird Christianity is...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

David French Has a Theonomy Problem

At the risk of seeming obsessive, a little more attention to David French's political judgments...

April 20, 2020

What if POTUS Were a Drag Queen?

How righteous does David French think he is? Apparently, sufficiently so to question the character...

April 13, 2020

Pandemic Politics Before COVID-19

"Will I be infected by the virus?" is a question that guides most evangelical arguments...

April 03, 2020

Who Benefits when Evangelicals Publicly Ridicule Other Evangelicals?

Jonathan Merritt thought the readers of the Daily Beast needed to know how bigoted Franklin...

March 2020

March 18, 2020

Evangelical Hypocrisy Deepens

By now, the number of people who know about American evangelicals' hypocrisy in voting for...

March 16, 2020

Can You Change Evangelicalism’s Spots after Billy Graham?

Here is part of my review of Thomas Kidd's new book Who Is An Evangelical?...

March 11, 2020

A Pro-Life Social Imaginary – What To Do with New York City?

Karen Swallow Prior makes the useful point that defending unborn children is bigger than electoral...

February 2020

February 24, 2020

Increasing Subscriptions by Doing Good

I recently received this email message from Nikole Hannah-Jones. I don't believe she sent it...

February 12, 2020

Courage in the Age of Trump

Peter Wehner continues his opposition to the president by praising Mitt Romney's vote to convict...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Worries about the Imperial Presidency are Not New

Some think that defenders of President Trump's dealings with Ukraine are a threat to the...

January 24, 2020

Exvangelicals before Exvangelicals

In 2016 lots of evangelicals voted for Donald Trump -- I've heard EIGHTY-ONE PERCENT!!! did....

January 21, 2020

When Racism Changed

In previous posts I have wondered about heightened attention to racism in the United States....

January 07, 2020

What Evangelical Elites Could Learn from the World of Real Elitism

Imagine the editor of a major magazine running a column that aims multiple layers of...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

A Quick Guide to Evangelical Elites

Wayne Grudem is not one: I am guessing a lot of my readers have never...

December 04, 2019

Live by the Polls, Live by the Polls

Once more a defense of evangelicalism by trying to disassociate this form of Protestantism from...

November 2019

November 28, 2019

At Least Thanksgiving is not a Partisan Issue (the way it was with the New Deal)

Josh Zeitz explains (did so even before Hillary versus Donald): The president did it again....

October 2019

October 30, 2019

Was John MacArthur Channeling His Inner Aimee Byrd?

John MacArthur is taking flack for disparaging remarks about Beth Moore. As Mark Galli observed...

October 25, 2019

What Should Evangelicals Say about Independence for California (I mean Catalonia)?

And now for something completely different, evangelicals in Spain are not in the habit of...

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