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October 2019

October 02, 2019

If You Love Karen Swallow Prior, Can You Find a Little for Her Boss?

Jerry Falwell, Jr.'s reputation only grows larger in proportion to Donald Trump's critics' need to...

September 2019

September 11, 2019

Why Are “Liberals” So Insecure that They Need the Times’ Green Light to Dump on Conservatives?

The New York Times' poor driving skills have already caught my attention and are now...

September 06, 2019

Trump is the POTUS that HBO Subscribers Deserve

I am still having trouble wrapping my mind around the very high moral standards that...

August 2019

August 08, 2019

If the Separation of Church and State is Christian, Isn’t Support for Separation of Church and State Christian Nationalism?

Does Christian nationalism come in only one flavor? According to the signers of Christians Against...

July 2019

July 31, 2019

Make Baltimore Great Again

Actually, the city that has contributed more to national culture than many natives realize --...

July 18, 2019

Trump May Be the Least of Evangelicals’ Troubles

If I had a dime for every article or post since 2016 by an evangelical...

June 2019

June 07, 2019

Nicism

Just when Sohrab Ahmari's take down of David French-ism has almost expired, Jared Wilson decides...

June 04, 2019

All the News That’s Civil

In 1977 the magazine, Christianity Today, the flagship publication for movement evangelicalism, relocated from Washington,...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

The NHL, Evangelicals, and POTUS

In light of last night's first game in the Stanley Cup between Boston and St....

April 2019

April 22, 2019

The Good (Tiger), the Bad (Kate), and the Ugly (Pence)

H. L. Mencken defined Puritanism as the "haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy."...

April 05, 2019

The Gospel Coalition’s Fine Line of Moderation

The gospel allies ran a successful conference, according to some observers: 1. The Gospel Coalition...

March 2019

March 27, 2019

Evangelical Politics: Same As it Ever Was

Jemar Tisby repeats the refrain that white evangelicals who support President Trump are hypocritical: In...

March 25, 2019

The Difference a Degree Makes

People with Ph.D.s do not make a lot of money and the perks of teaching...

March 11, 2019

Moral Equivocation with Trump and Lincoln

Michael Sean Winters comes out hard against the contested comments of Ilhan Omar about Israel...

March 08, 2019

Semioticians All

When I was in college, I studied film and took a few classes in film...

February 2019

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,...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

Evangelicalism’s Border Walls

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

January 16, 2019

Skin in the Scholarly Game

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

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,...

December 2018

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 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...

August 2018

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...

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 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 12, 2018

If Error Had No Rights, Donald Trump Wouldn’t Be President

On this morning's walk when I usually converse with the missus, her bad back forced...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

Evangelicalism and Tribalism

Here is a thought experiment for those who think the evangelicals who voted for Trump...

June 15, 2018

If You Think Vice President Pence is Bad, Have You Considered Henry VIII?

Mike Pence is a follower of the Billy Graham Rule, the one where a married...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

Has President Trump Turned Evangelicals (the 19%) into Fundamentalists?

Last week I had a brief exchange with Heath Carter about the limitations of George...

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