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May 2018

May 15, 2018

If Politics Undermines Theology, Why Is Your Theological Affirmation So Political?

Yet another evangelical statement is seeking signatures. Reclaiming Jesus is a "Confession in a Time...

May 10, 2018

Damned If You Scold, Damned If You Don’t

John Fea reminds (as is his wont) of the hypocrisy of evangelical Trump supporters, this...

May 01, 2018

In 2008 Hillary Clinton Would Have Received Less than 19%

A dip into an older book of mine for a Sunday school lesson last week...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

Another Take on the EIGHTY-ONE PERCENT

Sometimes the explanations of the number of evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump comes across...

April 20, 2018

Deconstructing or Condemning Evangelicalism

As a historian and believer keenly aware of the gap between my own convictions, Reformed...

April 09, 2018

New Calvinists and Red Letter Christians Together

The Gospel Coalition held a conference to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

March 2018

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...

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 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 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 11, 2018

American Exceptionalism as Obama Nostalgia

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

January 03, 2018

Thick Evangelicalism?

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

December 2017

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...

December 13, 2017

Rubbing Evangelicals’ Nose in It

Some folks are taking the Alabama Senate election results as another way to damage evangelicals'...

November 2017

November 10, 2017

Wait, Now We Want Religion in the Pulpit?

I continue to be amazed by the positions to which anti-Trumpism leads. Now it seems...

October 2017

October 20, 2017

With Obama Christmas was Merry?

Jamie Smith has a mildly clever take on President Trump's comments about Christmas greetings. To...

October 10, 2017

They Will Know We are Christians by Our Condemnation

Jemar Tisby writes at CNN about Vice President Pence's allegedly outrageous behavior at the Indianapolis...

October 06, 2017

The Greatest Show on Earth

I was catching up on Bloggingheads TV podcasts this morning and heard Robert Wright (around...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Will Liberal Protestants Squander their Moral Authority by Opposing Trump?

If you can believe it, the columns that underline evangelical hypocrisy for supporting the POTUS...

August 22, 2017

Evangelicals Took Faith Too Seriously

Mark Lilla's new book, The Once and Future Liberal, is gaining some attention as one...

August 17, 2017

Forget about 81%, Think about 1997

Two decades ago, Christine Leigh Heyrman won the Bancroft Prize (the prestigious annual book award...

August 15, 2017

Look How Tim Keller and Donald Trump Agree

Are Americans more prone to believe that Keller or Trump is sincere? And are Christians...

July 2017

July 26, 2017

Politics is What White (and many Black) Protestants Do

Why is this so hard? Historians who study religion are falling all over themselves to...

July 11, 2017

First the South Was Toxic, Now the West

Staying on the right side of history is tricky in these fast changing times. Back...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

Shouldn’t Implicit Bias Make a View of the World Go Away

For the last three decades at least (thanks perhaps to Francis Schaeffer and Reformed Protestant...

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