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May 2017

May 26, 2017

Evangelicals Showed How Tolerant They Are by Voting for Donald Trump

Anyway, why can't you look at the results of the 2016 election and read it...

May 24, 2017

A Threat to Democracy

Is it more likely to come from the evangelicals who voted for Trump or from...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Advice for Russell Moore — Don’t Take Any from Sarah Posner

In the ongoing effort by journalists to discredit President Trump (I actually think he has...

March 24, 2017

If You Hate Living with the South, then Why Didn’t You Let Them Go?

The ill will President Trump taps. Just when you thought that nationalism and Brexit and...

March 17, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried About America Before the Election (part 4)

Christopher Lasch, a gifted intellectual historian, perhaps best remembered for supplying President Jimmy Carter with...

March 02, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried About America Before the Election (part 3)

The reason is that we were reading Wendell Berry (at least) thirty years ago: The...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried about America Before the Election (part 2)

Dwight Macdonald, a mid-twentieth century Marxist critic who wrote for the New Yorker, New York...

February 03, 2017

Can We Have a National Conversation about Decency?

Today seems about as good as any to raise the question of national standards of...

February 02, 2017

Living in TV Reality

I have often wondered what the nature of national sovereignty was like under Soviet Communism....

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Remember When Separatism was so Fundamentalist?

Back in the day (and in grad school while studying the history of American evangelicalism),...

January 24, 2017

If Caitlyn Jenner is Normal, Why Can’t Donald Trump Be?

Imagine if elite journalists covered Donald Trump the way they did Caitlyn Jenner. Here's one...

January 20, 2017

A Good Day to Remember that America is not my Entire Identity

Although I didn't need Donald Trump to remind me. As someone who has a life...

January 18, 2017

Trump Makes It Okay to Talk about the Graham Family’s Dark Side

Just when you thought it was safe to pick up a newspaper, out comes the...

January 12, 2017

It All Comes Down to Sex

A story on president-elect Trump's "extreme" policies included this fear-mongering observation about a charter school...

January 06, 2017

Is Jonathan Merritt a Reporter or Church Growth Consultant?

Journalists have had some 'splainin' to do of late after the presidential contest, accusations of...

January 05, 2017

2016 In Review: Technology

Dave Barry showed the sort of humor that so escaped many full-time journalists, but his...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

The Big Story of 2016 – The Moral Majority Is Alive

The following reaction to Donald Trump's victory is a little dated, but it does illustrate...

December 28, 2016

Fake News, Fake Narratives

Americans have heard a lot about the dangers of fake news of late and before...

December 20, 2016

Scholarly Trigger Warnings

Readers of the historiography of religion in the United States might have sensed a cultural...

December 12, 2016

Is This How Paul Prayed for Nero?

Here's how Paul instructed Timothy: First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions,...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Didn’t Jesus Hang Around with Tax Collectors (and Real Estate Developers)?

Then why do Tony Campolo and Shane Claibornethink that followers of Jesus would repudiate Donald...

November 23, 2016

Three Matters for Which to Be Thankful

1) The best Thanksgiving movie out there may be For Your Consideration. It is another...

November 22, 2016

What You Overlook When You Like a POTUS

The current cast of Hamilton may be worried about President-elect Trump and Vice-president elect Pence,...

November 18, 2016

Scholarship In Black and White

I think I understand the concerns that many Americans have about the president-elect. I have...

November 15, 2016

Didn’t Evangelicals Vote Overwhelmingly for George W. Bush?

So what's so bad about voting for Donald Trump? Katelyn Beaty explains: This election, I...

November 10, 2016

They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Vote?

Some of us two-kingdom Protestants have been arguing for a while that an approach to...

November 09, 2016

American Dream or Gypsy Curse

Any child in the United States can grow up to be president of the nation....

November 07, 2016

How to Make America Great: Let Congress Elect POTUS

Imagine the savings if we didn't pump almost two years of political contributions into presidential...

October 2016

October 29, 2016

Why Don’t Evangelical Scholars Remember Nixon?

I do understand the disgust over Donald Trump, though I find it a tad inconsistent...

October 27, 2016

Speak Truth to Lena Dunham

The news of Donald Trump's vulgar comments is a little stale but criticisms of the...

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