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October 2016

October 11, 2016

What Would Donald Trump Say about Beyonce?

One could well imagine. And if the comments came in a locker room setting, the...

September 2016

September 13, 2016

What Historical Perspective Looks Like

I know I've given evangelical historians a bit of grief for opposing Donald Trump (opposition...

September 08, 2016

The Temptation of Raising the Stakes

Don't do it! Christians who write about politics and culture are in the habit of...

September 01, 2016

Lost In Trespasses and Sins

Is she describing Donald Trump or President Obama? I get Evangelicals, those hard-working, hard-loving, hard...

August 2016

August 24, 2016

What is the Shelf-Life on Memory?

Are Europeans in the EU allowed to remember Europe's Christendom past? Are Armenians allowed to...

August 02, 2016

What Must Evangelicals Do To Be Saved (from Donald Trump)?

Don't do what some Roman Catholics advocate: We attend a special Rosary group when we...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Evangelical Piety Trumps History

Readers beware: more about evangelical historians and what they talk about (though Trump is coming)....

July 26, 2016

History as Seeing What You Want To

As evangelical historians discuss the merits of regular historians' opposition to Donald Trump, another religious...

July 21, 2016

Turkish Historians Matter

Yes, this has lodged in my craw but I continue to be fascinated and a...

July 19, 2016

Did Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter Make the Crooked Places Straight for Donald Trump?

A few years ago, Americans watched a protest movement take shape designed at getting rid...

July 01, 2016

What Does Faith Have to do with Citizenship?

Michael Gerson thinks evangelicals have lost their faith in signing up to support Trump (via...

June 2016

June 16, 2016

Make America Great Again

Walter McDougal explains what -- trigger warning -- the Founders understood by American greatness: When...

June 08, 2016

Evangelicals Have Painted Themselves Morally Into the Corner

Michael Gerson joins the chorus of evangelicals who repudiate Donald Trump: Support for Trump involves...

May 2016

May 20, 2016

Make America Biblical Again

Not too long ago I called attention to the tendency of evangelical historians to criticize...

May 11, 2016

America First

Don't let all that prejudice against Donald Trump get in the way of understanding an...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Would Randy Have John’s Back on Jim?

Jim Wallis that is. Truth be told, I am a historian with certain religious and...

April 07, 2016

Can Guys Who Look at Porn Be Victims Too?

Has the desire not to be Donald Trump become so pronounced that anti-Trump Christians are...

March 2016

March 31, 2016

After Trump Can Social Scientists Still Talk about Evangelicalism as a Bloc of Voters (with a straight face)?

Lydia Bean and Steven Teles are nostalgic for an evangelical constituency in which spokesmen and...

March 30, 2016

Evangelicalism’s Pietist Roots

Chris Gehrz is correct to offer the badge "pietism" as an alternative to evangelicalism, which...

March 25, 2016

First Billy Sunday, Now Joel Osteen

Those are just a few of the comparisons that observers are drawing about Donald Trump....

March 09, 2016

Less Hypocritical Than Thou

Randall Balmer isn't at all surprised by evangelicals' support for Trump. Evangelicals, he says, are...

March 02, 2016

Why Can’t Evangelicals Have a Persecution Complex?

Randall Stephens makes a decent case for the origins of the evangelical persecution complex: Conservative...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Does Support for Trump Increase as Biblical Authority Declines?

Some pundits are scratching their heads over evangelical support for Trump: Evangelicals have for decades...

February 05, 2016

Why Do Evangelicals Outside the U.S. Sound Like the U.S. Reporters at CNN?

Over at Sojourners (via John Fea) Wes Granburg-Michaelson, the former General Secretary of the Reformed...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

Jerry Falwell’s Support for Donald Trump is Smarter than You Think

In fact, Falwell's endorsement of Trump goes in exactly the right direction, as opposed to...

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