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August 2021

August 17, 2021

Are Complementarians America’s Taliban?

Hard to know whom to believe about conditions in Afghanistan for women. Reporters in the...

May 2020

May 07, 2020

Church Responses to Quarantine

Some favor that churches remain closed. When they do they usually invoke love and the...

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 02, 2020

Rusty Reno Gets Backup From Tim Keller (sort of)

Reno is not happy with how the church in NYC or the Governor of New...

November 2019

November 14, 2019

Why Scholars Rally to Popularizers (and when)

I have already noticed the sort of odd phenomenon of progressive evangelical academics rallying to...

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 10, 2019

Why Dressing for Halloween as a Bible-Carrying, Cis-Gender Kid is Scary

In my quest to rank the significance of modern society's injustices, the question today concerns...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

Lessons from the Bible about Immigration

Here's a passage I have not seen enter discussions about U.S. immigration policy and the...

May 2019

May 10, 2019

Orthodox Presbyterians’ Fifteen Minutes of Infamy

More people enter the conservation room about the ties between conservative Presbyterian theology and anti-semitism...

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 30, 2019

Civil Religion Is a Problem, but Will Biblical Religion Save U.S.?

Some evangelical (ambivalently so) historians, like David Swartz, admire politicians like Jimmy Carter and Mark...

November 2018

November 07, 2018

Birthright Citizenship is Presbyterian, Opposition is Baptist

Learned discussions of whether to grant citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to parents...

July 2018

July 06, 2018

The Attorney General Can’t Use the Bible but Journalists Can

File this one under the category of when journalists and professors appeal to the Bible...

June 2018

June 30, 2018

Civil Religion is a Many Splendored Thing

Joe Carter thinks it is safe to segregate Christianity from American nationalism (on the eve...

October 2017

October 06, 2017

The Greatest Show on Earth

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

April 2017

April 03, 2017

A Hymn for Opening Day

Before Watts and Wesley, Protestants pretty much sang only Psalms. During the 1750s members of...

October 2016

October 07, 2016

Why the Public Schools Need the Bible

If exposed to passages like the following, graduates of public schools would not need trigger...

September 2016

September 15, 2016

Can You Be Progressive and Intolerant?

A theme that goes around in evangelical circles is how born-again Protestants were once on...

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...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

Do Christians Really Support Religious Liberty (part one)?

Russell Moore's recent defense of religious freedom for Muslim Americans reassured many: Does religious liberty...

June 02, 2016

All Ages After the Fall Are Dark

Rodney Stark begins his chapter on the Dark Ages with an important observation: "For many...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Socialized Theological Education

News that Andover Newton Seminary is moving to Yale Divinity School (the theological world's version...

May 20, 2016

Make America Biblical Again

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

May 18, 2016

Give ’em a Square Inch And They Take a Mile

Did you ever wonder why pastors, bishops, and popes think -- despite the specialization and...

May 13, 2016

Why The Bible is Only a Good Book not a Great One

Micah Mattix in a review of Arthur Krystal's new book on the Great Books writes...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Uh Oh, The Moral World Just Got More Complicated

First comes word that Brazilians love the Confederate Flag: If you guessed Santa Barbara D’Oeste,...

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...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

What Questions Should Christians ask of Presidential Candidates?

It was a bit of harmonic convergence that I read in the same day two...

January 08, 2016

Should Reading the Bible Feel Like Exercise?

This is not a new thought but it comes up every year when any number...

December 2015

December 02, 2015

What Does the Bible Have To Do with U.S. Refugee Policy?

While evangelicals debate the biblical imperative to receive refugees from Syria, the logic of admitting...

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