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Church Responses to Quarantine

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

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April 24, 2020

Resistance Theory for a Global Pandemic

Protestants have a long history of resisting tyrannical governments. It was partly a function of...

December 2019

December 24, 2019

Would You Treat a Colleague This Way?

If you are working with someone, and especially if you are friendly, chances are you...

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 17, 2019

Baptize them All, Roman Empire, the United States, and Every Government in Between

What follows is a review essay from 2011 of two books on religion and politics,...

April 2019

April 16, 2019

What about “Their” Lady?

The fire in Paris and damage to Notre Dame is, it goes without saying, awful....

April 11, 2019

Pope to Protestants – Epic Fail (or not)

Benedict XVI, the pope who resigned in 2014, has written an essay on the sexual...

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...

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...

October 2017

October 05, 2017

If You Read with the Church, May you Blog Alone?

Rare is the ill will coming from either side of the Tiber in this year...

April 2017

April 18, 2017

When it Comes to Denying Truth, Forget Foucault and Rorty but Remember Falwell

Molly Worthen heaps scorn on the evangelicals who voted for Trump by blaming our post-truth...

May 2016

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...

December 2015

December 11, 2015

Why the Bible Trumps Tradition

The Roman Catholic liturgy that Dwight Longenecker advocates is further proof of the Protestant understanding...

September 2015

September 17, 2015

Why Isn’t Psychology Good Enough?

Some folks here are aware of the controversy surrounding Doug Wilson and Christ's Church in...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

Isn’t the Gospel of Matthew in the Douay Bible?

Mark Shea tries to show the superiority of Roman Catholics to Protestants by arguing that...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

One Thing Everyone Should Know about Sola Scriptura

Father Dwight Longenecker takes a shot at Protestant conceptions of Scripture with his ten points...

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