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December 11, 2020

Do Anglicans in N. America Talk Funny?

H. L. Mencken thought that English Protestants used a different vocabulary from their fellow communicants...

November 2020

November 24, 2020

Shocked, Shocked that American Catholics Fund the Vatican

Massimo Faggioli makes it seem that Joe Biden will bring a new or better set...

June 2020

June 18, 2020

Mapping Disease and Religion

FiveThirtyEight carries a story on disease among African-Americans and includes a map of the states...

June 05, 2020

Only the Amish are Amish, (practically) Everyone Else is Modern

The Amish have thick communities in which members are not autonomous but are deeply embedded...

May 2020

May 07, 2020

Church Responses to Quarantine

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

January 2020

January 17, 2020

Still Inadequate

George Weigel has lots of counsel for Roman Catholics in the New Year, especially how...

January 03, 2020

Can We Go Back to Work Yet?

This is a re-post from 2015 but the length of seasons greetings -- from Thanksgiving...

December 2019

December 25, 2019

Shouldn’t Pro-Lifers Celebrate Jesus’ Conception?

The incarnation technically started inside the womb of the Virgin Mary. Indeed, God veiled in...

December 04, 2019

Live by the Polls, Live by the Polls

Once more a defense of evangelicalism by trying to disassociate this form of Protestantism from...

November 2019

November 26, 2019

Why Do Southern Baptists Care about Sideline Presbyterians?

Something odd happened on social media. Beth Moore tweeted this: Apparently, she did not realize...

November 08, 2019

If You Don’t Want to be An Evangelical, Become a Protestant

I am not sure if any form of Protestantism will satisfy #Exvangelicals, aside from mainline...

September 2019

September 24, 2019

If Baptist or Episcopalian, Why be Evangelical?

Alan Jacobs uses Tommie Kidd's latest book on evangelicalism to explain to Atlantic readers what...

August 2019

August 15, 2019

What Hath the Great Commission To Do with Renaissance Humanism?

As faculty and students are gearing up for another year of college, those in higher...

July 2019

July 17, 2019

Religion Unregulated

If you walk into the main book browsing area in Harvard Coop (as in oops)...

July 12, 2019

Clarity on Presbyterian Combativeness

Some folks in the Reformed tradition do not care for the theological debates and divisions...

July 02, 2019

That Feeling when Academic Historians Get Ordained to the Ministry

These reflections come in the context of finishing a manuscript on the spiritual life of...

June 2019

June 27, 2019

Not “Who’s an Evangelical” but “Who’s a Presbyterian”

This is a follow-up to the previous post about the Presbyterian Church in America leaving...

June 25, 2019

Neither Eighty-One nor Nineteen Percent

While evangelical historians continue to lament the majority of born-again Protestants who voted for President...

June 07, 2019

Nicism

Just when Sohrab Ahmari's take down of David French-ism has almost expired, Jared Wilson decides...

May 2019

May 30, 2019

What Sohrab Ahmari Doesn’t Understand about Evangelicals and Conservatism

The essay at First Things by Sohrab Ahmari against National Review's David French may be...

May 14, 2019

#Woke Evangelical Timeline

Jemar Tisby has a new book out contending that the history of the church's complicity...

May 01, 2019

All of Me or Hyphenated Me

I have a friend who is of Polish and Italian descent but his father is...

April 2019

April 01, 2019

Being Reformed is Hard (and so few have tried it)

They asked and I accepted. Christian History Institute requested an essay about John Williamson Nevin,...

March 2019

March 06, 2019

Radical Christianity and Christian Culture

Some Christians are uncomfortable either with their world or their place in it. The rise...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

Evangelical Historians’ Distribution Problem

Not too long ago, a number of evangelical historians raised questions about how to reach...

December 14, 2018

Roman Catholic Exceptionalism

After reading Rusty Reno's relatively recent laments about sanctity among Roman Catholic clergy (and the...

December 06, 2018

What if Christians in the U.S. Sounded Like Jewish Americans?

Take for instance the recent review essay in the New York Times of books on...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

If Cats Declare the Glory of God, Why not Unregenerate Truck Drivers?

Joe Carter thinks that after 500 years, Protestants are finally understanding vocation: While vocation is...

August 2018

August 24, 2018

Second-Class Christians

This was one of the first times I've seen a recognition that Protestants are indeed...

August 22, 2018

Theological Dark Web

If the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) is a thing, is it possible that it has...

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