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January 04, 2022

Maybe Dr. DuMez Has a Point

But perhaps white evangelical misogyny and masculinism is really a symptom of being American, not...

May 2021

May 21, 2021

Is David French the Best Judge of America?

David French writes a weekly column at The Dispatch. Since he is an outspokenly evangelical...

March 2021

March 05, 2021

Was America Founded A Roman Catholic Country? (with a Spanish accent)

The previous post included the observation that tracing the United States' roots to a Christian...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

Was America Founded A Roman Catholic Country?

I appreciate Jeff Polet's point about the problems of talking about an American Founding: A...

February 04, 2021

When Roman Catholics Feel a Little Protestant (and even Trumpy)

Many have faulted former President Trump's 1776 Commission for not being historical and not even...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

How the Vandals became Christian

This is not about Germanic tribes after the Christianization of the Roman Empire. It is...

June 26, 2020

The People Who Support and Erect Monuments

They may be your and my neighbors. One of the themes that emerged in the...

June 24, 2020

Where to Put the Theodore Roosevelt Statue

Not there! New York City's Natural History Museum, with the blessing of Mayor Bill DeBlasio,...

May 2020

May 20, 2020

How Weird is Episcopacy?

The piece by Tara Isabella Burton in the New York Times on weird Christianity is...

May 15, 2020

Where Integralists (Vermeule) and Americans (Linker) Agree (with Douthat to the rescue)

(For some background on intergralism vs. liberalism, see this and the links included.) Rod Dreher...

April 2020

April 17, 2020

Pastors as Prophets to the Holy Nation

Why do pastors, Roman Catholic or Protestant, think they may legitimately pontificate -- no pun...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Worries about the Imperial Presidency are Not New

Some think that defenders of President Trump's dealings with Ukraine are a threat to the...

December 2019

December 25, 2019

It’s a Long Season

For anyone who tires of the pop singers crooning about Our Lord, the sales, the...

November 2019

November 28, 2019

At Least Thanksgiving is not a Partisan Issue (the way it was with the New Deal)

Josh Zeitz explains (did so even before Hillary versus Donald): The president did it again....

October 2019

October 11, 2019

Tribal Sovereignty Day?

Americans struggle with history. The day normally allotted to Christopher Columbus is on the horizon...

August 2019

August 20, 2019

Religion that Helps Cities and Hurts Churches

In New York City, pastors like Tim Keller and philanthropy consultants have this idea that...

August 16, 2019

Race, Climate, Headlines

Even as the New York Times is launching coverage of slavery's influence on North American...

August 08, 2019

If the Separation of Church and State is Christian, Isn’t Support for Separation of Church and State Christian Nationalism?

Does Christian nationalism come in only one flavor? According to the signers of Christians Against...

July 2019

July 12, 2019

Clarity on Presbyterian Combativeness

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

May 2019

May 24, 2019

What If American Wars Had Turned Out Differently?

From a review of Michael Kazin's War against War: The American Fight for Peace: Kazin...

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...

March 2019

March 11, 2019

Moral Equivocation with Trump and Lincoln

Michael Sean Winters comes out hard against the contested comments of Ilhan Omar about Israel...

February 2019

February 12, 2019

If Abraham Lincoln were Donald Trump

We might not have apotheosized the POTUS. We might have regarded them as real life...

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 21, 2018

Michael Gerson’s Hypocrisy

When will John Fea turn from David Barton to Michael Gerson? The column about the...

November 08, 2018

Does Place Matter More than Faith?

At the beginning of this week, John Fea posted several key races in state and...

November 02, 2018

Get Rid of the National Anthem?

The antidote to the controversy over NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem may actually...

October 2018

October 11, 2018

Did Greg Laurie Take a Seminar on Colonial American Religion in the 1980s?

John Fea thinks Greg Laurie, the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship who spoke at...

September 2018

September 11, 2018

If We May Say God Bless, What about God D—?

On the anniversary of 9-11, comes below a piece written shortly after the attack in...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Does Religion Drive Politics or Vice Versa?

Looks to me like politics is a bigger influence on religion than Christians transforming culture....

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