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Keeping Justice and Forgiveness Straight

The Democratic nominee in New York's fourteenth congressional district, Alexandrio Ocasio-Cortez, would have her possible...

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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...

June 15, 2018

If You Think Vice President Pence is Bad, Have You Considered Henry VIII?

Mike Pence is a follower of the Billy Graham Rule, the one where a married...

June 06, 2018

Moral Clarity Is Over-Rated

Justin Taylor recalls the prayer that FDR prayed on D-Day seventy years ago: Almighty God:...

March 2018

March 21, 2018

Airbrushing Evangelicals

The last time we noticed evangelical spokesmen engaging in nostalgia for a winsome and appealing...

March 16, 2018

Would You Die for the Nation?

Alasdair MacIntyre complained about the modern nation-state almost 25 years ago in ways that foreshadowed...

December 2017

December 15, 2017

Proof of American Greatness

Voters do not have to make the kind of political calculations that haunted Europeans. Here...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

The Protestant Crisis That Is Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism is not a church. It's a movement, sort of like being a Yankee's fan....

October 2017

October 20, 2017

With Obama Christmas was Merry?

Jamie Smith has a mildly clever take on President Trump's comments about Christmas greetings. To...

July 2017

July 04, 2017

What Patriotism Isn’t

Sean Michael Winters corrects against two popular errors. The first is to blame America: The...

June 2017

June 09, 2017

Not Everyone Loves Niebuhr

I for one think Christians should be wary of cheering for fellow Christians in public...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

Would We Know as Much about Evangelicals if Not for the Religious Right?

If evangelicals were not political would they generate any more attention than the Amish?

April 20, 2017

What You Give Up To Fit In

America is the land of the free but liberty comes with its limits. Protestants can't...

February 2017

February 07, 2017

How Many Times Can the U.S. Lose Its Innocence?

One of my favorite books in grad school was Henry F. May's The End of...

February 02, 2017

Living in TV Reality

I have often wondered what the nature of national sovereignty was like under Soviet Communism....

November 2016

November 23, 2016

Three Matters for Which to Be Thankful

1) The best Thanksgiving movie out there may be For Your Consideration. It is another...

October 2016

October 22, 2016

Let George Washington Be George Washington

Why do American Christians -- used to be mainly Protestants but now Roman Catholics are...

October 05, 2016

President Obama is the Most Christian President Ever

Okay, maybe "ever" is too strong. But if you read his remarks when welcoming Pope...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

Islamic Exceptionalism

Ever since visiting Turkey I have been fascinated by the interaction between Islam and the...

August 22, 2016

Christian Intellectuals Are Overrated

Alan Jacob's Harper's piece on the evaporation of Christian intellectuals and his subsequent exchange with...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

Gospel Songs Are Patriotic Too

It's hard to believe only a week ago bloggers were talking about patriotism and the...

June 2016

June 16, 2016

Make America Great Again

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

May 2016

May 11, 2016

America First

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

April 2016

April 20, 2016

Thinking Christianly or Constitutionally

In a review of John Wilsey's new book, American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion, Richard Gamble...

April 14, 2016

Evangelical Chicken and GOP Egg

Which came first? Evangelicalism or Republicanism? You hear a lot from evangelicals who have been...

March 2016

March 09, 2016

Less Hypocritical Than Thou

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

March 04, 2016

The Way Past American Exceptionalism

Christian critics of the United States often have a point. The nation is guilty of...

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...

December 2015

December 24, 2015

Ready, Set . . .

I sure hope readers haven't been sneaking Christmas carols into Advent. That might be like...

December 22, 2015

Would Muslims Allow This to Happen to Ramadan?

In light of the recent discussions of Muslim-Christian relations, let me add to doubts surrounding...

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