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October 2020

October 28, 2020

Virtue Hiding

By now everyone knows about virtue signaling, the way to show you are good, decent,...

June 2020

June 03, 2020

Being Evangelical, Being Gay

The rise of a gay rights movement coincided with the emergence of the religious right...

March 2020

March 11, 2020

A Pro-Life Social Imaginary – What To Do with New York City?

Karen Swallow Prior makes the useful point that defending unborn children is bigger than electoral...

January 2020

January 24, 2020

Exvangelicals before Exvangelicals

In 2016 lots of evangelicals voted for Donald Trump -- I've heard EIGHTY-ONE PERCENT!!! did....

October 2019

October 11, 2019

Tribal Sovereignty Day?

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

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...

September 2019

September 17, 2019

Raiders Nation Reading Hour

Say what you will about the dust up between Sohrab Ahmari and David French and...

September 13, 2019

Christians Want to be Modern, But They Don’t Trust Moderns

If you can believe it, the disagreement between Sohrab Ahmari and David French has gone...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

When Extremism Goes Mainstream

Josh Tait (@joshua_a_tait), who studies the history of American conservatism in a Ph.D. program, mentioned...

July 2019

July 03, 2019

Colin Kaepernick is a Good Test for David French-ism

With news that Nike has chosen to side with a man over a woman, Colin...

March 2019

March 19, 2019

Can Your Civilization Do This?

Do not get me wrong. The West, for all of its faults, is sometimes glorious...

March 06, 2019

Radical Christianity and Christian Culture

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

January 2019

January 07, 2019

Social Justice and the Problem of Evil

Why is it that when many Christians talk about the systemic nature of social injustice,...

November 2018

November 26, 2018

Is Evangelical the Only Kind of Protestant?

Roger Olson observes that the current critics of evangelicalism, the so-called voices from the margins,...

August 2018

August 29, 2018

A Fleet or Two Ships Passing in the Night

David French at National Review argues that Protestants have a stake in the sex scandal...

July 2018

July 25, 2018

Oregon Before Portlandia

The missus and I just finished another very good Netflix documentary, Wild Wild Country, about...

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...

January 2018

January 26, 2018

Life is Complicated but Evangelicals are Simple?

People act for a variety of reasons. That includes evangelicals when they vote.

November 2017

November 21, 2017

Just In Time for Thanksgiving

Americans recover their inner-Puritan. H. L. Mencken summarized the Puritan outlook wittily when he said...

November 17, 2017

Hypocrites All

It's a fallen world out there. Someone has to govern.

November 09, 2017

Whatever Happened to Doing All for the Glory of God — even Watching Movies?

I have been reading a surprising number of recent posts that raise questions about whether...

November 03, 2017

Part of Me

Why do evangelicals specifically and Americans more generally think that religion or politics or some...

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...

October 10, 2017

They Will Know We are Christians by Our Condemnation

Jemar Tisby writes at CNN about Vice President Pence's allegedly outrageous behavior at the Indianapolis...

September 2017

September 28, 2017

How to Honor Rebels

The controversy surrounding monuments to Confederate officers and soldiers got me wondering about how other...

August 2017

August 22, 2017

Evangelicals Took Faith Too Seriously

Mark Lilla's new book, The Once and Future Liberal, is gaining some attention as one...

August 17, 2017

Forget about 81%, Think about 1997

Two decades ago, Christine Leigh Heyrman won the Bancroft Prize (the prestigious annual book award...

August 15, 2017

Look How Tim Keller and Donald Trump Agree

Are Americans more prone to believe that Keller or Trump is sincere? And are Christians...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

Protestants Learned to “Do” Politics from Roman Catholics

If Christians had to argue about politics without riding the high horse of Christian norms,...

July 20, 2017

Follow the Bouncing Evangelical Ball

Readers may be hard pressed to figure out what some have recently written about evangelical...

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