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July 2017

July 13, 2017

Freedom with Qualifications

From presidents to non-Americans, many people used to regard the United States as the leader...

July 11, 2017

First the South Was Toxic, Now the West

Staying on the right side of history is tricky in these fast changing times. Back...

June 2017

June 27, 2017

Theology of the Cross says Losing is Winning (and winning losing)

Yesterday's Supreme Court decision, Trinity Lutheran v. Comer, was on the surface a victory for...

June 15, 2017

Jesus Forgives Sins, the United States Doesn’t

If Southern Baptists think their resolution condemning the alt-right will make them right with the...

June 14, 2017

Today’s College Students Can’t Handle the Stones

One of my stations at Pandora is The Moody Blues, one of the bands that...

June 07, 2017

Illiberal Freedom?

Now that we have illiberal democracy in the United States, maybe we can also consider...

May 2017

May 03, 2017

Neither Male nor Female, But Always Jew or Greek

In 1992 justice Anthony Kennedy wrote on behalf of abortion rights that the sort of...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

The Progressive West Supports Islam – Are You Sure?

According to Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Brittany Pheiffer Noble, the Progressive West and the Christian West...

March 17, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried About America Before the Election (part 4)

Christopher Lasch, a gifted intellectual historian, perhaps best remembered for supplying President Jimmy Carter with...

March 14, 2017

Is Tim Keller about to have His Rod Dreher Moment?

Tim Keller, the PCA pastor of Redeemer Church in New York City, likely needs no...

February 2017

February 03, 2017

Can We Have a National Conversation about Decency?

Today seems about as good as any to raise the question of national standards of...

February 02, 2017

Living in TV Reality

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

January 2017

January 24, 2017

If Caitlyn Jenner is Normal, Why Can’t Donald Trump Be?

Imagine if elite journalists covered Donald Trump the way they did Caitlyn Jenner. Here's one...

December 2016

December 22, 2016

The Rewards of Scholarly Trigger Warnings

As much as Daniel Williams bent over backwards to be sensitive to opponents shocked by...

December 20, 2016

Scholarly Trigger Warnings

Readers of the historiography of religion in the United States might have sensed a cultural...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

Speak Truth to Lena Dunham

The news of Donald Trump's vulgar comments is a little stale but criticisms of the...

October 07, 2016

Why the Public Schools Need the Bible

If exposed to passages like the following, graduates of public schools would not need trigger...

September 2016

September 08, 2016

The Temptation of Raising the Stakes

Don't do it! Christians who write about politics and culture are in the habit of...

September 07, 2016

Imagine What It’s Like to Be A Calvinist

Mary Eberstadt in her new book, It’s Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies,...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

Christian Intellectuals Are Overrated

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

August 10, 2016

If You Celebrate the American Founding, Legalize Drugs

The results of this recent poll got me thinking (it's rare). According to the Barna...

July 2016

July 08, 2016

The Tragedy and Mythology of Law Enforcement

Matthew J. Hall thinks evangelicals need to break the silence on race and speak out....

July 07, 2016

Does the Church Also Need to Apologize to Onanists?

For the biblically challenged, onansim is a synonym for masturbation, Onan being that character in...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Turkish Lives Matter

Why so much anguish about the shootings in Orlando but nothing (that I've seen so...

June 21, 2016

Do Christians Really Support Religious Liberty (part one)?

Russell Moore's recent defense of religious freedom for Muslim Americans reassured many: Does religious liberty...

June 08, 2016

Evangelicals Have Painted Themselves Morally Into the Corner

Michael Gerson joins the chorus of evangelicals who repudiate Donald Trump: Support for Trump involves...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Growing Up Fundamentalist Was Not All Bad

Over at Mere Orthodoxy, Jake Meador has republished an essay that Matthew Lee Anderson wrote...

May 20, 2016

Make America Biblical Again

Not too long ago I called attention to the tendency of evangelical historians to criticize...

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...

May 06, 2016

Marriage and the End of Moral Outrage

More news about Joe Paterno and his involvement in covering up Jerry Sandusky's sexual molestation...

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