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January 2022

January 04, 2022

Maybe Dr. DuMez Has a Point

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

October 2021

October 28, 2021

The Optics and the Reality of Evangelical Elites

Carl Trueman's piece about the failure of evangelical elites likely misconstrued the work of George...

August 2021

August 17, 2021

Are Complementarians America’s Taliban?

Hard to know whom to believe about conditions in Afghanistan for women. Reporters in the...

June 2021

June 29, 2021

Thinking Theologically with David French (about aliens)

Recent reports about sightings of UFOs does not trouble Mr. French. (Nothing actually seems to...

June 15, 2021

A Good White Evangelical is a Dead One?

Death is the great leveler, not only in status but also personal animus. The death...

June 07, 2021

What Is Wrong with David French?

Remember the kid in high school who snitched on the other kids smoking in the...

May 2021

May 28, 2021

Do You need a Special Initiative to Do Public Theology (whatever it is)?

Here's the news about Russell Moore leaving the Southern Baptists Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission...

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...

January 2021

January 15, 2021

What if Christianity is Not Reasonable?

During the era of Trump, lots of evangelical thought leaders have indicated they are not...

December 2020

December 04, 2020

It’s Obvious What He’s Doing

David French doesn't want you to confuse him with evangelical Protestants who do not receive...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

Fundamentalists and Evangelicals as Outsiders

I did not know it was acceptable to otherize another group but John Fea does...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

Virtue Hiding

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

October 20, 2020

Politics and not Religion

What if economics and geography matter more than religion for electoral outcomes? Ken Woodward discussed...

September 2020

September 07, 2020

Jerry Falwell Jr., We Never Knew You

Not that the former president of Liberty University didn't make for some titillating headlines, but...

September 01, 2020

The Meaning of the Jerry Falwell, Jr. Scandal

Some observers of evangelicalism are obsessed with Falwell, in part seemingly because he is another...

August 2020

August 06, 2020

What About Nostalgia for a View of the Past?

Nostalgia has been on the ropes lately. The reason is apparently a new reckoning with...

July 2020

July 09, 2020

How Evangelicals Can Vote for Joe Biden this November (if the governors let them)

Recent protests along with some of the demands of protesters, no matter how peaceful, may...

June 2020

June 08, 2020

Maybe Rusty Reno Had A Point

Back at the beginning of the various state and federal directives to stay at home...

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...

June 03, 2020

Being Evangelical, Being Gay

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

May 2020

May 28, 2020

David French Must Have Jonah Goldberg Scratching His Head

French and Goldberg used to write for National Review but recently moved to an outlet...

May 21, 2020

I Just Wish Evangelicals Were Consistent

First, they rejected business: Finney preached even more explicitly against the mores of business. “The...

May 20, 2020

How Weird is Episcopacy?

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

May 08, 2020

Trusting Non-Christians

When you recommend worldview w-w as Protestants have ever since Francis Schaeffer popularized some of Abraham Kuyper's...

May 07, 2020

Church Responses to Quarantine

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

April 2020

April 29, 2020

David French Has a Theonomy Problem

At the risk of seeming obsessive, a little more attention to David French's political judgments...

April 20, 2020

What if POTUS Were a Drag Queen?

How righteous does David French think he is? Apparently, sufficiently so to question the character...

April 13, 2020

Pandemic Politics Before COVID-19

"Will I be infected by the virus?" is a question that guides most evangelical arguments...

April 03, 2020

Who Benefits when Evangelicals Publicly Ridicule Other Evangelicals?

Jonathan Merritt thought the readers of the Daily Beast needed to know how bigoted Franklin...

March 2020

March 18, 2020

Evangelical Hypocrisy Deepens

By now, the number of people who know about American evangelicals' hypocrisy in voting for...

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