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March 2020

March 16, 2020

Can You Change Evangelicalism’s Spots after Billy Graham?

Here is part of my review of Thomas Kidd's new book Who Is An Evangelical?...

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...

March 02, 2020

If Evangelical Support for Trump is Toxic, Won’t It also Hurt Bernie?

Polling data shows that the more Americans know about evangelicalism, the more their appreciation for...

February 2020

February 12, 2020

Courage in the Age of Trump

Peter Wehner continues his opposition to the president by praising Mitt Romney's vote to convict...

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...

January 24, 2020

Exvangelicals before Exvangelicals

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

January 09, 2020

The Ghost of Harold John Ockenga

With the news of Daniel Harrell's appointment as editor of Christianity Today, I could not...

January 07, 2020

What Evangelical Elites Could Learn from the World of Real Elitism

Imagine the editor of a major magazine running a column that aims multiple layers of...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

A Quick Guide to Evangelical Elites

Wayne Grudem is not one: I am guessing a lot of my readers have never...

December 19, 2019

Boris Johnson and the Hypocrisy of British Evangelicals (not really)

With all the scorn directed at U.S. evangelicals over their vote and support for Donald...

December 05, 2019

When All Protestants in the United States were Evangelical

Those were the days: At the beginning of the twentieth century this distinction between mainline...

December 04, 2019

Live by the Polls, Live by the Polls

Once more a defense of evangelicalism by trying to disassociate this form of Protestantism from...

November 2019

November 26, 2019

Why Do Southern Baptists Care about Sideline Presbyterians?

Something odd happened on social media. Beth Moore tweeted this: Apparently, she did not realize...

November 20, 2019

Let’s Stop Pretending Evangelicalism’s Crisis is New (part one)

Doesn't anyone remember Mark Noll, David Wells, George Marsden, Donald Dayton, or Douglas Sweeney? The...

November 08, 2019

If You Don’t Want to be An Evangelical, Become a Protestant

I am not sure if any form of Protestantism will satisfy #Exvangelicals, aside from mainline...

November 05, 2019

Defining is not Belonging

Surely if evangelicalism had an ecclesiology, that is a doctrine of the church, church membership...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

Was John MacArthur Channeling His Inner Aimee Byrd?

John MacArthur is taking flack for disparaging remarks about Beth Moore. As Mark Galli observed...

October 25, 2019

What Should Evangelicals Say about Independence for California (I mean Catalonia)?

And now for something completely different, evangelicals in Spain are not in the habit of...

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...

October 02, 2019

If You Love Karen Swallow Prior, Can You Find a Little for Her Boss?

Jerry Falwell, Jr.'s reputation only grows larger in proportion to Donald Trump's critics' need to...

September 2019

September 24, 2019

If Baptist or Episcopalian, Why be Evangelical?

Alan Jacobs uses Tommie Kidd's latest book on evangelicalism to explain to Atlantic readers what...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

Is a Protestant Who Becomes Roman Catholic a Convert?

With news of J. D. Vance's entrance into communion with the Roman Catholic Church, it...

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 18, 2019

Trump May Be the Least of Evangelicals’ Troubles

If I had a dime for every article or post since 2016 by an evangelical...

July 09, 2019

The Main Thing about Evangelicalism

Born-again Protestantism was always tricky to define, but evangelical support for President Trump has sent...

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...

June 2019

June 27, 2019

Not “Who’s an Evangelical” but “Who’s a Presbyterian”

This is a follow-up to the previous post about the Presbyterian Church in America leaving...

June 25, 2019

Neither Eighty-One nor Nineteen Percent

While evangelical historians continue to lament the majority of born-again Protestants who voted for President...

June 21, 2019

Ecumenism between the White Lines

Roman Catholics worrying about whether to stay in the church has dissipated somewhat since the...

June 07, 2019

Nicism

Just when Sohrab Ahmari's take down of David French-ism has almost expired, Jared Wilson decides...

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