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June 2019

June 04, 2019

All the News That’s Civil

In 1977 the magazine, Christianity Today, the flagship publication for movement evangelicalism, relocated from Washington,...

May 2019

May 30, 2019

What Sohrab Ahmari Doesn’t Understand about Evangelicals and Conservatism

The essay at First Things by Sohrab Ahmari against National Review's David French may be...

May 28, 2019

The NHL, Evangelicals, and POTUS

In light of last night's first game in the Stanley Cup between Boston and St....

May 16, 2019

Where Is the Evangelical Mind Twenty-Five Years after the Scandal?

Rod Dreher is not the only one to wonder about the meaning of reactions to...

May 14, 2019

#Woke Evangelical Timeline

Jemar Tisby has a new book out contending that the history of the church's complicity...

May 01, 2019

All of Me or Hyphenated Me

I have a friend who is of Polish and Italian descent but his father is...

April 2019

April 24, 2019

Fundamentalism is a Physical Condition (and so not a choice?)

There's hope for fundamentalists to gain acceptance in the wider society. It turns out fundamentalism...

April 22, 2019

The Good (Tiger), the Bad (Kate), and the Ugly (Pence)

H. L. Mencken defined Puritanism as the "haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy."...

April 09, 2019

New Strategy in Race Relations is Old (thanks to Ben Franklin)

The most recent effort to overcome white supremacy and look for harmony between races is...

April 05, 2019

The Gospel Coalition’s Fine Line of Moderation

The gospel allies ran a successful conference, according to some observers: 1. The Gospel Coalition...

April 03, 2019

Calvinists: The Worst of White People

Within a few days of each other, two authors decided to attribute to Reformed Protestants...

April 01, 2019

Being Reformed is Hard (and so few have tried it)

They asked and I accepted. Christian History Institute requested an essay about John Williamson Nevin,...

March 2019

March 29, 2019

Race, the Sabbath, and Resolutions

I wonder if Thabiti Anyabwile will support a resolution condemning the desecration of the Lord's...

March 27, 2019

Evangelical Politics: Same As it Ever Was

Jemar Tisby repeats the refrain that white evangelicals who support President Trump are hypocritical: In...

March 25, 2019

The Difference a Degree Makes

People with Ph.D.s do not make a lot of money and the perks of teaching...

March 19, 2019

Can Your Civilization Do This?

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

March 15, 2019

What Did Evangelicals Know and When Did They Know It?

The National Association of Evangelicals, one of the major institutional outlets for white Protestants who...

March 06, 2019

Radical Christianity and Christian Culture

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

February 2019

February 15, 2019

Even A Liberal Theocracy is Still Theocratic

Alan Cross has to assert several times that in arguing for Christian involvement in politics,...

January 2019

January 30, 2019

Civil Religion Is a Problem, but Will Biblical Religion Save U.S.?

Some evangelical (ambivalently so) historians, like David Swartz, admire politicians like Jimmy Carter and Mark...

January 29, 2019

Evangelicalism’s Border Walls

A stray book review in need of a home landed in my in-box. Evangelicals in...

January 16, 2019

Skin in the Scholarly Game

I, just like John Fea, thought the Bruce Springsteen Broadway show was terrific, and I...

January 11, 2019

Secular Universities Now As Religious as Puritan Harvard

How's that for click-bait? But if you thought today's universities was filled either with secularist...

January 10, 2019

If Phillis Wheatley was an Evangelical in 2018, Is She Still Evangelical in 2019?

By now the debate about evangelicalism has petered out. (For background, see these posts.) But...

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,...

January 04, 2019

Imagine if They Gave to Missions and Church Planting

Emma Green has a piece on a shift among evangelical philanthropists for which many should...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

Evangelical Historians’ Distribution Problem

Not too long ago, a number of evangelical historians raised questions about how to reach...

December 19, 2018

Was Phillis Wheatley an Evangelical? (Kidd vs. Merritt part 2)

In part one I generally took Tommie Kidd's side on the question of who gets...

December 18, 2018

Kidd vs. Merritt and Why Journalists Don’t Teach Foreign Policy

John Fea has the details of an exchange on Twitter between Tommie Kidd and Jonathan...

December 07, 2018

I Would Rather be Treated by a Smart Turk than an Untrained Christian

Some dispute that Martin Luther ever said that he would rather be ruled by a...

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