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December 2018

December 03, 2018

No Gospel without Social Injustice

I keep seeing posts or tweets that suggest or even insist that Christianity is 100%...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Great Historian, Pretty Good Awakening

A good friend and great colleague in the study of U.S. history, Leo Ribuffo, has...

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,...

November 21, 2018

Michael Gerson’s Hypocrisy

When will John Fea turn from David Barton to Michael Gerson? The column about the...

November 08, 2018

Does Place Matter More than Faith?

At the beginning of this week, John Fea posted several key races in state and...

October 2018

October 12, 2018

Fellowship with Fellow Historians

Call me grumpy, call me a naysayer, or call me a Reformed Protestant (read Calvinist)....

October 11, 2018

Did Greg Laurie Take a Seminar on Colonial American Religion in the 1980s?

John Fea thinks Greg Laurie, the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship who spoke at...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

If Cats Declare the Glory of God, Why not Unregenerate Truck Drivers?

Joe Carter thinks that after 500 years, Protestants are finally understanding vocation: While vocation is...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Does Religion Drive Politics or Vice Versa?

Looks to me like politics is a bigger influence on religion than Christians transforming culture....

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...

August 22, 2018

Theological Dark Web

If the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) is a thing, is it possible that it has...

August 16, 2018

Remember When Evangelicals Refused to Support Rudy Giuliani?

For some reason, I had occasion recently to come back to a piece on the...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

Sometimes You Leave, Other Times You Stay (in Evangelicalism)

If you are an evangelical, all that is required is being born-again, having that come-to-Jesus...

July 25, 2018

Oregon Before Portlandia

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

July 23, 2018

What if Politics Explains the Eighty-One Percent Better than Faith?

What if the evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump are something other than simply being...

July 18, 2018

Christian Agnosticism

A common refrain in evangelical higher education for the last thirty years has been that...

July 12, 2018

If Error Had No Rights, Donald Trump Wouldn’t Be President

On this morning's walk when I usually converse with the missus, her bad back forced...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

Evangelicalism and Tribalism

Here is a thought experiment for those who think the evangelicals who voted for Trump...

June 19, 2018

If Trump Can Do This for Foreign Policy, Imagine National Identity

Damon Linker welcomes President Trump's refusal to portray American greatness in moral superiority: Americans love...

June 08, 2018

Is that an Evangelical Telling Southern Baptists They Are Pushy?

I don't mean to pick on John Fea but he is on a roll of...

June 06, 2018

Moral Clarity Is Over-Rated

Justin Taylor recalls the prayer that FDR prayed on D-Day seventy years ago: Almighty God:...

May 2018

May 25, 2018

Are Some (of Paige Patterson’s) Sins More Heinous than Others?

In the land of Presbyterianism, we profess, with the Westminster Shorter Catechism, that "some sins...

May 22, 2018

Has President Trump Turned Evangelicals (the 19%) into Fundamentalists?

Last week I had a brief exchange with Heath Carter about the limitations of George...

May 17, 2018

Who Would Have Thought the Shelf Life on Richard John Neuhaus’ Legacy Would Be This Short

When Neuhaus died almost a decade ago, the former Lutheran pastor turned Roman Catholic and...

May 15, 2018

If Politics Undermines Theology, Why Is Your Theological Affirmation So Political?

Yet another evangelical statement is seeking signatures. Reclaiming Jesus is a "Confession in a Time...

May 10, 2018

Damned If You Scold, Damned If You Don’t

John Fea reminds (as is his wont) of the hypocrisy of evangelical Trump supporters, this...

May 02, 2018

Coalition is not Communion

I just learned that I could list my congregation in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church at...

May 01, 2018

In 2008 Hillary Clinton Would Have Received Less than 19%

A dip into an older book of mine for a Sunday school lesson last week...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Everyone’s an Evangelical

Chris Gehrz observes well how plastic the word is and so how big a hurdle...

April 26, 2018

Another Take on the EIGHTY-ONE PERCENT

Sometimes the explanations of the number of evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump comes across...

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