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April 2018

April 20, 2018

Deconstructing or Condemning Evangelicalism

As a historian and believer keenly aware of the gap between my own convictions, Reformed...

April 16, 2018

The 252nd Way that Evangelicalism Is Not Like Historic Protestantism

Evangelicals have no way of excluding others who self-apply the label born-again. Historic Protestants actually...

April 12, 2018

Has Thabiti Anyabwile Let Angela Merkel Off the Hook?

The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. continues to play out and The Gospel Coalition...

April 09, 2018

New Calvinists and Red Letter Christians Together

The Gospel Coalition held a conference to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

March 2018

March 28, 2018

Whatever Is Going on at Willow Creek (?)

Is not good. According to the story at Christianity Today, reports have surfaced that Bill...

March 26, 2018

Never Trump Needs American Greatness

Michael Gerson's piece in the Atlantic on President Trump's appeal to evangelicals is revealing of...

March 21, 2018

Airbrushing Evangelicals

The last time we noticed evangelical spokesmen engaging in nostalgia for a winsome and appealing...

March 20, 2018

Discernment or Gullibility

Mark Hemingway has a positive piece on Russell Moore at The Weekly Standard, the gist...

March 14, 2018

Billy Graham as Rorschach Test

Some call it confirmation bias, others wishful thinking. Confirmation bias (link is external)occurs from the...

March 12, 2018

How Much do Christians Care about Theology (and should they)?

Massimo Faggioli is a theologian who teaches at Villanova. With a name like that (trigger...

March 01, 2018

Is Billy Graham in Purgatory?

This is not a question that many have seemed to consider since the praise for...

February 2018

February 23, 2018

When Religious Historians Get Religion

Remember the good old days when historicism taught us that fundamentalists were sort of silly...

February 21, 2018

If Evangelicals Voted for Hillary They Would Still be Hypocritical

The daily barrage of outrage over evangelical support for Trump continues. Last week at Time...

February 14, 2018

The Valentine’s Dilemma for Protestants

Lots of Roman Catholic authors are writing about the conflict between Ash Wednesday and Valentine's...

February 02, 2018

If Not for Politics, Would Anyone Care about Evangelicalism?

The only reason why anyone who wasn't an evangelical cared was because folks like Jerry...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

Evangelicals and the Vietnam War

The idea that evangelicals support for Donald Trump is an anomaly or a form of...

January 26, 2018

Life is Complicated but Evangelicals are Simple?

People act for a variety of reasons. That includes evangelicals when they vote.

January 23, 2018

Trump is Perfect for Evangelical Political Analysis

Why is it that the critics of evangelicals are as moralistic as Trumpian evangelicals try...

January 16, 2018

Why Are Christians Obsessed with Sex?

Some people are worried about Christian/evangelical higher education and think the current climate of gay...

January 03, 2018

Thick Evangelicalism?

To include a large number of disparate Protestants, you need to overlook important differences —...

December 2017

December 22, 2017

The New Yorker Now Carries Water for New Evangelicalism?

What did Tim Keller know, and when did he know it? That is the question...

December 19, 2017

Evangelicalism Is a Subset of Protestantism

With some born-again Protestants in the United States feeling nervous about evangelicalism as an identity...

December 13, 2017

Rubbing Evangelicals’ Nose in It

Some folks are taking the Alabama Senate election results as another way to damage evangelicals'...

December 07, 2017

Evangelicals Talk Funny

Another reason for questioning the unifying character of evangelicalism is the way rank-and-file born again...

December 05, 2017

The Evangelical Narrative Will Not Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together

If you want to be an evangelical in America, you generally need to trace your...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

The Protestant Crisis That Is Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism is not a church. It's a movement, sort of like being a Yankee's fan....

November 10, 2017

Wait, Now We Want Religion in the Pulpit?

I continue to be amazed by the positions to which anti-Trumpism leads. Now it seems...

November 03, 2017

Part of Me

Why do evangelicals specifically and Americans more generally think that religion or politics or some...

October 2017

October 25, 2017

If Not Evangelical, What?

The idea of abandoning evangelicalism is not new. Low Tide How is it that a...

October 13, 2017

When You Fault Evangelicals for Being Unreasonable, Maybe You Make Sure to Use Reason

A conservative columnist at the Washington Post claims that evangelicals are proving their harshest critics...

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