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September 2017

September 26, 2017

Thus Saith Leith Anderson

What makes the president of the National Association of Evangelicals an expert on health insurance...

September 21, 2017

Evangelicalism B.T. (Before Trump)

The year 2016 changed nothing.

September 15, 2017

Fed up With Evangelicalism, Try Calvinism

Let's give up evangelicalism. Let Protestant diversity be Protestant diversity.

September 08, 2017

Explaining Signers of Statements and Letters

Here is a follow up on the recent post that contrasted those scholars who signed...

September 05, 2017

You Gotta Offend Somebody

Two kinds of evangelicals: those who worry about offending certain groups and those who are...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Will Liberal Protestants Squander their Moral Authority by Opposing Trump?

If you can believe it, the columns that underline evangelical hypocrisy for supporting the POTUS...

August 24, 2017

Help Wanted: Christian Agnostics

Christians, from pastors and theologians to parents and children, don't have any special insight into...

August 22, 2017

Evangelicals Took Faith Too Seriously

Mark Lilla's new book, The Once and Future Liberal, is gaining some attention as one...

August 17, 2017

Forget about 81%, Think about 1997

Two decades ago, Christine Leigh Heyrman won the Bancroft Prize (the prestigious annual book award...

August 15, 2017

Look How Tim Keller and Donald Trump Agree

Are Americans more prone to believe that Keller or Trump is sincere? And are Christians...

August 11, 2017

Giving Your Testimony is what Protestants Do (even when they become Roman Catholic)

Last month we (some of us) read about Elizabeth Bruenig's conversion from Protestantism to Rome....

August 08, 2017

From Charles Finney to Lena Dunham: The Oberlin Factor

News has circulated about Lena Dunham's out-tweeting of American Airlines' staff who while discussing transgender...

August 04, 2017

How Skeptics View Christianity

J. Gresham Machen was by most accounts a fundamentalist. In 1923 he wrote, Christianity and...

August 02, 2017

Why You Can’t Get Out of Evangelicalism

Protestants are converting to Rome because evangelicals won’t pony up with structures and norms and...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

Protestants Learned to “Do” Politics from Roman Catholics

If Christians had to argue about politics without riding the high horse of Christian norms,...

July 26, 2017

Politics is What White (and many Black) Protestants Do

Why is this so hard? Historians who study religion are falling all over themselves to...

July 20, 2017

Follow the Bouncing Evangelical Ball

Readers may be hard pressed to figure out what some have recently written about evangelical...

June 2017

June 24, 2017

If Worldview Goes, So Does WWJD?

Trying to make politics conform to gospel ends is to miss the ginormous gap between...

June 23, 2017

Shouldn’t Implicit Bias Make a View of the World Go Away

For the last three decades at least (thanks perhaps to Francis Schaeffer and Reformed Protestant...

June 15, 2017

Jesus Forgives Sins, the United States Doesn’t

If Southern Baptists think their resolution condemning the alt-right will make them right with the...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Evangelicals Showed How Tolerant They Are by Voting for Donald Trump

Anyway, why can't you look at the results of the 2016 election and read it...

May 24, 2017

A Threat to Democracy

Is it more likely to come from the evangelicals who voted for Trump or from...

May 17, 2017

David Gushee Finally Agrees with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Gushee is only the most recent indication of evangelicalism's hollow identity.

May 04, 2017

Evangelicals Used to Hear They Scolded Too Much, Now Not Enough?

As if the repeated castigation of white evangelicals for voting Republican in the last POTUS...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Don’t Tell Marshall Bruce Mathers, III

Apparently when Eminem performs, by Rev. Jemar Tisby's logic, the white rapper is guilty of...

April 25, 2017

Would We Know as Much about Evangelicals if Not for the Religious Right?

If evangelicals were not political would they generate any more attention than the Amish?

April 18, 2017

When it Comes to Denying Truth, Forget Foucault and Rorty but Remember Falwell

Molly Worthen heaps scorn on the evangelicals who voted for Trump by blaming our post-truth...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

The Progressive West Supports Islam – Are You Sure?

According to Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Brittany Pheiffer Noble, the Progressive West and the Christian West...

March 28, 2017

Advice for Russell Moore — Don’t Take Any from Sarah Posner

In the ongoing effort by journalists to discredit President Trump (I actually think he has...

March 17, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried About America Before the Election (part 4)

Christopher Lasch, a gifted intellectual historian, perhaps best remembered for supplying President Jimmy Carter with...

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