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March 2017

March 16, 2017

If You Have to Explain It, It’s Not Funny

My favorite light bulb jokes are these: How many teamsters does it take to change...

March 15, 2017

If U.S. Survived Andrew Jackson dot dot dot

Can't U.S. survive Donald Trump? Tommie Kidd provides a reminder of the parallels between Jackson...

March 14, 2017

Is Tim Keller about to have His Rod Dreher Moment?

Tim Keller, the PCA pastor of Redeemer Church in New York City, likely needs no...

March 01, 2017

What if the NFL Were a Bigger Deal than Porn?

I know the biblical counselors used to reduce most of the moral law to idolatry,...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Remember When Separatism was so Fundamentalist?

Back in the day (and in grad school while studying the history of American evangelicalism),...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

The Big Story of 2016 – The Moral Majority Is Alive

The following reaction to Donald Trump's victory is a little dated, but it does illustrate...

December 28, 2016

Fake News, Fake Narratives

Americans have heard a lot about the dangers of fake news of late and before...

December 15, 2016

WWJTB (what would Jesus’ tone be?)

While Carl Trueman and Peter Leithart are wondering about the harsh tone of Protestant polemics...

December 12, 2016

Is This How Paul Prayed for Nero?

Here's how Paul instructed Timothy: First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions,...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Didn’t Jesus Hang Around with Tax Collectors (and Real Estate Developers)?

Then why do Tony Campolo and Shane Claibornethink that followers of Jesus would repudiate Donald...

November 15, 2016

Didn’t Evangelicals Vote Overwhelmingly for George W. Bush?

So what's so bad about voting for Donald Trump? Katelyn Beaty explains: This election, I...

November 10, 2016

They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Vote?

Some of us two-kingdom Protestants have been arguing for a while that an approach to...

November 04, 2016

Taking the Temperature of the Evangelical Mind

After meeting at Regent University for the biennial gathering of the Conference on Faith and...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

Speak Truth to Lena Dunham

The news of Donald Trump's vulgar comments is a little stale but criticisms of the...

October 20, 2016

Why Would Protestants Make Arguments that Undermine the Reformation?

Justin Taylor remembered that fifty years ago British evangelicals had their neo-evangelical against fundamentalist moment....

September 2016

September 29, 2016

High Church Protestantism

You don't need to become an Anglican to have a high view of the visible...

September 28, 2016

No Need for Tony Campolo to Give Up Being Evangelical

Evangelicals have always been liberal Protestants, if you define liberalism, as most religious historians do,...

September 23, 2016

Hell Is not (a problem) Reserved for Calvinists

Roger Olson shows some civility to Calvinists in a post about a t-shirt caption making...

September 21, 2016

Does This Mean Black Lives Matter is Fundamentalist?

Benjamin Corey thinks fundamentalism is making a come back: American culture is currently experiencing what...

September 15, 2016

Can You Be Progressive and Intolerant?

A theme that goes around in evangelical circles is how born-again Protestants were once on...

September 13, 2016

What Historical Perspective Looks Like

I know I've given evangelical historians a bit of grief for opposing Donald Trump (opposition...

September 08, 2016

The Temptation of Raising the Stakes

Don't do it! Christians who write about politics and culture are in the habit of...

September 01, 2016

Lost In Trespasses and Sins

Is she describing Donald Trump or President Obama? I get Evangelicals, those hard-working, hard-loving, hard...

August 2016

August 24, 2016

What is the Shelf-Life on Memory?

Are Europeans in the EU allowed to remember Europe's Christendom past? Are Armenians allowed to...

August 22, 2016

Christian Intellectuals Are Overrated

Alan Jacob's Harper's piece on the evaporation of Christian intellectuals and his subsequent exchange with...

August 02, 2016

What Must Evangelicals Do To Be Saved (from Donald Trump)?

Don't do what some Roman Catholics advocate: We attend a special Rosary group when we...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Evangelical Piety Trumps History

Readers beware: more about evangelical historians and what they talk about (though Trump is coming)....

July 26, 2016

History as Seeing What You Want To

As evangelical historians discuss the merits of regular historians' opposition to Donald Trump, another religious...

July 15, 2016

Do You Need to be an Extrovert to be Evangelical?

The expiration date on the Myers Briggs personality test may have passed, but the differences...

July 08, 2016

The Tragedy and Mythology of Law Enforcement

Matthew J. Hall thinks evangelicals need to break the silence on race and speak out....

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