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July 2016

July 01, 2016

What Does Faith Have to do with Citizenship?

Michael Gerson thinks evangelicals have lost their faith in signing up to support Trump (via...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

Do Christians Really Support Religious Liberty (part two)?

The first of this two-part series raised questions about an understanding of religion that so...

June 21, 2016

Do Christians Really Support Religious Liberty (part one)?

Russell Moore's recent defense of religious freedom for Muslim Americans reassured many: Does religious liberty...

June 15, 2016

So Far Everyone Agrees on Orlando as the Place

From 1847 to 1857 if we believe Wikipedia, the City of Orlando was known as...

June 08, 2016

Evangelicals Have Painted Themselves Morally Into the Corner

Michael Gerson joins the chorus of evangelicals who repudiate Donald Trump: Support for Trump involves...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Growing Up Fundamentalist Was Not All Bad

Over at Mere Orthodoxy, Jake Meador has republished an essay that Matthew Lee Anderson wrote...

May 20, 2016

Make America Biblical Again

Not too long ago I called attention to the tendency of evangelical historians to criticize...

May 18, 2016

Give ’em a Square Inch And They Take a Mile

Did you ever wonder why pastors, bishops, and popes think -- despite the specialization and...

May 04, 2016

Reverse Self-Righteousness

OneWheaton has come out strongly against Wheaton College for not denouncing alumnus Dennis Hastert after...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Would Randy Have John’s Back on Jim?

Jim Wallis that is. Truth be told, I am a historian with certain religious and...

April 22, 2016

Wesleyans (finally) defeat Calvinists

About two decades ago, Donald Dayton and George Marsden had a bit of a kerfuffle...

April 20, 2016

Thinking Christianly or Constitutionally

In a review of John Wilsey's new book, American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion, Richard Gamble...

April 14, 2016

Evangelical Chicken and GOP Egg

Which came first? Evangelicalism or Republicanism? You hear a lot from evangelicals who have been...

April 12, 2016

Edward Said Meets Dwight L. Moody

For readers who have spent time with Edward Said's influential book, Orientalism, the thought that...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Evangelicalism’s Pietist Roots

Chris Gehrz is correct to offer the badge "pietism" as an alternative to evangelicalism, which...

March 25, 2016

First Billy Sunday, Now Joel Osteen

Those are just a few of the comparisons that observers are drawing about Donald Trump....

March 18, 2016

An Evangelical Guide to March Madness

The prominence of Roman Catholic universities in the NCAA Division 1 basketball tournament is readily...

March 16, 2016

Why Expect People Who Don’t Fear God to Act Like They Do?

Jason Jones and John Zmirak think liberals are incoherent at best and dangerous at worst....

March 09, 2016

Less Hypocritical Than Thou

Randall Balmer isn't at all surprised by evangelicals' support for Trump. Evangelicals, he says, are...

March 02, 2016

Why Can’t Evangelicals Have a Persecution Complex?

Randall Stephens makes a decent case for the origins of the evangelical persecution complex: Conservative...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Does Support for Trump Increase as Biblical Authority Declines?

Some pundits are scratching their heads over evangelical support for Trump: Evangelicals have for decades...

February 19, 2016

What’s Wrong With Being Liberal?

It is the season of not wanting to be a Donald-Trump supporter, Islamophobic, and racially...

February 12, 2016

If Jesus is My Lover, Does that Make me Gay?

Yes, that's a provocative question, but sometime the excesses of evangelical and New Calvinist piety...

February 05, 2016

Why Do Evangelicals Outside the U.S. Sound Like the U.S. Reporters at CNN?

Over at Sojourners (via John Fea) Wes Granburg-Michaelson, the former General Secretary of the Reformed...

February 04, 2016

Why Not Give Up Being Evangelical?

James Bratt thinks the evangelical brand has lost its usefulness, thanks in part to all...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

Jerry Falwell’s Support for Donald Trump is Smarter than You Think

In fact, Falwell's endorsement of Trump goes in exactly the right direction, as opposed to...

January 22, 2016

Does Academic Freedom Turn All Professors into Theologians?

I think I can understand Tracey McKenzie's sense of relief as a Christian historian in...

January 20, 2016

Why the Comparisons between Jesus and Trump Make Sense

Never have I seen a political candidate with the power to change lives as much...

January 15, 2016

If You “Do” Advent, Are You an Evangelical?

Low church baby-boomers like myself grew up only knowing about the birth and death parts...

January 08, 2016

Should Reading the Bible Feel Like Exercise?

This is not a new thought but it comes up every year when any number...

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