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January 2016

January 05, 2016

Does InterVarsity Endorse All of Black Lives Matter

The news is fairly stale at this point, but the indicators of support for Black...

December 2015

December 16, 2015

Evangelicalism Lets You Be You

I-told-you-so alert: about a decade ago I wrote a book about evangelical Protestantism that claimed...

December 11, 2015

Why the Bible Trumps Tradition

The Roman Catholic liturgy that Dwight Longenecker advocates is further proof of the Protestant understanding...

December 09, 2015

America Is not My Home (neither is my kitchen)

Two-kingdom theology is a set of reflections on Christian life that distinguishes between the secular...

December 04, 2015

A Christian Way of Governing?

Not if it means another Jimmy Carter, puhleeze! But John-Clark Levin wants more of the...

December 02, 2015

What Does the Bible Have To Do with U.S. Refugee Policy?

While evangelicals debate the biblical imperative to receive refugees from Syria, the logic of admitting...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

Evangelical, Republican, American

The latest poll confirms a definition of evangelicalism that many people find congenial: The NAE

November 13, 2015

I Don’t Need a Christian Excuse to Boycott Starbucks

Yet more hysteria from cultural Christians about the slights of the wider culture. Mark Bauerlein...

November 11, 2015

The Problem with Integrating Faith and Learning

A mantra in evangelical higher education as long as I've been around it (I no...

September 2015

September 17, 2015

Why Isn’t Psychology Good Enough?

Some folks here are aware of the controversy surrounding Doug Wilson and Christ's Church in...

September 08, 2015

Don’t Discount Gullibility

Yet another attempt to explain Donald Trump's appeal to evangelical Protestants in the United States,...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

My Caitlyn Jenner Problem

It is not that I have a problem with gender bending per se. Having an...

August 20, 2015

Confused about Trump, Think Driscoll

A couple of evangelical authors are puzzled about the phenomenon of Donald Trump. First our...

August 13, 2015

What If I Simply Want My Clothes To Fit?

Joseph Epstein remarked in one of his many essays that men when they turn fifty-eight...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Speaking of Gatekeeping

Here's one group that hopes to keep tabs on evangelicalism's boundaries, but turns out --...

July 28, 2015

Evangelicalism Outside the Gate

This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Faith in...

July 24, 2015

When Six is Four

If consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, color mine small. Over at the Gospel...

July 07, 2015

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

While folks are still sorting out the Supreme Court's decision on same-sex marriage, a little...

June 2015

June 19, 2015

Celebrity Congregants

People complain about celebrity pastors. Fame can make a pastor unaccountable, a lone ranger. It...

June 04, 2015

The Importance of Being Earnest

Can someone, anyone, explain why John Piper is so popular among evangelicals? The reason for...

May 2015

May 05, 2015

Can You Serve on the School Board if you Already Go Out to Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting?

In his book, Bad Religion, Ross Douthat covers the resistance that "orthodox" Christians (Roman Catholics...

May 01, 2015

The Upside of Keeping Religion Private

It looks like Ben Carson might need some help from John F. Kennedy. Southern Baptists...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Scandal, Division, and Glass Houses

I don't like taking issue with a fellow historian and Patheos blogger, but I wonder...

April 22, 2015

Should Evangelical Protestants Shift Their Rooting Interests to the Philadelphia Eagles?

The reason for asking is that the NFL franchise in the City of Brotherly Love...

April 17, 2015

Suburbanites All

Megachurches have their problems and I am certainly not a fan. But I wonder if...

April 08, 2015

How Non-Christians Hear Christians

With all the hoopla about religious freedom and the persecution of Christians, a post by...

March 2015

March 10, 2015

Channeling Hegel or Paul?

If you teach the history of the West, around the time that you turn the...

March 06, 2015

A Coalition or A Channel?

Over at Jesus Creed, David George Moore wonders about the boundaries of The Gospel Coalition....

February 2015

February 18, 2015

Leveraging Martyrdom

Why is it that evangelicals will claim Coptic Christians as martyrs for "the faith" when...

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