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June 2021

June 07, 2021

What Is Wrong with David French?

Remember the kid in high school who snitched on the other kids smoking in the...

May 2021

May 21, 2021

Is David French the Best Judge of America?

David French writes a weekly column at The Dispatch. Since he is an outspokenly evangelical...

January 2021

January 15, 2021

What if Christianity is Not Reasonable?

During the era of Trump, lots of evangelical thought leaders have indicated they are not...

December 2020

December 23, 2020

A Genealogy of Alarm

Remember how bad the environment was? The leaders of the Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, Audubon...

December 04, 2020

It’s Obvious What He’s Doing

David French doesn't want you to confuse him with evangelical Protestants who do not receive...

August 2020

August 06, 2020

What About Nostalgia for a View of the Past?

Nostalgia has been on the ropes lately. The reason is apparently a new reckoning with...

April 2020

April 13, 2020

Pandemic Politics Before COVID-19

"Will I be infected by the virus?" is a question that guides most evangelical arguments...

April 03, 2020

Who Benefits when Evangelicals Publicly Ridicule Other Evangelicals?

Jonathan Merritt thought the readers of the Daily Beast needed to know how bigoted Franklin...

March 2020

March 18, 2020

Evangelical Hypocrisy Deepens

By now, the number of people who know about American evangelicals' hypocrisy in voting for...

February 2020

February 24, 2020

Increasing Subscriptions by Doing Good

I recently received this email message from Nikole Hannah-Jones. I don't believe she sent it...

October 2019

October 16, 2019

Remembering Witches is Fun?

On the North Shore of Boston, visitors and residents have trouble not coming into contact...

September 2019

September 11, 2019

Why Are “Liberals” So Insecure that They Need the Times’ Green Light to Dump on Conservatives?

The New York Times' poor driving skills have already caught my attention and are now...

September 06, 2019

Trump is the POTUS that HBO Subscribers Deserve

I am still having trouble wrapping my mind around the very high moral standards that...

May 2019

May 30, 2019

What Sohrab Ahmari Doesn’t Understand about Evangelicals and Conservatism

The essay at First Things by Sohrab Ahmari against National Review's David French may be...

April 2019

April 22, 2019

The Good (Tiger), the Bad (Kate), and the Ugly (Pence)

H. L. Mencken defined Puritanism as the "haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy."...

February 2019

February 12, 2019

If Abraham Lincoln were Donald Trump

We might not have apotheosized the POTUS. We might have regarded them as real life...

January 2019

January 25, 2019

The Worse it Gets, the More Attractive?

I would have thought that the recent scandals among Rome's bishops would diminish some of...

November 2018

November 21, 2018

Michael Gerson’s Hypocrisy

When will John Fea turn from David Barton to Michael Gerson? The column about the...

November 16, 2018

Non-Partisan Social Justice

Lots of Christians talk about social justice but what are they doing besides giving speeches,...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

Doubts about One Accuser, Credibility for Another

What would happen if the reporters and editors at Time were as hard on Christine...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

Another Take on the EIGHTY-ONE PERCENT

Sometimes the explanations of the number of evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump comes across...

March 2018

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 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...

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 23, 2018

Trump is Perfect for Evangelical Political Analysis

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

November 2017

November 17, 2017

Hypocrites All

It's a fallen world out there. Someone has to govern.

September 2017

September 21, 2017

Evangelicalism B.T. (Before Trump)

The year 2016 changed nothing.

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 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...

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