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January 2022

January 04, 2022

Maybe Dr. DuMez Has a Point

But perhaps white evangelical misogyny and masculinism is really a symptom of being American, not...

October 2021

October 28, 2021

The Optics and the Reality of Evangelical Elites

Carl Trueman's piece about the failure of evangelical elites likely misconstrued the work of George...

November 2020

November 20, 2020

Fundamentalists and Evangelicals as Outsiders

I did not know it was acceptable to otherize another group but John Fea does...

September 2020

September 07, 2020

Jerry Falwell Jr., We Never Knew You

Not that the former president of Liberty University didn't make for some titillating headlines, but...

September 01, 2020

The Meaning of the Jerry Falwell, Jr. Scandal

Some observers of evangelicalism are obsessed with Falwell, in part seemingly because he is another...

July 2020

July 10, 2020

Losing Whitefield

"Trust the science" has been a phrase used fairly often during the pandemic. Recent news...

June 2020

June 08, 2020

Maybe Rusty Reno Had A Point

Back at the beginning of the various state and federal directives to stay at home...

May 2020

May 08, 2020

Trusting Non-Christians

When you recommend worldview w-w as Protestants have ever since Francis Schaeffer popularized some of Abraham Kuyper's...

January 2020

January 07, 2020

What Evangelical Elites Could Learn from the World of Real Elitism

Imagine the editor of a major magazine running a column that aims multiple layers of...

December 2019

December 04, 2019

Live by the Polls, Live by the Polls

Once more a defense of evangelicalism by trying to disassociate this form of Protestantism from...

November 2019

November 14, 2019

Why Scholars Rally to Popularizers (and when)

I have already noticed the sort of odd phenomenon of progressive evangelical academics rallying to...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

Was John MacArthur Channeling His Inner Aimee Byrd?

John MacArthur is taking flack for disparaging remarks about Beth Moore. As Mark Galli observed...

September 2019

September 25, 2019

M(ake) (the) A(tlantic) G(reat) A(gain)

Here is another curious communication from my email in-box (received soon after subscribing to The...

September 19, 2019

Virtue Laundering

As an alum of Harvard Divinity School, I regularly receive mass email messages from the...

August 2019

August 15, 2019

What Hath the Great Commission To Do with Renaissance Humanism?

As faculty and students are gearing up for another year of college, those in higher...

August 06, 2019

John Henry Newman Needs to Read Wendell Berry

I was going through some old files and came across this piece, eventually published at...

July 2019

July 02, 2019

That Feeling when Academic Historians Get Ordained to the Ministry

These reflections come in the context of finishing a manuscript on the spiritual life of...

May 2019

May 22, 2019

New, Old, or Just a Little Stale?

If you follow discussions among Roman Catholics you may know that ever since Vatican II...

May 16, 2019

Where Is the Evangelical Mind Twenty-Five Years after the Scandal?

Rod Dreher is not the only one to wonder about the meaning of reactions to...

March 2019

March 25, 2019

The Difference a Degree Makes

People with Ph.D.s do not make a lot of money and the perks of teaching...

March 08, 2019

Semioticians All

When I was in college, I studied film and took a few classes in film...

March 01, 2019

More Outlets Doesn’t Mean More Readers (or Listeners)

Chris Gehrz makes a case for historians producing podcasts as a way of reaching a...

January 2019

January 21, 2019

Nathan Glazer

Over the weekend one of the prominent New York neo-conservative intellectuals, the sociologist, Nathan Glazer...

January 11, 2019

Secular Universities Now As Religious as Puritan Harvard

How's that for click-bait? But if you thought today's universities was filled either with secularist...

January 10, 2019

If Phillis Wheatley was an Evangelical in 2018, Is She Still Evangelical in 2019?

By now the debate about evangelicalism has petered out. (For background, see these posts.) But...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

Evangelical Historians’ Distribution Problem

Not too long ago, a number of evangelical historians raised questions about how to reach...

December 19, 2018

Was Phillis Wheatley an Evangelical? (Kidd vs. Merritt part 2)

In part one I generally took Tommie Kidd's side on the question of who gets...

December 18, 2018

Kidd vs. Merritt and Why Journalists Don’t Teach Foreign Policy

John Fea has the details of an exchange on Twitter between Tommie Kidd and Jonathan...

December 13, 2018

The Problem with History

Historians are an insecure lot and all the more so with recent developments. First came...

October 2018

October 12, 2018

Fellowship with Fellow Historians

Call me grumpy, call me a naysayer, or call me a Reformed Protestant (read Calvinist)....

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