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August 2018

August 22, 2018

Theological Dark Web

If the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) is a thing, is it possible that it has...

July 2018

July 18, 2018

Christian Agnosticism

A common refrain in evangelical higher education for the last thirty years has been that...

March 2018

March 12, 2018

How Much do Christians Care about Theology (and should they)?

Massimo Faggioli is a theologian who teaches at Villanova. With a name like that (trigger...

January 2018

January 16, 2018

Why Are Christians Obsessed with Sex?

Some people are worried about Christian/evangelical higher education and think the current climate of gay...

December 2017

December 01, 2017

Finding Jesus at the American Academy of Religion

Religion needs to be in scare quotes.

September 2017

September 12, 2017

If Only the New Atheists Were Funny

Today is the anniversary of H. L. Mencken's birth. Arguably, one of the greatest American...

September 08, 2017

Explaining Signers of Statements and Letters

Here is a follow up on the recent post that contrasted those scholars who signed...

April 2017

April 18, 2017

When it Comes to Denying Truth, Forget Foucault and Rorty but Remember Falwell

Molly Worthen heaps scorn on the evangelicals who voted for Trump by blaming our post-truth...

February 2017

February 16, 2017

Make Niebuhr Modest Again

I understand the easy target that President Trump is. But sometimes the swings boomerang, such...

December 2016

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,...

December 08, 2016

Why Atheists Should Read H. L. Mencken

Mencken has lessons to teach all Americans (which expands potentially the market for my new...

November 2016

November 18, 2016

Scholarship In Black and White

I think I understand the concerns that many Americans have about the president-elect. I have...

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...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Evangelical Piety Trumps History

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

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