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December 2018

December 03, 2018

No Gospel without Social Injustice

I keep seeing posts or tweets that suggest or even insist that Christianity is 100%...

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,...

October 2018

October 02, 2018

Before Kavanaugh, Mencken

White men can become toxic for different reasons. Once it happens, it's almost impossible to...

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...

August 2018

August 13, 2018

Why Can’t Progressives Make Up Their Minds?

Another odd aspect of President Obama's speech in South Africa was his conflicting rhetoric about...

July 2018

July 23, 2018

What if Politics Explains the Eighty-One Percent Better than Faith?

What if the evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump are something other than simply being...

July 12, 2018

If Error Had No Rights, Donald Trump Wouldn’t Be President

On this morning's walk when I usually converse with the missus, her bad back forced...

June 2018

June 19, 2018

If Trump Can Do This for Foreign Policy, Imagine National Identity

Damon Linker welcomes President Trump's refusal to portray American greatness in moral superiority: Americans love...

June 15, 2018

If You Think Vice President Pence is Bad, Have You Considered Henry VIII?

Mike Pence is a follower of the Billy Graham Rule, the one where a married...

June 08, 2018

Is that an Evangelical Telling Southern Baptists They Are Pushy?

I don't mean to pick on John Fea but he is on a roll of...

June 06, 2018

Moral Clarity Is Over-Rated

Justin Taylor recalls the prayer that FDR prayed on D-Day seventy years ago: Almighty God:...

May 2018

May 30, 2018

Jonathan Merritt Has Some ‘Splaining To Do

Where did the controversy over Paige Patterson come from? For instance, on April 5, 2018...

May 25, 2018

Are Some (of Paige Patterson’s) Sins More Heinous than Others?

In the land of Presbyterianism, we profess, with the Westminster Shorter Catechism, that "some sins...

May 22, 2018

Has President Trump Turned Evangelicals (the 19%) into Fundamentalists?

Last week I had a brief exchange with Heath Carter about the limitations of George...

May 10, 2018

Damned If You Scold, Damned If You Don’t

John Fea reminds (as is his wont) of the hypocrisy of evangelical Trump supporters, this...

April 2018

April 12, 2018

Has Thabiti Anyabwile Let Angela Merkel Off the Hook?

The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. continues to play out and The Gospel Coalition...

April 09, 2018

New Calvinists and Red Letter Christians Together

The Gospel Coalition held a conference to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

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...

February 2018

February 23, 2018

When Religious Historians Get Religion

Remember the good old days when historicism taught us that fundamentalists were sort of silly...

February 21, 2018

If Evangelicals Voted for Hillary They Would Still be Hypocritical

The daily barrage of outrage over evangelical support for Trump continues. Last week at Time...

January 2018

January 26, 2018

Life is Complicated but Evangelicals are Simple?

People act for a variety of reasons. That includes evangelicals when they vote.

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...

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...

January 11, 2018

American Exceptionalism as Obama Nostalgia

Only a little over three years ago, David Bromwich, who teaches literature at Yale, complained...

December 2017

December 15, 2017

Proof of American Greatness

Voters do not have to make the kind of political calculations that haunted Europeans. Here...

December 01, 2017

Finding Jesus at the American Academy of Religion

Religion needs to be in scare quotes.

November 2017

November 21, 2017

Just In Time for Thanksgiving

Americans recover their inner-Puritan. H. L. Mencken summarized the Puritan outlook wittily when he said...

November 17, 2017

Hypocrites All

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

November 10, 2017

Wait, Now We Want Religion in the Pulpit?

I continue to be amazed by the positions to which anti-Trumpism leads. Now it seems...

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