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October 2017

October 20, 2017

With Obama Christmas was Merry?

Jamie Smith has a mildly clever take on President Trump's comments about Christmas greetings. To...

October 13, 2017

When You Fault Evangelicals for Being Unreasonable, Maybe You Make Sure to Use Reason

A conservative columnist at the Washington Post claims that evangelicals are proving their harshest critics...

October 10, 2017

They Will Know We are Christians by Our Condemnation

Jemar Tisby writes at CNN about Vice President Pence's allegedly outrageous behavior at the Indianapolis...

September 2017

September 28, 2017

How to Honor Rebels

The controversy surrounding monuments to Confederate officers and soldiers got me wondering about how other...

September 26, 2017

Thus Saith Leith Anderson

What makes the president of the National Association of Evangelicals an expert on health insurance...

September 05, 2017

You Gotta Offend Somebody

Two kinds of evangelicals: those who worry about offending certain groups and those who are...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Will Liberal Protestants Squander their Moral Authority by Opposing Trump?

If you can believe it, the columns that underline evangelical hypocrisy for supporting the POTUS...

August 08, 2017

From Charles Finney to Lena Dunham: The Oberlin Factor

News has circulated about Lena Dunham's out-tweeting of American Airlines' staff who while discussing transgender...

July 2017

July 11, 2017

First the South Was Toxic, Now the West

Staying on the right side of history is tricky in these fast changing times. Back...

June 2017

June 24, 2017

If Worldview Goes, So Does WWJD?

Trying to make politics conform to gospel ends is to miss the ginormous gap between...

June 15, 2017

Jesus Forgives Sins, the United States Doesn’t

If Southern Baptists think their resolution condemning the alt-right will make them right with the...

June 14, 2017

Today’s College Students Can’t Handle the Stones

One of my stations at Pandora is The Moody Blues, one of the bands that...

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 12, 2017

If the Church Needs to Include Caitlyn Jenner, What about Donald Trump?

Rod Dreher writes about his appearance on the On Point NPR show and needing to...

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...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Don’t Tell Marshall Bruce Mathers, III

Apparently when Eminem performs, by Rev. Jemar Tisby's logic, the white rapper is guilty of...

April 13, 2017

Who Says You Can’t Enforce Morality?

While Rod Dreher complains about the dictatorship of moral relativism that has triumphed in the...

March 2017

March 24, 2017

If You Hate Living with the South, then Why Didn’t You Let Them Go?

The ill will President Trump taps. Just when you thought that nationalism and Brexit and...

March 01, 2017

What if the NFL Were a Bigger Deal than Porn?

I know the biblical counselors used to reduce most of the moral law to idolatry,...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried about America Before the Election (part 2)

Dwight Macdonald, a mid-twentieth century Marxist critic who wrote for the New Yorker, New York...

February 14, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried About America before the Election

If you read H. L. Mencken with any sense that he has a point, you...

February 10, 2017

Distinguishing Good Catastrophism from Bad Catastrophism

Again, a hearty thanks to President Trump for restoring clarity to national conversations about a...

February 07, 2017

How Many Times Can the U.S. Lose Its Innocence?

One of my favorite books in grad school was Henry F. May's The End of...

February 03, 2017

Can We Have a National Conversation about Decency?

Today seems about as good as any to raise the question of national standards of...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Remember When Separatism was so Fundamentalist?

Back in the day (and in grad school while studying the history of American evangelicalism),...

January 24, 2017

If Caitlyn Jenner is Normal, Why Can’t Donald Trump Be?

Imagine if elite journalists covered Donald Trump the way they did Caitlyn Jenner. Here's one...

January 06, 2017

Is Jonathan Merritt a Reporter or Church Growth Consultant?

Journalists have had some 'splainin' to do of late after the presidential contest, accusations of...

December 2016

December 29, 2016

The Big Story of 2016 – The Moral Majority Is Alive

The following reaction to Donald Trump's victory is a little dated, but it does illustrate...

December 20, 2016

Scholarly Trigger Warnings

Readers of the historiography of religion in the United States might have sensed a cultural...

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Didn’t Jesus Hang Around with Tax Collectors (and Real Estate Developers)?

Then why do Tony Campolo and Shane Claibornethink that followers of Jesus would repudiate Donald...

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