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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 15, 2016

Didn’t Evangelicals Vote Overwhelmingly for George W. Bush?

So what's so bad about voting for Donald Trump? Katelyn Beaty explains: This election, I...

November 10, 2016

They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Vote?

Some of us two-kingdom Protestants have been arguing for a while that an approach to...

October 2016

October 27, 2016

Speak Truth to Lena Dunham

The news of Donald Trump's vulgar comments is a little stale but criticisms of the...

October 11, 2016

What Would Donald Trump Say about Beyonce?

One could well imagine. And if the comments came in a locker room setting, the...

September 2016

September 15, 2016

Can You Be Progressive and Intolerant?

A theme that goes around in evangelical circles is how born-again Protestants were once on...

August 2016

August 24, 2016

What is the Shelf-Life on Memory?

Are Europeans in the EU allowed to remember Europe's Christendom past? Are Armenians allowed to...

August 10, 2016

If You Celebrate the American Founding, Legalize Drugs

The results of this recent poll got me thinking (it's rare). According to the Barna...

August 02, 2016

What Must Evangelicals Do To Be Saved (from Donald Trump)?

Don't do what some Roman Catholics advocate: We attend a special Rosary group when we...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

History as Seeing What You Want To

As evangelical historians discuss the merits of regular historians' opposition to Donald Trump, another religious...

July 08, 2016

The Tragedy and Mythology of Law Enforcement

Matthew J. Hall thinks evangelicals need to break the silence on race and speak out....

June 2016

June 30, 2016

Turkish Lives Matter

Why so much anguish about the shootings in Orlando but nothing (that I've seen so...

June 23, 2016

Do Christians Really Support Religious Liberty (part two)?

The first of this two-part series raised questions about an understanding of religion that so...

June 21, 2016

Do Christians Really Support Religious Liberty (part one)?

Russell Moore's recent defense of religious freedom for Muslim Americans reassured many: Does religious liberty...

May 2016

May 06, 2016

Marriage and the End of Moral Outrage

More news about Joe Paterno and his involvement in covering up Jerry Sandusky's sexual molestation...

May 04, 2016

Reverse Self-Righteousness

OneWheaton has come out strongly against Wheaton College for not denouncing alumnus Dennis Hastert after...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Uh Oh, The Moral World Just Got More Complicated

First comes word that Brazilians love the Confederate Flag: If you guessed Santa Barbara D’Oeste,...

April 08, 2016

Blame the Anti-Smoking Social Justice Warriors

I still remember walking through a park in a southern California city and experiencing a...

April 07, 2016

Can Guys Who Look at Porn Be Victims Too?

Has the desire not to be Donald Trump become so pronounced that anti-Trump Christians are...

March 2016

March 16, 2016

Why Expect People Who Don’t Fear God to Act Like They Do?

Jason Jones and John Zmirak think liberals are incoherent at best and dangerous at worst....

February 2016

February 11, 2016

Why I Won’t Be Observing Lent

Peter Leithart proposes reasons for Protestants to observe Lent. I'm still not buying. PL: Lent...

January 2016

January 27, 2016

What Questions Should Christians ask of Presidential Candidates?

It was a bit of harmonic convergence that I read in the same day two...

October 2015

October 22, 2015

The PG Bible

Most Americans are familiar with Thomas Jefferson's edition of the Bible, the one in which...

August 2015

August 18, 2015

Same-Sex Foreign Policy

This post may be a tad stale, but it is a consideration that is hardly...

August 13, 2015

What If I Simply Want My Clothes To Fit?

Joseph Epstein remarked in one of his many essays that men when they turn fifty-eight...

August 07, 2015

Truth about Dirty Tricks

I see lots of Christians concerned about truth and integrity. Marriage and truth. Integrity and...

August 04, 2015

Freedom of Religion to Disobey God — Say More about That

A curious feature of the ongoing and understandable outrage over the videos of Planned Parenthood...

June 2015

June 19, 2015

Celebrity Congregants

People complain about celebrity pastors. Fame can make a pastor unaccountable, a lone ranger. It...

May 2015

May 18, 2015

Has He Shopped At Walmart Lately?

Patrick Deneen's comments about Indiana's RFRA has been making the rounds but they leave me...

February 2015

February 11, 2015

Is It Okay to Skim?

This read-the-Bible-in-a-year resolution is a challenge (even though the daily portions -- about three-and-a-half pages...

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