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March 2021

March 05, 2021

Was America Founded A Roman Catholic Country? (with a Spanish accent)

The previous post included the observation that tracing the United States' roots to a Christian...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

Was America Founded A Roman Catholic Country?

I appreciate Jeff Polet's point about the problems of talking about an American Founding: A...

February 04, 2021

When Roman Catholics Feel a Little Protestant (and even Trumpy)

Many have faulted former President Trump's 1776 Commission for not being historical and not even...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

Virtue Hiding

By now everyone knows about virtue signaling, the way to show you are good, decent,...

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 26, 2020

The People Who Support and Erect Monuments

They may be your and my neighbors. One of the themes that emerged in the...

June 24, 2020

Where to Put the Theodore Roosevelt Statue

Not there! New York City's Natural History Museum, with the blessing of Mayor Bill DeBlasio,...

May 2020

May 15, 2020

Where Integralists (Vermeule) and Americans (Linker) Agree (with Douthat to the rescue)

(For some background on intergralism vs. liberalism, see this and the links included.) Rod Dreher...

April 2020

April 17, 2020

Pastors as Prophets to the Holy Nation

Why do pastors, Roman Catholic or Protestant, think they may legitimately pontificate -- no pun...

April 09, 2020

Make America Safe Again

As things stand on April 9, 2020, somewhere on the curves of COVID-19, America is...

December 2019

December 19, 2019

Boris Johnson and the Hypocrisy of British Evangelicals (not really)

With all the scorn directed at U.S. evangelicals over their vote and support for Donald...

October 2019

October 11, 2019

Tribal Sovereignty Day?

Americans struggle with history. The day normally allotted to Christopher Columbus is on the horizon...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

When Extremism Goes Mainstream

Josh Tait (@joshua_a_tait), who studies the history of American conservatism in a Ph.D. program, mentioned...

August 08, 2019

If the Separation of Church and State is Christian, Isn’t Support for Separation of Church and State Christian Nationalism?

Does Christian nationalism come in only one flavor? According to the signers of Christians Against...

July 2019

July 03, 2019

Colin Kaepernick is a Good Test for David French-ism

With news that Nike has chosen to side with a man over a woman, Colin...

May 2019

May 10, 2019

Orthodox Presbyterians’ Fifteen Minutes of Infamy

More people enter the conservation room about the ties between conservative Presbyterian theology and anti-semitism...

January 2019

January 30, 2019

Civil Religion Is a Problem, but Will Biblical Religion Save U.S.?

Some evangelical (ambivalently so) historians, like David Swartz, admire politicians like Jimmy Carter and Mark...

January 25, 2019

The Worse it Gets, the More Attractive?

I would have thought that the recent scandals among Rome's bishops would diminish some of...

November 2018

November 08, 2018

Does Place Matter More than Faith?

At the beginning of this week, John Fea posted several key races in state and...

November 07, 2018

Birthright Citizenship is Presbyterian, Opposition is Baptist

Learned discussions of whether to grant citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to parents...

November 02, 2018

Get Rid of the National Anthem?

The antidote to the controversy over NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem may actually...

September 2018

September 11, 2018

If We May Say God Bless, What about God D—?

On the anniversary of 9-11, comes below a piece written shortly after the attack in...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Does Religion Drive Politics or Vice Versa?

Looks to me like politics is a bigger influence on religion than Christians transforming culture....

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 30, 2018

Civil Religion is a Many Splendored Thing

Joe Carter thinks it is safe to segregate Christianity from American nationalism (on the eve...

June 29, 2018

Evangelicalism and Tribalism

Here is a thought experiment for those who think the evangelicals who voted for Trump...

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...

May 2018

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 09, 2018

France Does Not Have This Problem (which may not be a good thing)

Thomas Chatterton Williams chastises Ta-Nehisi Coates for ripping Kanye West. First Coates: When Jackson sang...

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