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Has Thabiti Anyabwile Let Angela Merkel Off the Hook?

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

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Is Philadelphia More Exciting Now than in 1776?

Your correspondent is as his tagline indicates a fan of Philadelphia sports and this is...

March 2018

March 16, 2018

Would You Die for the Nation?

Alasdair MacIntyre complained about the modern nation-state almost 25 years ago in ways that foreshadowed...

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American Exceptionalism as Obama Nostalgia

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

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December 05, 2017

The Evangelical Narrative Will Not Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together

If you want to be an evangelical in America, you generally need to trace your...

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November 14, 2017

What Calvinism Solves

Does liberalism contain the seeds of its own destruction?

September 2017

September 28, 2017

How to Honor Rebels

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

July 2017

July 26, 2017

Politics is What White (and many Black) Protestants Do

Why is this so hard? Historians who study religion are falling all over themselves to...

July 20, 2017

Follow the Bouncing Evangelical Ball

Readers may be hard pressed to figure out what some have recently written about evangelical...

July 04, 2017

What Patriotism Isn’t

Sean Michael Winters corrects against two popular errors. The first is to blame America: The...

July 04, 2017

Ecclesiastical Independence

Where does the American War for Independence mesh with the Protestant Reformation? The short answer...

June 2017

June 09, 2017

Not Everyone Loves Niebuhr

I for one think Christians should be wary of cheering for fellow Christians in public...

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 15, 2017

If U.S. Survived Andrew Jackson dot dot dot

Can't U.S. survive Donald Trump? Tommie Kidd provides a reminder of the parallels between Jackson...

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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 08, 2016

The Re-Birth of White Christian America

Disclaimer: Sweet Briar College is neither exclusively Christian nor all-white. This post's intention is not...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

Did Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter Make the Crooked Places Straight for Donald Trump?

A few years ago, Americans watched a protest movement take shape designed at getting rid...

June 2016

June 15, 2016

So Far Everyone Agrees on Orlando as the Place

From 1847 to 1857 if we believe Wikipedia, the City of Orlando was known as...

June 08, 2016

Evangelicals Have Painted Themselves Morally Into the Corner

Michael Gerson joins the chorus of evangelicals who repudiate Donald Trump: Support for Trump involves...

May 2016

May 11, 2016

America First

Don't let all that prejudice against Donald Trump get in the way of understanding an...

April 2016

April 20, 2016

Thinking Christianly or Constitutionally

In a review of John Wilsey's new book, American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion, Richard Gamble...

March 2016

March 04, 2016

The Way Past American Exceptionalism

Christian critics of the United States often have a point. The nation is guilty of...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

Confused about Trump, Think Driscoll

A couple of evangelical authors are puzzled about the phenomenon of Donald Trump. First our...

August 18, 2015

Same-Sex Foreign Policy

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

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