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Where to Put the Theodore Roosevelt Statue

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

June 18, 2020

Mapping Disease and Religion

FiveThirtyEight carries a story on disease among African-Americans and includes a map of the states...

March 2019

March 25, 2019

The Difference a Degree Makes

People with Ph.D.s do not make a lot of money and the perks of teaching...

March 30, 2018

If Christmas Is on the Same Day Every Year, Why Not Good Friday?

No one really knows on what day Jesus was born. Many biblical scholars understand inferences...

January 2018

January 06, 2018

Thick Roman Catholicism?

What's good for the goose dot dot dot Robert Barron, whose fame came with his...

January 03, 2018

Thick Evangelicalism?

To include a large number of disparate Protestants, you need to overlook important differences —...

November 2017

November 03, 2017

Part of Me

Why do evangelicals specifically and Americans more generally think that religion or politics or some...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

Fed up With Evangelicalism, Try Calvinism

Let's give up evangelicalism. Let Protestant diversity be Protestant diversity.

August 2017

August 24, 2017

Help Wanted: Christian Agnostics

Christians, from pastors and theologians to parents and children, don't have any special insight into...

April 2017

April 03, 2017

A Hymn for Opening Day

Before Watts and Wesley, Protestants pretty much sang only Psalms. During the 1750s members of...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

Christian Intellectuals Are Overrated

Alan Jacob's Harper's piece on the evaporation of Christian intellectuals and his subsequent exchange with...

August 19, 2016

What Would Mohamed or Jesus Do?

Shadi Hamid has a new book out that argues the fit between Islam and modern...

July 2016

July 15, 2016

Do You Need to be an Extrovert to be Evangelical?

The expiration date on the Myers Briggs personality test may have passed, but the differences...

July 07, 2016

Does the Church Also Need to Apologize to Onanists?

For the biblically challenged, onansim is a synonym for masturbation, Onan being that character in...

July 01, 2016

What Does Faith Have to do with Citizenship?

Michael Gerson thinks evangelicals have lost their faith in signing up to support Trump (via...

February 2016

February 12, 2016

If Jesus is My Lover, Does that Make me Gay?

Yes, that's a provocative question, but sometime the excesses of evangelical and New Calvinist piety...

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 08, 2016

Should Reading the Bible Feel Like Exercise?

This is not a new thought but it comes up every year when any number...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

Would Muslims Allow This to Happen to Ramadan?

In light of the recent discussions of Muslim-Christian relations, let me add to doubts surrounding...

September 2015

September 16, 2015

Forget Jeans, What Does Your Pastor Smoke?

Jesse Carey tries to be playful with his commentary on twelve types of jeans and...

September 10, 2015

Why Can’t Christians Fit In?

Daniel McCarthy thinks that evangelical Protestants are never going to get someone like them in...

June 2015

June 19, 2015

Celebrity Congregants

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

June 06, 2015

Presbyterian Revival 2015

Revivalism and Presbyterianism have a long and complicated history. Presbyterians in the United States split...

June 04, 2015

The Importance of Being Earnest

Can someone, anyone, explain why John Piper is so popular among evangelicals? The reason for...

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