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February 2021

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...

January 2021

January 13, 2021

Those Were the Days

Presbyterians and Puritans used to matter. Today, they rarely make the news. Baptists and Mormons...

October 2020

October 20, 2020

Politics and not Religion

What if economics and geography matter more than religion for electoral outcomes? Ken Woodward discussed...

July 2020

July 24, 2020

Christians Favor Secularism if the Option is Islam

The objections to the news that Turkey plans to use Hagia Sophia as a mosque...

June 2020

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,...

June 08, 2020

Maybe Rusty Reno Had A Point

Back at the beginning of the various state and federal directives to stay at home...

May 2020

May 20, 2020

How Weird is Episcopacy?

The piece by Tara Isabella Burton in the New York Times on weird Christianity is...

May 12, 2020

Can Love Save Liberalism

Liberalism is on the rocks and it is not coming from conservative talk-radio hosts. For...

April 2020

April 24, 2020

Resistance Theory for a Global Pandemic

Protestants have a long history of resisting tyrannical governments. It was partly a function of...

April 02, 2020

Rusty Reno Gets Backup From Tim Keller (sort of)

Reno is not happy with how the church in NYC or the Governor of New...

February 2020

February 06, 2020

No Words, No Real Presence

Protestant converts to Roman Catholicism will often refer to the power of Christ's real presence...

January 2020

January 24, 2020

Exvangelicals before Exvangelicals

In 2016 lots of evangelicals voted for Donald Trump -- I've heard EIGHTY-ONE PERCENT!!! did....

January 17, 2020

Still Inadequate

George Weigel has lots of counsel for Roman Catholics in the New Year, especially how...

January 14, 2020

Have the Worship Wars Returned?

The peak of controversy among Protestants over worship (especially Praise and Worship versus traditional) was...

December 2019

December 25, 2019

It’s a Long Season

For anyone who tires of the pop singers crooning about Our Lord, the sales, the...

December 05, 2019

When All Protestants in the United States were Evangelical

Those were the days: At the beginning of the twentieth century this distinction between mainline...

November 2019

November 26, 2019

Why Do Southern Baptists Care about Sideline Presbyterians?

Something odd happened on social media. Beth Moore tweeted this: Apparently, she did not realize...

November 08, 2019

If You Don’t Want to be An Evangelical, Become a Protestant

I am not sure if any form of Protestantism will satisfy #Exvangelicals, aside from mainline...

November 05, 2019

Defining is not Belonging

Surely if evangelicalism had an ecclesiology, that is a doctrine of the church, church membership...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

Is a Protestant Who Becomes Roman Catholic a Convert?

With news of J. D. Vance's entrance into communion with the Roman Catholic Church, it...

August 15, 2019

What Hath the Great Commission To Do with Renaissance Humanism?

As faculty and students are gearing up for another year of college, those in higher...

June 2019

June 21, 2019

Ecumenism between the White Lines

Roman Catholics worrying about whether to stay in the church has dissipated somewhat since the...

May 2019

May 07, 2019

Jewish Americans and Presbyterian Theology

Some journalists who want to report on the connections between the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and...

May 01, 2019

All of Me or Hyphenated Me

I have a friend who is of Polish and Italian descent but his father is...

April 2019

April 16, 2019

What about “Their” Lady?

The fire in Paris and damage to Notre Dame is, it goes without saying, awful....

April 11, 2019

Pope to Protestants – Epic Fail (or not)

Benedict XVI, the pope who resigned in 2014, has written an essay on the sexual...

April 01, 2019

Being Reformed is Hard (and so few have tried it)

They asked and I accepted. Christian History Institute requested an essay about John Williamson Nevin,...

March 2019

March 06, 2019

Radical Christianity and Christian Culture

Some Christians are uncomfortable either with their world or their place in it. The rise...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

Are Protestants who Convert Christians before Conversion?

Matthew Schmitz must be a terrific poker player. At a time when the reasons for...

November 19, 2018

How Big is the Current Crisis for Roman Catholics?

On the one hand, the further revelations of cases of sexual abuse and episcopal cover-up...

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