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September 2018

September 21, 2018

Protestantism as Chopped Liver

An editorial at Commonweal Magazine responds to Damon Linker's exit from the Roman Catholic Church...

September 06, 2018

Why Roman Catholicism is Special

In response to the current crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, a priest in Santa...

August 2018

August 24, 2018

Second-Class Christians

This was one of the first times I've seen a recognition that Protestants are indeed...

August 20, 2018

Why No Roman Catholic Conversions to Protestant Churches?

With the release of Pope Francis' letter in support of the victims of sexual abuse...

June 2018

June 22, 2018

Why Mike Pence Would Not Speak to Presbyterians

One reason is that Presbyterians are nowhere near as large (and in charge) as Southern...

June 07, 2018

Reformed Does Not Equal Calvinist

One of the best features of Paul Schrader's new film, First Reformed, is that it...

May 2018

May 15, 2018

If Politics Undermines Theology, Why Is Your Theological Affirmation So Political?

Yet another evangelical statement is seeking signatures. Reclaiming Jesus is a "Confession in a Time...

March 2018

March 12, 2018

How Much do Christians Care about Theology (and should they)?

Massimo Faggioli is a theologian who teaches at Villanova. With a name like that (trigger...

February 2018

February 21, 2018

If Evangelicals Voted for Hillary They Would Still be Hypocritical

The daily barrage of outrage over evangelical support for Trump continues. Last week at Time...

February 16, 2018

Is Roman Catholicism Un-American?

Many Protestants until around 1975 thought so. Lyman Beecher, the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe...

January 2018

January 22, 2018

What Would Luther Do?

The controversy over the papacy's abduction of a Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, continues and reveals...

December 2017

December 19, 2017

Evangelicalism Is a Subset of Protestantism

With some born-again Protestants in the United States feeling nervous about evangelicalism as an identity...

December 07, 2017

Evangelicals Talk Funny

Another reason for questioning the unifying character of evangelicalism is the way rank-and-file born again...

November 2017

November 09, 2017

Whatever Happened to Doing All for the Glory of God — even Watching Movies?

I have been reading a surprising number of recent posts that raise questions about whether...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

The Reformation Was about Ending Prosperity Gospel

The Reformation started because Luther objected to a sales pitch.

October 25, 2017

If Not Evangelical, What?

The idea of abandoning evangelicalism is not new. Low Tide How is it that a...

October 19, 2017

What Fundamentalists Got Right

Funny how fundamentalists were worried precisely about a vacuous, moralistic faith a century ago. But...

October 05, 2017

If You Read with the Church, May you Blog Alone?

Rare is the ill will coming from either side of the Tiber in this year...

September 2017

September 19, 2017

The Social Teaching of the Reformed Churches

Daniel Kishi mentions worthy sources for conservative critiques of corporate wealth such as Amazon's acquisition...

September 15, 2017

Fed up With Evangelicalism, Try Calvinism

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

August 2017

August 11, 2017

Giving Your Testimony is what Protestants Do (even when they become Roman Catholic)

Last month we (some of us) read about Elizabeth Bruenig's conversion from Protestantism to Rome....

July 2017

July 04, 2017

Ecclesiastical Independence

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

June 2017

June 02, 2017

Don’t Blame the Reformation

Supposedly the rise of Protestantism upended the glorious harmony of Christendom and the Roman Catholic...

May 2017

May 19, 2017

Can You Imagine An English Department Agreeing on Shakespeare?

So why does Dwight Longenecker think that his appeal to 2000 years of church teaching...

February 2017

February 07, 2017

How Many Times Can the U.S. Lose Its Innocence?

One of my favorite books in grad school was Henry F. May's The End of...

December 2016

December 28, 2016

Fake News, Fake Narratives

Americans have heard a lot about the dangers of fake news of late and before...

October 2016

October 14, 2016

Of Two Minds (but one has a higher pay grade)

Observing Roman Catholics warming up for the five hundredth anniversary of the Reformation presents its...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

A Myth Destroyed Is Not History Understood

Rodney Stark's new book, Bearing False Witness, a volume that debunks Protestant myths (some of...

May 27, 2016

Socialized Theological Education

News that Andover Newton Seminary is moving to Yale Divinity School (the theological world's version...

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...

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