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What About Nostalgia for a View of the Past?

Nostalgia has been on the ropes lately. The reason is apparently a new reckoning with...

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Losing Whitefield

"Trust the science" has been a phrase used fairly often during the pandemic. Recent news...

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Mapping Disease and Religion

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

February 2020

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Increasing Subscriptions by Doing Good

I recently received this email message from Nikole Hannah-Jones. I don't believe she sent it...

January 2020

January 21, 2020

When Racism Changed

In previous posts I have wondered about heightened attention to racism in the United States....

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October 24, 2019

Biblical Reparations are Deadly

Thabiti Anyabwile tries to persuade readers that reparations in the United States for slavery could...

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September 11, 2019

Why Are “Liberals” So Insecure that They Need the Times’ Green Light to Dump on Conservatives?

The New York Times' poor driving skills have already caught my attention and are now...

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August 22, 2019

Covering a Black Man a Year before the 400th Anniversary of Slavery in America

Would Roland Fryer have received a different fate had his case of alleged sexual harassment...

July 2019

July 31, 2019

Make Baltimore Great Again

Actually, the city that has contributed more to national culture than many natives realize --...

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May 14, 2019

#Woke Evangelical Timeline

Jemar Tisby has a new book out contending that the history of the church's complicity...

May 03, 2019

Presbyterian Theology and Judaism Part One

Terry Mattingly asks journalists to keep digging deeper into the "Calvinist" theology that may have...

April 2019

April 09, 2019

New Strategy in Race Relations is Old (thanks to Ben Franklin)

The most recent effort to overcome white supremacy and look for harmony between races is...

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March 29, 2019

Race, the Sabbath, and Resolutions

I wonder if Thabiti Anyabwile will support a resolution condemning the desecration of the Lord's...

March 15, 2019

What Did Evangelicals Know and When Did They Know It?

The National Association of Evangelicals, one of the major institutional outlets for white Protestants who...

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January 10, 2019

If Phillis Wheatley was an Evangelical in 2018, Is She Still Evangelical in 2019?

By now the debate about evangelicalism has petered out. (For background, see these posts.) But...

January 07, 2019

Social Justice and the Problem of Evil

Why is it that when many Christians talk about the systemic nature of social injustice,...

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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...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

Another Take on the EIGHTY-ONE PERCENT

Sometimes the explanations of the number of evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump comes across...

April 12, 2018

Has Thabiti Anyabwile Let Angela Merkel Off the Hook?

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

August 2017

August 29, 2017

Riots In A Fallen World

Peter Moskos (first cited at PPP here), the former Baltimore police officer, who now teaches...

August 17, 2017

Forget about 81%, Think about 1997

Two decades ago, Christine Leigh Heyrman won the Bancroft Prize (the prestigious annual book award...

August 15, 2017

Look How Tim Keller and Donald Trump Agree

Are Americans more prone to believe that Keller or Trump is sincere? And are Christians...

November 2016

November 18, 2016

Scholarship In Black and White

I think I understand the concerns that many Americans have about the president-elect. I have...

September 2016

September 21, 2016

Does This Mean Black Lives Matter is Fundamentalist?

Benjamin Corey thinks fundamentalism is making a come back: American culture is currently experiencing what...

July 2016

July 08, 2016

The Tragedy and Mythology of Law Enforcement

Matthew J. Hall thinks evangelicals need to break the silence on race and speak out....

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...

March 2016

March 11, 2016

Do Apologies Change Anything?

If I were to cheat on my taxes, I could pay the amount I failed...

January 2016

January 05, 2016

Does InterVarsity Endorse All of Black Lives Matter

The news is fairly stale at this point, but the indicators of support for Black...

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August 27, 2015

Speaking of Identity

Do we need a Federal Department of Personal Identity to determine which aspects of ourselves...

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