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January 2019

January 25, 2019

The Worse it Gets, the More Attractive?

I would have thought that the recent scandals among Rome's bishops would diminish some of...

January 16, 2019

Skin in the Scholarly Game

I, just like John Fea, thought the Bruce Springsteen Broadway show was terrific, and I...

December 2018

December 14, 2018

Roman Catholic Exceptionalism

After reading Rusty Reno's relatively recent laments about sanctity among Roman Catholic clergy (and the...

December 10, 2018

Were the Angels and Shepherds Wrong not to Venerate Mary?

Roman Catholics recently (Dec. 5 8) celebrated or observed (or marked) The Feast of the...

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 26, 2018

Is Evangelical the Only Kind of Protestant?

Roger Olson observes that the current critics of evangelicalism, the so-called voices from the margins,...

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...

November 12, 2018

Teaching the Integration of Church and State while Teaching the Separation of Church and State

John Allen, one of the best Roman Catholic journalists covering the Vatican, called it "Weird...

October 2018

October 12, 2018

Fellowship with Fellow Historians

Call me grumpy, call me a naysayer, or call me a Reformed Protestant (read Calvinist)....

September 2018

September 26, 2018

Doubts about One Accuser, Credibility for Another

What would happen if the reporters and editors at Time were as hard on Christine...

September 21, 2018

Protestantism as Chopped Liver

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

September 19, 2018

Is American Roman Catholicism Roman Catholic

Massimo Faggioli, who teaches theology at Villanova, is always provocative even if you don't agree....

September 13, 2018

How Shall They Hear or How Shall They Taste?

Now seems to be one of those teaching moments about the Reformation. Despite celebrations and...

September 06, 2018

Why Roman Catholicism is Special

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

September 04, 2018

How Much Does Doctrine Matter?

For Damon Linker, what convinced him to become Roman Catholic was not doctrine but beauty....

August 2018

August 29, 2018

A Fleet or Two Ships Passing in the Night

David French at National Review argues that Protestants have a stake in the sex scandal...

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...

August 17, 2018

Does Roman Catholicism Need a Theory Now?

The release of a new book (by me) on the value of the Protestant Reformation...

July 2018

July 13, 2018

Keeping Justice and Forgiveness Straight

The Democratic nominee in New York's fourteenth congressional district, Alexandrio Ocasio-Cortez, would have her possible...

May 2018

May 25, 2018

Are Some (of Paige Patterson’s) Sins More Heinous than Others?

In the land of Presbyterianism, we profess, with the Westminster Shorter Catechism, that "some sins...

May 17, 2018

Who Would Have Thought the Shelf Life on Richard John Neuhaus’ Legacy Would Be This Short

When Neuhaus died almost a decade ago, the former Lutheran pastor turned Roman Catholic and...

April 2018

April 23, 2018

Left Behind

Paul Elie reviews Ross Douthat's new book on Pope Francis. Notice what he leaves out...

April 04, 2018

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 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...

March 01, 2018

Is Billy Graham in Purgatory?

This is not a question that many have seemed to consider since the praise for...

February 2018

February 16, 2018

Is Roman Catholicism Un-American?

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

February 14, 2018

The Valentine’s Dilemma for Protestants

Lots of Roman Catholic authors are writing about the conflict between Ash Wednesday and Valentine's...

February 09, 2018

Is Calvinism Un-American?

The reason for asking is that Reformed Protestants (the better name for Calvinism) don't believe...

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...

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