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January 2018

January 13, 2018

Edgardo Mortara

He may not be a familiar name now, though the recent controversy over Pius IX's...

January 06, 2018

Thick Roman Catholicism?

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

December 2017

December 05, 2017

The Evangelical Narrative Will Not Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together

If you want to be an evangelical in America, you generally need to trace your...

November 2017

November 10, 2017

Wait, Now We Want Religion in the Pulpit?

I continue to be amazed by the positions to which anti-Trumpism leads. Now it seems...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

The Reformation Was about Ending Prosperity Gospel

The Reformation started because Luther objected to a sales pitch.

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...

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....

August 02, 2017

Why You Can’t Get Out of Evangelicalism

Protestants are converting to Rome because evangelicals won’t pony up with structures and norms and...

July 2017

July 28, 2017

Protestants Learned to “Do” Politics from Roman Catholics

If Christians had to argue about politics without riding the high horse of Christian norms,...

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...

April 2017

April 05, 2017

Calvinists Go to Heaven (not sure of everyone else)

Total depravity, the T in the infamous mnemonic, T-U-L-I-P, the so-called Five Points of Calvinism,...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

The Progressive West Supports Islam – Are You Sure?

According to Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Brittany Pheiffer Noble, the Progressive West and the Christian West...

February 2017

February 10, 2017

Distinguishing Good Catastrophism from Bad Catastrophism

Again, a hearty thanks to President Trump for restoring clarity to national conversations about a...

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...

October 05, 2016

President Obama is the Most Christian President Ever

Okay, maybe "ever" is too strong. But if you read his remarks when welcoming Pope...

August 2016

August 17, 2016

Church Unity Eliminates Jobs

That assertion is obvious. If Methodists and Presbyterians both have editors of denominational magazines, then...

July 2016

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...

June 2016

June 21, 2016

Do Christians Really Support Religious Liberty (part one)?

Russell Moore's recent defense of religious freedom for Muslim Americans reassured many: Does religious liberty...

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...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Uh Oh, The Moral World Just Got More Complicated

First comes word that Brazilians love the Confederate Flag: If you guessed Santa Barbara D’Oeste,...

April 22, 2016

Wesleyans (finally) defeat Calvinists

About two decades ago, Donald Dayton and George Marsden had a bit of a kerfuffle...

March 2016

March 16, 2016

Why Expect People Who Don’t Fear God to Act Like They Do?

Jason Jones and John Zmirak think liberals are incoherent at best and dangerous at worst....

February 2016

February 18, 2016

Sometimes You Just Have To

Pope Francis got a lot of attention in the press for uttering the controversial line...

January 2016

January 13, 2016

What Happens When You Find What You Thought You Left Behind?

I can well understand why some mainline Protestants would consider converting to Roman Catholicism. The...

December 2015

December 24, 2015

Ready, Set . . .

I sure hope readers haven't been sneaking Christmas carols into Advent. That might be like...

December 11, 2015

Why the Bible Trumps Tradition

The Roman Catholic liturgy that Dwight Longenecker advocates is further proof of the Protestant understanding...

November 2015

November 20, 2015

Evangelical, Republican, American

The latest poll confirms a definition of evangelicalism that many people find congenial: The NAE

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