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Do You need a Special Initiative to Do Public Theology (whatever it is)?

Here's the news about Russell Moore leaving the Southern Baptists Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission...

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Politics and not Religion

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

October 16, 2020

Why Doesn’t Joe Biden Talk about Faith the Way the POTUS who Inspired Him Did?

What to make of Joe Biden as a Roman Catholic politician? The categories for evaluating...

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 05, 2020

Only the Amish are Amish, (practically) Everyone Else is Modern

The Amish have thick communities in which members are not autonomous but are deeply embedded...

June 03, 2020

Being Evangelical, Being Gay

The rise of a gay rights movement coincided with the emergence of the religious right...

May 2020

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 29, 2020

David French Has a Theonomy Problem

At the risk of seeming obsessive, a little more attention to David French's political judgments...

April 17, 2020

Pastors as Prophets to the Holy Nation

Why do pastors, Roman Catholic or Protestant, think they may legitimately pontificate -- no pun...

January 2020

January 03, 2020

Can We Go Back to Work Yet?

This is a re-post from 2015 but the length of seasons greetings -- from Thanksgiving...

October 2019

October 25, 2019

What Should Evangelicals Say about Independence for California (I mean Catalonia)?

And now for something completely different, evangelicals in Spain are not in the habit of...

October 17, 2019

Baptize them All, Roman Empire, the United States, and Every Government in Between

What follows is a review essay from 2011 of two books on religion and politics,...

September 2019

September 13, 2019

Christians Want to be Modern, But They Don’t Trust Moderns

If you can believe it, the disagreement between Sohrab Ahmari and David French has gone...

August 2019

August 08, 2019

If the Separation of Church and State is Christian, Isn’t Support for Separation of Church and State Christian Nationalism?

Does Christian nationalism come in only one flavor? According to the signers of Christians Against...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

Lessons from the Bible about Immigration

Here's a passage I have not seen enter discussions about U.S. immigration policy and the...

July 17, 2019

Religion Unregulated

If you walk into the main book browsing area in Harvard Coop (as in oops)...

June 2019

June 25, 2019

Neither Eighty-One nor Nineteen Percent

While evangelical historians continue to lament the majority of born-again Protestants who voted for President...

May 2019

May 22, 2019

New, Old, or Just a Little Stale?

If you follow discussions among Roman Catholics you may know that ever since Vatican II...

May 06, 2019

Presbyterian Theology and Judaism Part Two

If journalists want to dig deeper into the roots of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, they...

March 2019

March 19, 2019

Can Your Civilization Do This?

Do not get me wrong. The West, for all of its faults, is sometimes glorious...

February 2019

February 15, 2019

Even A Liberal Theocracy is Still Theocratic

Alan Cross has to assert several times that in arguing for Christian involvement in politics,...

January 2019

January 30, 2019

Civil Religion Is a Problem, but Will Biblical Religion Save U.S.?

Some evangelical (ambivalently so) historians, like David Swartz, admire politicians like Jimmy Carter and Mark...

November 2018

November 16, 2018

Non-Partisan Social Justice

Lots of Christians talk about social justice but what are they doing besides giving speeches,...

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 28, 2018

If Cats Declare the Glory of God, Why not Unregenerate Truck Drivers?

Joe Carter thinks that after 500 years, Protestants are finally understanding vocation: While vocation is...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Does Religion Drive Politics or Vice Versa?

Looks to me like politics is a bigger influence on religion than Christians transforming culture....

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...

June 2018

June 30, 2018

Civil Religion is a Many Splendored Thing

Joe Carter thinks it is safe to segregate Christianity from American nationalism (on the eve...

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...

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...

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