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February 2018

February 02, 2018

If Not for Politics, Would Anyone Care about Evangelicalism?

The only reason why anyone who wasn't an evangelical cared was because folks like Jerry...

December 2017

December 15, 2017

Proof of American Greatness

Voters do not have to make the kind of political calculations that haunted Europeans. Here...

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...

August 2017

August 22, 2017

Evangelicals Took Faith Too Seriously

Mark Lilla's new book, The Once and Future Liberal, is gaining some attention as one...

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,...

June 2017

June 24, 2017

If Worldview Goes, So Does WWJD?

Trying to make politics conform to gospel ends is to miss the ginormous gap between...

April 2017

April 20, 2017

What You Give Up To Fit In

America is the land of the free but liberty comes with its limits. Protestants can't...

March 2017

March 15, 2017

If U.S. Survived Andrew Jackson dot dot dot

Can't U.S. survive Donald Trump? Tommie Kidd provides a reminder of the parallels between Jackson...

March 01, 2017

What if the NFL Were a Bigger Deal than Porn?

I know the biblical counselors used to reduce most of the moral law to idolatry,...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Remember When Separatism was so Fundamentalist?

Back in the day (and in grad school while studying the history of American evangelicalism),...

November 2016

November 10, 2016

They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Vote?

Some of us two-kingdom Protestants have been arguing for a while that an approach to...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

Islamic Exceptionalism

Ever since visiting Turkey I have been fascinated by the interaction between Islam and the...

July 2016

July 01, 2016

What Does Faith Have to do with Citizenship?

Michael Gerson thinks evangelicals have lost their faith in signing up to support Trump (via...

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...

June 08, 2016

Evangelicals Have Painted Themselves Morally Into the Corner

Michael Gerson joins the chorus of evangelicals who repudiate Donald Trump: Support for Trump involves...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Socialized Theological Education

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

May 24, 2016

Growing Up Fundamentalist Was Not All Bad

Over at Mere Orthodoxy, Jake Meador has republished an essay that Matthew Lee Anderson wrote...

May 18, 2016

Give ’em a Square Inch And They Take a Mile

Did you ever wonder why pastors, bishops, and popes think -- despite the specialization and...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Would Randy Have John’s Back on Jim?

Jim Wallis that is. Truth be told, I am a historian with certain religious and...

April 20, 2016

Thinking Christianly or Constitutionally

In a review of John Wilsey's new book, American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion, Richard Gamble...

April 14, 2016

Evangelical Chicken and GOP Egg

Which came first? Evangelicalism or Republicanism? You hear a lot from evangelicals who have been...

March 2016

March 25, 2016

The Great Thing about being a Calvinist

You don't have to sweat the commercialization of Easter. Mollie Hemingway, a Lutheran, is right...

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 19, 2016

What’s Wrong With Being Liberal?

It is the season of not wanting to be a Donald-Trump supporter, Islamophobic, and racially...

January 2016

January 22, 2016

Does Academic Freedom Turn All Professors into Theologians?

I think I can understand Tracey McKenzie's sense of relief as a Christian historian in...

January 20, 2016

Why the Comparisons between Jesus and Trump Make Sense

Never have I seen a political candidate with the power to change lives as much...

December 2015

December 09, 2015

America Is not My Home (neither is my kitchen)

Two-kingdom theology is a set of reflections on Christian life that distinguishes between the secular...

November 2015

November 13, 2015

I Don’t Need a Christian Excuse to Boycott Starbucks

Yet more hysteria from cultural Christians about the slights of the wider culture. Mark Bauerlein...

October 2015

October 23, 2015

Would N.T. Wright be Popular If People Knew His Politics?

In a recent talk in London, reports have it that: Wright said that there should...

October 19, 2015

What if Church Establishment Is Only a Principle?

Gene Veith asks for a theological rationale for a state church: What is the theological...

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