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May 2021

May 28, 2021

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...

January 2021

January 15, 2021

What if Christianity is Not Reasonable?

During the era of Trump, lots of evangelical thought leaders have indicated they are not...

December 2020

December 23, 2020

A Genealogy of Alarm

Remember how bad the environment was? The leaders of the Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, Audubon...

October 2020

October 20, 2020

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...

September 2020

September 01, 2020

The Meaning of the Jerry Falwell, Jr. Scandal

Some observers of evangelicalism are obsessed with Falwell, in part seemingly because he is another...

August 2020

August 06, 2020

What About Nostalgia for a View of the Past?

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

July 2020

July 09, 2020

How Evangelicals Can Vote for Joe Biden this November (if the governors let them)

Recent protests along with some of the demands of protesters, no matter how peaceful, may...

June 2020

June 26, 2020

The People Who Support and Erect Monuments

They may be your and my neighbors. One of the themes that emerged in the...

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 28, 2020

David French Must Have Jonah Goldberg Scratching His Head

French and Goldberg used to write for National Review but recently moved to an outlet...

May 21, 2020

I Just Wish Evangelicals Were Consistent

First, they rejected business: Finney preached even more explicitly against the mores of business. “The...

May 15, 2020

Where Integralists (Vermeule) and Americans (Linker) Agree (with Douthat to the rescue)

(For some background on intergralism vs. liberalism, see this and the links included.) Rod Dreher...

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 24, 2020

Resistance Theory for a Global Pandemic

Protestants have a long history of resisting tyrannical governments. It was partly a function of...

April 13, 2020

Pandemic Politics Before COVID-19

"Will I be infected by the virus?" is a question that guides most evangelical arguments...

April 09, 2020

Make America Safe Again

As things stand on April 9, 2020, somewhere on the curves of COVID-19, America is...

April 03, 2020

Who Benefits when Evangelicals Publicly Ridicule Other Evangelicals?

Jonathan Merritt thought the readers of the Daily Beast needed to know how bigoted Franklin...

March 2020

March 25, 2020

Immunology and Numerology

Lots of people are panicking about the spread and threat of COVID-19. Among those fearful...

March 20, 2020

Fear of Death

Some Americans during the current health crisis are worried about death. This fear is fairly...

March 16, 2020

Can You Change Evangelicalism’s Spots after Billy Graham?

Here is part of my review of Thomas Kidd's new book Who Is An Evangelical?...

March 02, 2020

If Evangelical Support for Trump is Toxic, Won’t It also Hurt Bernie?

Polling data shows that the more Americans know about evangelicalism, the more their appreciation for...

November 2019

November 28, 2019

At Least Thanksgiving is not a Partisan Issue (the way it was with the New Deal)

Josh Zeitz explains (did so even before Hillary versus Donald): The president did it again....

November 05, 2019

Defining is not Belonging

Surely if evangelicalism had an ecclesiology, that is a doctrine of the church, church membership...

October 2019

October 24, 2019

Biblical Reparations are Deadly

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

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,...

May 2019

May 24, 2019

What If American Wars Had Turned Out Differently?

From a review of Michael Kazin's War against War: The American Fight for Peace: Kazin...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Great Historian, Pretty Good Awakening

A good friend and great colleague in the study of U.S. history, Leo Ribuffo, has...

November 16, 2018

Non-Partisan Social Justice

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

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