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Does Place Matter More than Faith?

At the beginning of this week, John Fea posted several key races in state and...

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Did Greg Laurie Take a Seminar on Colonial American Religion in the 1980s?

John Fea thinks Greg Laurie, the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship who spoke at...

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Does Religion Drive Politics or Vice Versa?

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

August 13, 2018

Why Can’t Progressives Make Up Their Minds?

Another odd aspect of President Obama's speech in South Africa was his conflicting rhetoric about...

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When Wealth Makes You Uncomfortable (or when it doesn’t)

A few weeks ago, President Obama spoke in South Africa and made a surprising admission:...

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Why Mike Pence Would Not Speak to Presbyterians

One reason is that Presbyterians are nowhere near as large (and in charge) as Southern...

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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...

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France Does Not Have This Problem (which may not be a good thing)

Thomas Chatterton Williams chastises Ta-Nehisi Coates for ripping Kanye West. First Coates: When Jackson sang...

April 2018

April 09, 2018

New Calvinists and Red Letter Christians Together

The Gospel Coalition held a conference to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...

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February 07, 2018

What Are the Chances that James Comey Saw “Three Days of the Condor”?

Political and social conservatives in the U.S. constantly lament that the mainstream institutions -- universities,...

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October 06, 2017

The Greatest Show on Earth

I was catching up on Bloggingheads TV podcasts this morning and heard Robert Wright (around...

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September 21, 2017

Evangelicalism B.T. (Before Trump)

The year 2016 changed nothing.

September 08, 2017

Explaining Signers of Statements and Letters

Here is a follow up on the recent post that contrasted those scholars who signed...

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August 29, 2017

Riots In A Fallen World

Peter Moskos (first cited at PPP here), the former Baltimore police officer, who now teaches...

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June 15, 2017

Jesus Forgives Sins, the United States Doesn’t

If Southern Baptists think their resolution condemning the alt-right will make them right with the...

June 09, 2017

Not Everyone Loves Niebuhr

I for one think Christians should be wary of cheering for fellow Christians in public...

June 07, 2017

Illiberal Freedom?

Now that we have illiberal democracy in the United States, maybe we can also consider...

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April 18, 2017

When it Comes to Denying Truth, Forget Foucault and Rorty but Remember Falwell

Molly Worthen heaps scorn on the evangelicals who voted for Trump by blaming our post-truth...

April 07, 2017

Do We Need a National Menu to go with Affordable Health Care?

Turns out when you make food affordable, you increase the costs of health care. Addison...

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...

March 17, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried About America Before the Election (part 4)

Christopher Lasch, a gifted intellectual historian, perhaps best remembered for supplying President Jimmy Carter with...

February 2017

February 22, 2017

America’s Original Greatness

Once upon a time, Americans celebrated George Washington's birthday on February 22, 1732. Now that...

February 14, 2017

Some of Us Were Worried About America before the Election

If you read H. L. Mencken with any sense that he has a point, you...

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),...

December 2016

December 22, 2016

The Rewards of Scholarly Trigger Warnings

As much as Daniel Williams bent over backwards to be sensitive to opponents shocked by...

October 2016

October 22, 2016

Let George Washington Be George Washington

Why do American Christians -- used to be mainly Protestants but now Roman Catholics are...

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 11, 2016

Damned If You Do, Dead if You Don’t

Trigger warning: this post may sound excessively pro-police. Don't blame me. Blame David Simon, the...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

Did Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter Make the Crooked Places Straight for Donald Trump?

A few years ago, Americans watched a protest movement take shape designed at getting rid...

June 2016

June 15, 2016

So Far Everyone Agrees on Orlando as the Place

From 1847 to 1857 if we believe Wikipedia, the City of Orlando was known as...

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