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2019-01-16T15:45:28-04:00

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Skin in the Scholarly Game

Last updated on: January 16, 2019 at 3:45 pm By D. G. Hart

I, just like John Fea, thought the Bruce Springsteen Broadway show was terrific, and I am not all that big a Boss fan. John saw the show in person. Hillsdale doesn’t pay as well as Messiah so I had to wait for it on Netflix. But it was a highlight of between-semester viewing. It showed what a great lyricist Springsteen is. I wonder if the E Street Band went for too big a sound, one that competed with the song’s... Read more

2016 Presidential Election

2019-01-11T15:45:57-04:00

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Secular Universities Now As Religious as Puritan Harvard

Last updated on: January 11, 2019 at 3:45 pm By D. G. Hart

How’s that for click-bait? But if you thought today’s universities was filled either with secularist lefties or party-going sporting-event spectators, you haven’t been reading. First, from the authors of a new book about religion on campuses: Public and nonsectarian private universities are some of the most religiously diverse places in America. Since the ’60s, they have witnessed an increase in the sheer variety of religious activity, reflecting the rise of campus evangelicalism, the revitalization of Jewish student life, a surge... Read more

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2019-01-10T17:38:59-04:00

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If Phillis Wheatley was an Evangelical in 2018, Is She Still Evangelical in 2019?

Last updated on: January 10, 2019 at 5:38 pm By D. G. Hart

By now the debate about evangelicalism has petered out. (For background, see these posts.) But something remains to be said, at least from that quarter of the Protestant world where church membership matters more than a burning in your bosom. That something has to do with church membership, the ministry of pastors (and other officers), and the standards that set one denomination apart from another. John Fea concluded that all the historical evidence and the seasoned judgments of other historians... Read more

2019-01-07T16:50:05-04:00

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Social Justice and the Problem of Evil

Last updated on: January 7, 2019 at 4:50 pm By D. G. Hart

Why is it that when many Christians talk about the systemic nature of social injustice, they don’t think about theodicy — or the problem of how a good God can allow such enormities to exist and continue? Seldom do I see the prophets of social justice turn skeptical about divine benevolence the way Voltaire did after the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 when 100,000 people died. Nor does there seem to be much on the order Viktor Frankl’s reflection on the... Read more

2016 Presidential Election

2019-01-04T19:20:09-04:00

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Imagine if They Gave to Missions and Church Planting

Last updated on: January 4, 2019 at 7:20 pm By D. G. Hart

Emma Green has a piece on a shift among evangelical philanthropists for which many should give thanks (and maybe give some credit to President Trump). The president is so lacking in dignity and character, that wealthy evangelicals are moving their money out of politics into “charitable causes”: The history of evangelical giving is best understood in terms of waves of institution building, said Andy Crouch, a former executive editor of Christianity Today. The first came after World War II, when... Read more

2018-12-28T12:08:44-04:00

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Evangelical Historians’ Distribution Problem

Last updated on: December 28, 2018 at 12:08 pm By D. G. Hart

Not too long ago, a number of evangelical historians raised questions about how to reach a wider audience, readers and listeners, larger than students in the classroom or peers in a particular niche of academic history. The reflections went under the banner of “the distribution problem.” It started with a post by Raully Donahue about why no evangelical historian could muster a following on the order of C.S. Lewis’ (truth be told, that may be like asking why anyone who... Read more

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2018-12-19T16:41:15-04:00

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Was Phillis Wheatley an Evangelical? (Kidd vs. Merritt part 2)

Last updated on: December 19, 2018 at 4:41 pm By D. G. Hart

In part one I generally took Tommie Kidd’s side on the question of who gets to decide which historical subjects qualify as evangelical. The dust-up on Twitter between the Baylor University historian and Jonathan Merritt, a journalist who writes for the Atlantic and other outlets, started when Kidd called the African-American poet, Phillis Wheatley, an evangelical. Merritt thought that was weird. My initial take was that it was odd for a journalist not to show a tad more deference to... Read more

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2018-12-18T11:23:59-04:00

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Kidd vs. Merritt and Why Journalists Don’t Teach Foreign Policy

Last updated on: December 18, 2018 at 11:23 am By D. G. Hart

John Fea has the details of an exchange on Twitter between Tommie Kidd and Jonathan Merritt on bragging rights for expertise on evangelicalism. It started when Kidd wrote a piece that Joshua Little tweeted on the African-American poet, Phillis Wheatley, as an evangelical. Merritt responded by calling it “weird” to label Wheatley an evangelical. And from there it descended to who has given the most brain cells to the subject of evangelicalism. Merritt tweeted with the sort of bravado others... Read more

2018-12-14T17:23:11-04:00

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Roman Catholic Exceptionalism

Last updated on: December 14, 2018 at 5:23 pm By D. G. Hart

After reading Rusty Reno’s relatively recent laments about sanctity among Roman Catholic clergy (and the culture than enables it), I couldn’t help but remember the old argument for mainline Protestants converting to Rome. The mainline communions had abandoned traditional morality about marriage, sex, and family life — with perhaps women’s ordination thrown in if the convert were that kind of Protestant. At least, the argument went, Rome had sturdy views on sex and marriage and a tradition of maintaining such... Read more

2018-12-13T16:52:14-04:00

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The Problem with History

Last updated on: December 13, 2018 at 4:52 pm By D. G. Hart

Historians are an insecure lot and all the more so with recent developments. First came the glamorous Harvard University historian, Jill Lepore’s verdict that historians had lost an audience with the public, which was easy for her to say since she is a staff writer for The New Yorker. (How many historians can that magazine publish and do they ever take submissions from faculty at Illinois Post-Industrial State University?) Then came news that history majors have declined, an apparent indication... Read more

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