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2018-11-14T15:52:19-04:00

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When Pastors Won’t Stay in the Pocket

Last updated on: November 14, 2018 at 3:52 pm By D. G. Hart

Once upon a time, Protestant congregations had pulpits. This was a form of church furniture, a glorified lectern as it where, behind which pastors read the text for their sermon and preached it to boot. Today, contemporary design of church buildings makes little of fixed places for anyone participating in worship, except for the drummer who may be quarantined in a drum shield. The following comes from the 2003 summer issue of the Nicotine Theological Journal, a time when technology... Read more

National Football League

2018-11-12T18:15:43-04:00

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Teaching the Integration of Church and State while Teaching the Separation of Church and State

Last updated on: November 12, 2018 at 6:15 pm By D. G. Hart

John Allen, one of the best Roman Catholic journalists covering the Vatican, called it “Weird Catholic Twitter.” It may also be “Weird Constitutional Law” at Harvard Law School since one of the members of Weird Catholic Twitter is Adrian Vermeule who teaches Con Law at Harvard. What makes this “weird” is the growing appeal of integralism, a piece of Roman Catholic political theology that is fundamentally at odds with the liberalism of the U.S. Constitution and its separation of church... Read more

2018-11-08T18:06:31-04:00

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Does Place Matter More than Faith?

Last updated on: November 8, 2018 at 6:06 pm By D. G. Hart

At the beginning of this week, John Fea posted several key races in state and federal contests where evangelicals were either running for office or where evangelical voters would be decisive in the outcome. Here are the races he pinpointed with the outcome: In Texas, there is some anecdotal evidence that some white evangelical women might vote for Beto O’Rourke in the state’s U.S. Senate race. But this is just anecdotal evidence. Most white evangelical women will vote for Ted... Read more

2018-11-07T18:02:15-04:00

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Birthright Citizenship is Presbyterian, Opposition is Baptist

Last updated on: November 7, 2018 at 6:02 pm By D. G. Hart

Learned discussions of whether to grant citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to parents who are not citizens are available elsewhere and some are very good. For all of the e-ink that Christians have spilled on the issue I am surprised that no one has actually likened the situation to questions about infant baptism or even the Puritans and the Halfway Covenant. In that latter matter, New England Protestants, who baptized babies, had to decide whether to baptize the... Read more

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2018-11-02T17:14:33-04:00

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Get Rid of the National Anthem?

Last updated on: November 2, 2018 at 5:14 pm By D. G. Hart

The antidote to the controversy over NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem may actually be to abandon it altogether. Bill Kauffman explains that the reasons for adopting the song of Francis Scott Key, over a century after its creation, were full of equivocation: In the slough of the Depression, Herbert Hoover, the humanitarian engineer from Iowa, said that “what this country needs is a great poem. Something to lift people out of fear and selfishness.” But all the good... Read more

2018-10-12T17:09:49-04:00

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Fellowship with Fellow Historians

Last updated on: October 12, 2018 at 5:09 pm By D. G. Hart

Call me grumpy, call me a naysayer, or call me a Reformed Protestant (read Calvinist). But I need to offer a bit of dissent from the recent expressions of praise for the Conference on Faith and History which convened last weekend at Calvin (soon to be University) College. John Turner has not been the only one to weigh in. So too have Chris Gehrz and John Fea. Almost all of the estimates have been positive and Turner’s is particularly worth... Read more

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scandal of the evangelical mind

2018-10-11T15:29:35-04:00

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

Last updated on: October 11, 2018 at 3:29 pm By D. G. Hart

John Fea thinks Greg Laurie, the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship who spoke at the White House recently, was a bit off when according to a report he reassured President Trump and guests with this historical insight: Laurie reminded those in attendance for the dinner that the U.S. was “founded in a time of spiritual revival.” “One of our founding fathers named George — not Washington but Whitefield, an evangelist from England — preached the Gospel and thousands of... Read more

Civil Religion

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First Pretty Good Awakening

2018-10-04T14:41:48-04:00

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Worship as Homeroom

Last updated on: October 4, 2018 at 2:41 pm By D. G. Hart

A golden oldie from Recovering Mother Kirk: The strategy of many churches that want to grow and make an impact (or “transform the culture,” in Reformed lingo) is to sponsor a variety of programs designed to meet the felt needs of residents in the vicinity. This way of growing the local church has had a profound effect upon worship and says volumes about the way evangelicals regard the task of the church. If the real work of the church is... Read more

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2018-10-04T17:48:49-04:00

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Before Kavanaugh, Mencken

Last updated on: October 4, 2018 at 5:48 pm By D. G. Hart

White men can become toxic for different reasons. Once it happens, it’s almost impossible to recover. H.L. Mencken’s reputation is one example. Here’s an excerpt from a recent article about the freedom that American ideals give to persons to hang themselves: The Mencken Club has been in the news lately thanks to the White House’s termination of speechwriter Darren Beattie. His offense was speaking at the Mencken Club in 2016 alongside the alt-right journalist Peter Brimelow. Richard Spencer, one of... Read more

2018-09-28T14:52:55-04:00

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

Last updated on: September 28, 2018 at 2:52 pm By D. G. Hart

Joe Carter thinks that after 500 years, Protestants are finally understanding vocation: While vocation is broader than just our occupation, our jobs are often a primary way we serve our neighbors. As TGC’s Theological Vision for Ministry states, “Christians glorify God not only through the ministry of the Word, but also through their vocations of agriculture, art, business, government, scholarship—all for God’s glory and the furtherance of the public good. Too many Christians have learned to seal off their faith–beliefs... Read more

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