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July 2019

July 18, 2019

Trump May Be the Least of Evangelicals’ Troubles

If I had a dime for every article or post since 2016 by an evangelical...

July 09, 2019

The Main Thing about Evangelicalism

Born-again Protestantism was always tricky to define, but evangelical support for President Trump has sent...

January 2019

January 30, 2019

Civil Religion Is a Problem, but Will Biblical Religion Save U.S.?

Some evangelical (ambivalently so) historians, like David Swartz, admire politicians like Jimmy Carter and Mark...

December 2018

December 19, 2018

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

In part one I generally took Tommie Kidd's side on the question of who gets...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

Has President Trump Turned Evangelicals (the 19%) into Fundamentalists?

Last week I had a brief exchange with Heath Carter about the limitations of George...

March 2018

March 14, 2018

Billy Graham as Rorschach Test

Some call it confirmation bias, others wishful thinking. Confirmation bias (link is external)occurs from the...

March 01, 2018

Is Billy Graham in Purgatory?

This is not a question that many have seemed to consider since the praise for...

February 2018

February 23, 2018

When Religious Historians Get Religion

Remember the good old days when historicism taught us that fundamentalists were sort of silly...

February 16, 2018

Is Roman Catholicism Un-American?

Many Protestants until around 1975 thought so. Lyman Beecher, the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe...

December 2017

December 22, 2017

The New Yorker Now Carries Water for New Evangelicalism?

What did Tim Keller know, and when did he know it? That is the question...

December 19, 2017

Evangelicalism Is a Subset of Protestantism

With some born-again Protestants in the United States feeling nervous about evangelicalism as an identity...

December 05, 2017

The Evangelical Narrative Will Not Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together

If you want to be an evangelical in America, you generally need to trace your...

July 2017

July 26, 2017

Politics is What White (and many Black) Protestants Do

Why is this so hard? Historians who study religion are falling all over themselves to...

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),...

January 18, 2017

Trump Makes It Okay to Talk about the Graham Family’s Dark Side

Just when you thought it was safe to pick up a newspaper, out comes the...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Evangelicalism Outside the Gate

This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Faith in...

July 07, 2015

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

While folks are still sorting out the Supreme Court's decision on same-sex marriage, a little...

June 2015

June 06, 2015

Presbyterian Revival 2015

Revivalism and Presbyterianism have a long and complicated history. Presbyterians in the United States split...

March 2015

March 26, 2015

Now Apocalyptics All

It looks like Pope Francis and ISIS share more than most people think. Crawford Gribben,...

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