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September 2020

September 07, 2020

Jerry Falwell Jr., We Never Knew You

Not that the former president of Liberty University didn't make for some titillating headlines, but...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

Christian Freedom is Neither Blue nor Red

On Reformation Day, mentions of Martin Luther are legion. This post is not about Luther...

August 2019

August 08, 2019

If the Separation of Church and State is Christian, Isn’t Support for Separation of Church and State Christian Nationalism?

Does Christian nationalism come in only one flavor? According to the signers of Christians Against...

June 2019

June 04, 2019

All the News That’s Civil

In 1977 the magazine, Christianity Today, the flagship publication for movement evangelicalism, relocated from Washington,...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

The NHL, Evangelicals, and POTUS

In light of last night's first game in the Stanley Cup between Boston and St....

March 2019

March 01, 2019

More Outlets Doesn’t Mean More Readers (or Listeners)

Chris Gehrz makes a case for historians producing podcasts as a way of reaching a...

January 2019

January 10, 2019

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

By now the debate about evangelicalism has petered out. (For background, see these posts.) But...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

Evangelical Historians’ Distribution Problem

Not too long ago, a number of evangelical historians raised questions about how to reach...

July 2018

July 25, 2018

Oregon Before Portlandia

The missus and I just finished another very good Netflix documentary, Wild Wild Country, about...

June 2018

June 15, 2018

If You Think Vice President Pence is Bad, Have You Considered Henry VIII?

Mike Pence is a follower of the Billy Graham Rule, the one where a married...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Everyone’s an Evangelical

Chris Gehrz observes well how plastic the word is and so how big a hurdle...

December 2017

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...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

Fed up With Evangelicalism, Try Calvinism

Let's give up evangelicalism. Let Protestant diversity be Protestant diversity.

September 05, 2017

You Gotta Offend Somebody

Two kinds of evangelicals: those who worry about offending certain groups and those who are...

November 2016

November 04, 2016

Taking the Temperature of the Evangelical Mind

After meeting at Regent University for the biennial gathering of the Conference on Faith and...

July 2016

July 26, 2016

History as Seeing What You Want To

As evangelical historians discuss the merits of regular historians' opposition to Donald Trump, another religious...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Evangelicalism’s Pietist Roots

Chris Gehrz is correct to offer the badge "pietism" as an alternative to evangelicalism, which...

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