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March 2020

March 11, 2020

A Pro-Life Social Imaginary – What To Do with New York City?

Karen Swallow Prior makes the useful point that defending unborn children is bigger than electoral...

February 2020

February 12, 2020

Courage in the Age of Trump

Peter Wehner continues his opposition to the president by praising Mitt Romney's vote to convict...

January 2020

January 07, 2020

What Evangelical Elites Could Learn from the World of Real Elitism

Imagine the editor of a major magazine running a column that aims multiple layers of...

September 2019

September 06, 2019

Trump is the POTUS that HBO Subscribers Deserve

I am still having trouble wrapping my mind around the very high moral standards that...

July 2019

July 31, 2019

Make Baltimore Great Again

Actually, the city that has contributed more to national culture than many natives realize --...

March 2019

March 11, 2019

Moral Equivocation with Trump and Lincoln

Michael Sean Winters comes out hard against the contested comments of Ilhan Omar about Israel...

January 2019

January 25, 2019

The Worse it Gets, the More Attractive?

I would have thought that the recent scandals among Rome's bishops would diminish some of...

July 2018

July 12, 2018

If Error Had No Rights, Donald Trump Wouldn’t Be President

On this morning's walk when I usually converse with the missus, her bad back forced...

June 2018

June 19, 2018

If Trump Can Do This for Foreign Policy, Imagine National Identity

Damon Linker welcomes President Trump's refusal to portray American greatness in moral superiority: Americans love...

May 2018

May 10, 2018

Damned If You Scold, Damned If You Don’t

John Fea reminds (as is his wont) of the hypocrisy of evangelical Trump supporters, this...

February 2018

February 21, 2018

If Evangelicals Voted for Hillary They Would Still be Hypocritical

The daily barrage of outrage over evangelical support for Trump continues. Last week at Time...

January 2018

January 23, 2018

Trump is Perfect for Evangelical Political Analysis

Why is it that the critics of evangelicals are as moralistic as Trumpian evangelicals try...

January 11, 2018

American Exceptionalism as Obama Nostalgia

Only a little over three years ago, David Bromwich, who teaches literature at Yale, complained...

November 2017

November 10, 2017

Wait, Now We Want Religion in the Pulpit?

I continue to be amazed by the positions to which anti-Trumpism leads. Now it seems...

October 2017

October 20, 2017

With Obama Christmas was Merry?

Jamie Smith has a mildly clever take on President Trump's comments about Christmas greetings. To...

October 13, 2017

When You Fault Evangelicals for Being Unreasonable, Maybe You Make Sure to Use Reason

A conservative columnist at the Washington Post claims that evangelicals are proving their harshest critics...

October 06, 2017

The Greatest Show on Earth

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

September 2017

September 21, 2017

Evangelicalism B.T. (Before Trump)

The year 2016 changed nothing.

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Will Liberal Protestants Squander their Moral Authority by Opposing Trump?

If you can believe it, the columns that underline evangelical hypocrisy for supporting the POTUS...

August 24, 2017

Help Wanted: Christian Agnostics

Christians, from pastors and theologians to parents and children, don't have any special insight into...

August 15, 2017

Look How Tim Keller and Donald Trump Agree

Are Americans more prone to believe that Keller or Trump is sincere? And are Christians...

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...

July 11, 2017

First the South Was Toxic, Now the West

Staying on the right side of history is tricky in these fast changing times. Back...

June 2017

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 14, 2017

Today’s College Students Can’t Handle the Stones

One of my stations at Pandora is The Moody Blues, one of the bands that...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Evangelicals Showed How Tolerant They Are by Voting for Donald Trump

Anyway, why can't you look at the results of the 2016 election and read it...

May 24, 2017

A Threat to Democracy

Is it more likely to come from the evangelicals who voted for Trump or from...

May 12, 2017

Stephen Colbert is no Johnny Carson

And Lena Dunham's Girls is no Leave it to Beaver. So why doesn't Colbert see...

May 12, 2017

If the Church Needs to Include Caitlyn Jenner, What about Donald Trump?

Rod Dreher writes about his appearance on the On Point NPR show and needing to...

May 04, 2017

Evangelicals Used to Hear They Scolded Too Much, Now Not Enough?

As if the repeated castigation of white evangelicals for voting Republican in the last POTUS...

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