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October 2019

October 02, 2019

If You Love Karen Swallow Prior, Can You Find a Little for Her Boss?

Jerry Falwell, Jr.'s reputation only grows larger in proportion to Donald Trump's critics' need to...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

When Extremism Goes Mainstream

Josh Tait (@joshua_a_tait), who studies the history of American conservatism in a Ph.D. program, mentioned...

July 2019

July 09, 2019

The Main Thing about Evangelicalism

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

April 2019

April 24, 2019

Fundamentalism is a Physical Condition (and so not a choice?)

There's hope for fundamentalists to gain acceptance in the wider society. It turns out fundamentalism...

April 03, 2019

Calvinists: The Worst of White People

Within a few days of each other, two authors decided to attribute to Reformed Protestants...

July 2018

July 23, 2018

What if Politics Explains the Eighty-One Percent Better than Faith?

What if the evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump are something other than simply being...

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 13, 2018

When It’s Safe To Go Negative

The old adage has it that if you can't say something nice, don't say anything...

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...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Everyone’s an Evangelical

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

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...

January 2018

January 26, 2018

Life is Complicated but Evangelicals are Simple?

People act for a variety of reasons. That includes evangelicals when they vote.

October 2017

October 19, 2017

What Fundamentalists Got Right

Funny how fundamentalists were worried precisely about a vacuous, moralistic faith a century ago. But...

August 2017

August 04, 2017

How Skeptics View Christianity

J. Gresham Machen was by most accounts a fundamentalist. In 1923 he wrote, Christianity and...

July 2017

July 20, 2017

Follow the Bouncing Evangelical Ball

Readers may be hard pressed to figure out what some have recently written about evangelical...

June 2017

June 24, 2017

If Worldview Goes, So Does WWJD?

Trying to make politics conform to gospel ends is to miss the ginormous gap between...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Advice for Russell Moore — Don’t Take Any from Sarah Posner

In the ongoing effort by journalists to discredit President Trump (I actually think he has...

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),...

September 2016

September 21, 2016

Does This Mean Black Lives Matter is Fundamentalist?

Benjamin Corey thinks fundamentalism is making a come back: American culture is currently experiencing what...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Growing Up Fundamentalist Was Not All Bad

Over at Mere Orthodoxy, Jake Meador has republished an essay that Matthew Lee Anderson wrote...

January 2016

January 15, 2016

If You “Do” Advent, Are You an Evangelical?

Low church baby-boomers like myself grew up only knowing about the birth and death parts...

August 2015

August 11, 2015

A Century Ago Protestants Were Just as Pessimistic

I recently blogged for Eerdmans about the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage. I found...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

Evangelicalism Outside the Gate

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

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