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October 2021

October 28, 2021

The Optics and the Reality of Evangelical Elites

Carl Trueman's piece about the failure of evangelical elites likely misconstrued the work of George...

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...

September 01, 2020

The Meaning of the Jerry Falwell, Jr. Scandal

Some observers of evangelicalism are obsessed with Falwell, in part seemingly because he is another...

August 2020

August 06, 2020

What About Nostalgia for a View of the Past?

Nostalgia has been on the ropes lately. The reason is apparently a new reckoning with...

April 2020

April 13, 2020

Pandemic Politics Before COVID-19

"Will I be infected by the virus?" is a question that guides most evangelical arguments...

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...

December 2019

December 19, 2019

Boris Johnson and the Hypocrisy of British Evangelicals (not really)

With all the scorn directed at U.S. evangelicals over their vote and support for Donald...

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...

September 2019

September 11, 2019

Why Are “Liberals” So Insecure that They Need the Times’ Green Light to Dump on Conservatives?

The New York Times' poor driving skills have already caught my attention and are now...

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...

May 2019

May 03, 2019

Presbyterian Theology and Judaism Part One

Terry Mattingly asks journalists to keep digging deeper into the "Calvinist" theology that may have...

April 2019

April 22, 2019

The Good (Tiger), the Bad (Kate), and the Ugly (Pence)

H. L. Mencken defined Puritanism as the "haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy."...

April 05, 2019

The Gospel Coalition’s Fine Line of Moderation

The gospel allies ran a successful conference, according to some observers: 1. The Gospel Coalition...

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 16, 2019

Skin in the Scholarly Game

I, just like John Fea, thought the Bruce Springsteen Broadway show was terrific, and I...

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...

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...

December 18, 2018

Kidd vs. Merritt and Why Journalists Don’t Teach Foreign Policy

John Fea has the details of an exchange on Twitter between Tommie Kidd and Jonathan...

November 2018

November 21, 2018

Michael Gerson’s Hypocrisy

When will John Fea turn from David Barton to Michael Gerson? The column about the...

November 08, 2018

Does Place Matter More than Faith?

At the beginning of this week, John Fea posted several key races in state and...

October 2018

October 11, 2018

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

John Fea thinks Greg Laurie, the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship who spoke at...

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...

June 08, 2018

Is that an Evangelical Telling Southern Baptists They Are Pushy?

I don't mean to pick on John Fea but he is on a roll of...

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...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Never Trump Needs American Greatness

Michael Gerson's piece in the Atlantic on President Trump's appeal to evangelicals is revealing of...

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...

November 2017

November 17, 2017

Hypocrites All

It's a fallen world out there. Someone has to govern.

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...

June 2017

June 09, 2017

Not Everyone Loves Niebuhr

I for one think Christians should be wary of cheering for fellow Christians in public...

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