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May 2020

May 15, 2020

Where Integralists (Vermeule) and Americans (Linker) Agree (with Douthat to the rescue)

(For some background on intergralism vs. liberalism, see this and the links included.) Rod Dreher...

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,...

December 2018

December 14, 2018

Roman Catholic Exceptionalism

After reading Rusty Reno's relatively recent laments about sanctity among Roman Catholic clergy (and the...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

Are Protestants who Convert Christians before Conversion?

Matthew Schmitz must be a terrific poker player. At a time when the reasons for...

November 12, 2018

Teaching the Integration of Church and State while Teaching the Separation of Church and State

John Allen, one of the best Roman Catholic journalists covering the Vatican, called it "Weird...

September 2018

September 06, 2018

Why Roman Catholicism is Special

In response to the current crisis in the Roman Catholic Church, a priest in Santa...

September 04, 2018

How Much Does Doctrine Matter?

For Damon Linker, what convinced him to become Roman Catholic was not doctrine but beauty....

May 2018

May 25, 2018

Are Some (of Paige Patterson’s) Sins More Heinous than Others?

In the land of Presbyterianism, we profess, with the Westminster Shorter Catechism, that "some sins...

January 2018

January 16, 2018

Why Are Christians Obsessed with Sex?

Some people are worried about Christian/evangelical higher education and think the current climate of gay...

January 13, 2018

Edgardo Mortara

He may not be a familiar name now, though the recent controversy over Pius IX's...

January 03, 2018

Thick Evangelicalism?

To include a large number of disparate Protestants, you need to overlook important differences —...

November 2017

November 17, 2017

Hypocrites All

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

November 14, 2017

What Calvinism Solves

Does liberalism contain the seeds of its own destruction?

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 22, 2017

Evangelicals Took Faith Too Seriously

Mark Lilla's new book, The Once and Future Liberal, is gaining some attention as one...

May 2017

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...

April 2017

April 13, 2017

Who Says You Can’t Enforce Morality?

While Rod Dreher complains about the dictatorship of moral relativism that has triumphed in the...

July 2016

July 15, 2016

Do You Need to be an Extrovert to be Evangelical?

The expiration date on the Myers Briggs personality test may have passed, but the differences...

January 2016

January 20, 2016

Why the Comparisons between Jesus and Trump Make Sense

Never have I seen a political candidate with the power to change lives as much...

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