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October 2019

October 29, 2019

White evangelicals love Kanye’s Carman album

Embracing white evangelical culture wars and white evangelical politics, Kanye West records ... well, basically...

September 2019

September 30, 2019

The heirs of the abstractions

Anthea Butler's NBC News op-ed -- "White evangelicals love Trump and aren't confused about why....

September 25, 2019

Postcards from the class & culture wars (9.25.19)

"Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the...

September 23, 2019

Smart people saying smart things (9.23.19)

You'd be smart to listen to Kate Marvel, Zak Cheney-Rice, Damon Young, Michael Twitty, and...

September 04, 2019

‘I’m a locksmith. And I’m a locksmith’

"They get mad. They get so mad." We can't avoid their defensive anger, so let's...

June 2019

June 26, 2019

Overexposed, commercialized

The new book on evangelical Christianity by historians Mark Noll, George Marsden, and David Bebbington...

June 18, 2019

The gas is gone and now we’re fumin’

Chris Ladd revisits the Southern Strategy and the bottom-up role of white pastors in turning...

May 2019

May 16, 2019

‘The Lady Vanishes’: Growing up anti-abortion

We knew this was so because Reagan freed the hostages and because we had seen...

April 2019

April 10, 2019

A First Amendment for me, but not for thee

Here's the story of a First Amendment dispute involving free speech that illuminates parallel First...

March 2019

March 26, 2019

I’m tired, but I’m working yeah

If you're claiming "I'm not a racist, I'm just upset that black schools are taking...

March 06, 2019

Take it, it’s yours

Check out the late Luke Perry in "Jeremiah" and you'll learn something about the End...

February 2019

February 13, 2019

Never been partial to shackles or chains

We tend to be more willing to forgive people like Edwards and Whitefield for being...

February 10, 2019

If ‘we’ didn’t know, now ‘we’ know

It's not that "we" didn't know any better before this new era of awareness. It's...

February 08, 2019

‘It was a kind of secret which we all knew and were too clever to tell’

Over at the Anxious Bench, Philip Jenkins* continues his thoughtful series on slavery, history, and...

February 06, 2019

An alternate history and an alternate future

Here my imagination fails me. I have never seen such a thing. The real world...

February 04, 2019

Bad Reputation: The right subject, the wrong question

Who gives a withered fig about reputation? Whitefield’s reputation doesn’t matter. Our “stance” regarding Whitefield’s...

January 2019

January 24, 2019

Postcards from the class & culture wars (1.24.19)

"He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require...

January 14, 2019

‘Hear him howling around your kitchen door’

"Watergate does not bother me" is a defiantly deplorable celebration of Nixon's politics of white...

January 10, 2019

It’s too soon to tell

Two recent stories from the evangelical world might seem like positive, hopeful first steps. But...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

All the poets were dying of a silence disease

• It's New Year's Eve, so I hereby give you permission to give yourself permission...

December 26, 2018

Postcards from the class & culture wars (12.26.18)

"Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does...

December 24, 2018

William Knibb was an evangelist

I thought about writing a click-bait parody headline for this post, something like "Soul-winning Secrets...

December 20, 2018

Who’s an ‘evangelical’? Depends on who’s asking. And why. (And when.)

As usual, the disagreement wasn't actually about the definition of the term evangelical, or about...

November 2018

November 26, 2018

Without him you’re toast

In the Netherlands, the police are not allowed to enter a church during worship services...

November 24, 2018

‘No matter what the laws might be, you would honor yourself for doing it’

ICE agents emulate the tactics of slave-catchers from the 1850s, leading some North Carolina clergy...

November 05, 2018

Postcards from the class & culture wars (11.5.18)

"Is not this the worship that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to...

October 2018

October 26, 2018

Empathy and disgust are partners (‘I never asked you to have faith in me, Goody Watson’)

When you "judge" others, you should also judge yourself by the same standards. You might...

October 15, 2018

Postcards from the class & culture wars (10.15.18)

"Come now, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming to...

October 08, 2018

Postcards from the class & culture wars (10.8.18)

"Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy...

September 2018

September 20, 2018

Postcards from the class & culture wars (9.20.18)

"Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes;...