About Tom Whittaker

Tom Whittaker teaches history at LeTourneau University in East Texas. Although very much a historian, he is also deeply interested in exploring the world of contemporary Christian life, practice, politics, and theology in the United States and around the world, especially in the complicated, conflicted network of churches and institutions that go by the name "evangelical." He is trained as an American religious historian, with a PhD in the Study of Religion from Harvard University, an MA from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and a BA from the University of Chicago.

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Make Harvard Religious Again

Commentators often bemoan the attention that’s paid to Harvard in our cultural... read more

Branding and the Death of the Baptist University

My family was recently near the campus of UT Dallas and decided... read more

Perry Glanzer's Christian College Guide: In Need of...

Perry Glanzer is one of the foremost scholars of Christian higher education,... read more

Is Church Planting Always a Good Thing?

Church planting has long been in the evangelical DNA. In early America,... read more

How the Pilgrims Secularized Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving may well be your favorite holiday. For a lot of Americans,... read more

LGBT Inclusion and Evangelical Identity: A Transatlantic Comparison

Same-Sex Blessings in the Church of England Unlike many other Anglican churches... read more

Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Sort of an Evangelical...

I’m teaching a class on Catholicism this semester, and, in an effort... read more

Postsecular East Texas: Two Years Behind the Pine...

I want to welcome you to my new column, The Postsecular West.... read more

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