Race, gender, identity… and Donald Trump. Revisiting the 2016 meeting of the Conference on Faith and History – the first to be displaced by a presidential campaign rally! [Read more…]
Highlights from the 2016 Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History
October 23, 2016 by Leave a Comment
The Culture Wars and Evangelical “Evangelism”
October 12, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Christians, who are people of the Book, follow political scripts as well as biblical scripts. The Right preaches small government and identifies with the Republican Party. The Left preaches an interventionist government and identifies with the Democratic Party. There are almost exact religious analogues. The public face of the Christian Left matches the Democratic Party, [Read More…]
The Crisis of Corporate Evangelicalism (Part 5 – Born Again)
October 6, 2016 by Leave a Comment
How corporate evangelicals remade themselves in the Great Depression and after. [Read more…]
Hey White Evangelicals, Welcome to Anabaptism
September 28, 2016 by Leave a Comment
After centuries of relying on sky-high Amish birthrates for church growth, Anabaptism has exploded in just several months. The surprising converts include a lot of conservative white evangelicals who are not known for their pacifism, simple living, or belief in the separation of church and state. Nonetheless, many are suddenly preaching the limits of partisan [Read More…]
Crisis of Corporate Evangelicalism (Part 4 – The “Other” Evangelicals)
September 8, 2016 by Leave a Comment
In July 1925, America was gripped by a spectacle of the sort that reality TV would later perfect. The small hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee hosted a trivial court case that town leaders puffed into a media circus. The contest was whether evolution should be taught in public schools. At the prosecutors’ table sat the one-time [Read More…]
History, Empathy, and Race in America
August 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment
In the white paper “Measuring College Learning in History” (a surprisingly good read as far as literature on assessment in higher education goes), Lendol Calder and Tracy Steffes discuss the virtues of historical inquiry. “History offers a critical perspective on the present and satisfies a natural longing most people have to situate themselves in a [Read More…]
The Crisis of Corporate Evangelicalism (Part 3 – where did it come from?)
August 11, 2016 by Leave a Comment
[You can also read previous posts in the series] Imagine a world where families operate like corporations. Parents are management, but efficiency and profitably determine all aspects of family life. Children are both assets and employees; resources are allocated according to potential. And if things don’t work out with a troublesome teen or toddler? Well, you can [Read More…]
How Activists Claimed Primary Season (for awhile)
August 3, 2016 by Leave a Comment
During the Democratic National Convention, supporters of Bernie Sanders denounced the superdelegate system as rigged. For their part, some Republican Party elites sought to derail Donald Trump’s nomination by changing convention rules to release already-pledged superdelegates to vote against Trump. In the face of seemingly universal denunciations of the superdelegate system, it’s worth considering its [Read More…]
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, By Their Words
July 28, 2016 by Leave a Comment
by Katelyn Guichelaar and Kristin Du Mez The national party conventions of the past two weeks have offered us political theatrics, stolen words, and soaring rhetoric. They also provide us with a moment to reflect on the paths each candidate has taken to secure their party’s nomination. More specifically, to consider the words they have [Read More…]
Trump, Evangelicals, and the Democratic Party
July 20, 2016 by Leave a Comment
White evangelicals have become such an entrenched bloc in the Republican Party that four out of every five of them plan to vote for Trump. [Read more…]
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