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The National Association of Evangelicals, one of the major institutional outlets for white Protestants who...

Michael Sean Winters comes out hard against the contested comments of Ilhan Omar about Israel...

When I was in college, I studied film and took a few classes in film...

Some Christians are uncomfortable either with their world or their place in it. The rise...

I teach at an institution where we try to give instruction in good writing across...

Chris Gehrz makes a case for historians producing podcasts as a way of reaching a...

Today is the anniversary of George Washington's birthday, a holiday that became collapsed with Lincoln's...

Alan Cross has to assert several times that in arguing for Christian involvement in politics,...

We might not have apotheosized the POTUS. We might have regarded them as real life...

One of the best books never read was Garry Wills' Politics and Catholic Freedom. This...

Some evangelical (ambivalently so) historians, like David Swartz, admire politicians like Jimmy Carter and Mark...

A stray book review in need of a home landed in my in-box. Evangelicals in...

I would have thought that the recent scandals among Rome's bishops would diminish some of...

Over the weekend one of the prominent New York neo-conservative intellectuals, the sociologist, Nathan Glazer...

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

How's that for click-bait? But if you thought today's universities was filled either with secularist...

By now the debate about evangelicalism has petered out. (For background, see these posts.) But...

Why is it that when many Christians talk about the systemic nature of social injustice,...

Emma Green has a piece on a shift among evangelical philanthropists for which many should...

Not too long ago, a number of evangelical historians raised questions about how to reach...

In part one I generally took Tommie Kidd's side on the question of who gets...

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

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

Historians are an insecure lot and all the more so with recent developments. First came...

Roman Catholics recently (Dec. 5 8) celebrated or observed (or marked) The Feast of the...

Some dispute that Martin Luther ever said that he would rather be ruled by a...

Take for instance the recent review essay in the New York Times of books on...

I keep seeing posts or tweets that suggest or even insist that Christianity is 100%...

A good friend and great colleague in the study of U.S. history, Leo Ribuffo, has...

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