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June 2016

June 23, 2016
The first of this two-part series raised questions about an understanding of religion that so...
June 21, 2016
Russell Moore's recent defense of religious freedom for Muslim Americans reassured many: Does religious liberty...
June 16, 2016
Walter McDougal explains what -- trigger warning -- the Founders understood by American greatness: When...
June 15, 2016
From 1847 to 1857 if we believe Wikipedia, the City of Orlando was known as...
June 10, 2016
The opera may be over when the fat lady sings, but for denominations it's time...
June 08, 2016
Michael Gerson joins the chorus of evangelicals who repudiate Donald Trump: Support for Trump involves...
June 02, 2016
Rodney Stark begins his chapter on the Dark Ages with an important observation: "For many...

May 2016

May 31, 2016
Rodney Stark's new book, Bearing False Witness, a volume that debunks Protestant myths (some of...
May 27, 2016
News that Andover Newton Seminary is moving to Yale Divinity School (the theological world's version...
May 24, 2016
Over at Mere Orthodoxy, Jake Meador has republished an essay that Matthew Lee Anderson wrote...
May 20, 2016
Not too long ago I called attention to the tendency of evangelical historians to criticize...
May 18, 2016
Did you ever wonder why pastors, bishops, and popes think -- despite the specialization and...
May 13, 2016
Micah Mattix in a review of Arthur Krystal's new book on the Great Books writes...
May 11, 2016
Don't let all that prejudice against Donald Trump get in the way of understanding an...
May 06, 2016
More news about Joe Paterno and his involvement in covering up Jerry Sandusky's sexual molestation...
May 04, 2016
OneWheaton has come out strongly against Wheaton College for not denouncing alumnus Dennis Hastert after...

April 2016

April 29, 2016
First comes word that Brazilians love the Confederate Flag: If you guessed Santa Barbara D’Oeste,...
April 26, 2016
Jim Wallis that is. Truth be told, I am a historian with certain religious and...
April 22, 2016
About two decades ago, Donald Dayton and George Marsden had a bit of a kerfuffle...
April 20, 2016
In a review of John Wilsey's new book, American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion, Richard Gamble...
April 14, 2016
Which came first? Evangelicalism or Republicanism? You hear a lot from evangelicals who have been...
April 12, 2016
For readers who have spent time with Edward Said's influential book, Orientalism, the thought that...
April 08, 2016
I still remember walking through a park in a southern California city and experiencing a...
April 07, 2016
Has the desire not to be Donald Trump become so pronounced that anti-Trump Christians are...

March 2016

March 31, 2016
Lydia Bean and Steven Teles are nostalgic for an evangelical constituency in which spokesmen and...
March 30, 2016
Chris Gehrz is correct to offer the badge "pietism" as an alternative to evangelicalism, which...
March 25, 2016
Those are just a few of the comparisons that observers are drawing about Donald Trump....
March 25, 2016
You don't have to sweat the commercialization of Easter. Mollie Hemingway, a Lutheran, is right...
March 18, 2016
The prominence of Roman Catholic universities in the NCAA Division 1 basketball tournament is readily...
March 16, 2016
Jason Jones and John Zmirak think liberals are incoherent at best and dangerous at worst....
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