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March 2019

March 04, 2019
I teach at an institution where we try to give instruction in good writing across...
March 01, 2019
Chris Gehrz makes a case for historians producing podcasts as a way of reaching a...

February 2019

February 22, 2019
Today is the anniversary of George Washington's birthday, a holiday that became collapsed with Lincoln's...
February 15, 2019
Alan Cross has to assert several times that in arguing for Christian involvement in politics,...
February 12, 2019
We might not have apotheosized the POTUS. We might have regarded them as real life...
February 06, 2019
One of the best books never read was Garry Wills' Politics and Catholic Freedom. This...

January 2019

January 30, 2019
Some evangelical (ambivalently so) historians, like David Swartz, admire politicians like Jimmy Carter and Mark...
January 29, 2019
A stray book review in need of a home landed in my in-box. Evangelicals in...
January 25, 2019
I would have thought that the recent scandals among Rome's bishops would diminish some of...
January 21, 2019
Over the weekend one of the prominent New York neo-conservative intellectuals, the sociologist, Nathan Glazer...
January 16, 2019
I, just like John Fea, thought the Bruce Springsteen Broadway show was terrific, and I...
January 11, 2019
How's that for click-bait? But if you thought today's universities was filled either with secularist...
January 10, 2019
By now the debate about evangelicalism has petered out. (For background, see these posts.) But...
January 07, 2019
Why is it that when many Christians talk about the systemic nature of social injustice,...
January 04, 2019
Emma Green has a piece on a shift among evangelical philanthropists for which many should...

December 2018

December 28, 2018
Not too long ago, a number of evangelical historians raised questions about how to reach...
December 19, 2018
In part one I generally took Tommie Kidd's side on the question of who gets...
December 18, 2018
John Fea has the details of an exchange on Twitter between Tommie Kidd and Jonathan...
December 14, 2018
After reading Rusty Reno's relatively recent laments about sanctity among Roman Catholic clergy (and the...
December 13, 2018
Historians are an insecure lot and all the more so with recent developments. First came...
December 10, 2018
Roman Catholics recently (Dec. 5 8) celebrated or observed (or marked) The Feast of the...
December 07, 2018
Some dispute that Martin Luther ever said that he would rather be ruled by a...
December 06, 2018
Take for instance the recent review essay in the New York Times of books on...
December 03, 2018
I keep seeing posts or tweets that suggest or even insist that Christianity is 100%...

November 2018

November 29, 2018
A good friend and great colleague in the study of U.S. history, Leo Ribuffo, has...
November 28, 2018
Matthew Schmitz must be a terrific poker player. At a time when the reasons for...
November 26, 2018
Roger Olson observes that the current critics of evangelicalism, the so-called voices from the margins,...
November 21, 2018
When will John Fea turn from David Barton to Michael Gerson? The column about the...
November 19, 2018
On the one hand, the further revelations of cases of sexual abuse and episcopal cover-up...
November 16, 2018
Lots of Christians talk about social justice but what are they doing besides giving speeches,...
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