2020-12-17T17:37:07-05:00

Five years ago, Wheaton College -- a pillar of cautious, institutional white evangelicalism -- went full Trump. I didn't see that coming. Dr. Hawkins did. Read more

2020-12-15T18:03:44-05:00

It turns out the question is never really "Who shaves the barber?" It's "Who is my neighbor?" Read more

2020-12-14T20:01:12-05:00

Adopting secular terminology for what was then -- and still is -- a pervasively religious crusade, has caused most of us to forget, or to refuse to see, how the politics of Redemption/Jim Crow were inseparable from the white Christianity that fueled them. Read more

2020-12-11T17:02:42-05:00

"Innocent" malice, an epic two points, an Advent hymn, and the depraved indifference of Dave Ramsey. Read more

2020-12-09T17:48:20-05:00

I have learned that I probably wouldn't make it as a member of the Queen's Guard at Buckingham Palace. Read more

2020-12-07T19:42:12-05:00

We don't need to wonder "what has become of Eric Metaxas?" or wring our hands lamenting "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!" This is who he's been for years now. Read more

2020-12-03T20:20:34-05:00

White American Christianity took shape thanks to two things that had suddenly become available in every Christian home in the English colonies of the New World: Bibles and slaves. 1611 and 1619. Read more

2020-12-02T22:15:35-05:00

"This is conspiracy without any theory. It’s about validating preexisting beliefs by constantly repeating false claims that reinforce what you already believe." Read more

2020-11-25T12:24:13-05:00

"Much obliged" isn't really just another way of saying "thank you," it's a way of saying more -- of making the abstraction of "thank you" concrete by reminding us that gratitude is meaningless unless it entails obligation. Read more

2020-11-20T19:37:07-05:00

A member of the Trumpian Bethel Church has been arrested for an alleged $35 million Ponzi scheme. Something about that place seems to attract con-artists and their marks. Read more

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