The failed "personal salvation will transform society" argument has been largely abandoned. Read more
The failed "personal salvation will transform society" argument has been largely abandoned. Read more
The blogosphere of a decade ago was a very different place, but social media is still made of people. Read more
Every evangelist and church-planter dreams of the kind of revival William Knibb led, but none of them wants to do the preparation. Read more
Our devotion to the Cold War was a more-respectable-seeming proxy for our opposition to the Civil Rights Movement. Read more
The 20-year-old links in this post are all defunct now, but I think it otherwise aged well. Read more
It's a wordless reaction shot that lasts two, maybe three seconds. And it's devastating. Read more
“It’s Christmas,” we say, and the appeal has a strange power to it, as though we’ve just played a trump card that the other person is obliged to recognize. Read more
The mass hysteria of the New York Panic of 1741 is evidence that slave-keepers knew and understood the evil of slavery. Read more
The kids in this church youth group are in their 30s by now. Hope they're doing OK. Read more
It’s a beloved Christmas carol, except for not really being a carol, or really being beloved, or having anything to do with Christmas. Read more
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