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Can we advance both religious liberty and LGBTQ rights?
Over the last few years we have brought your attention to Fairness for All, a balanced piece of legislation that preserves religious freedom and defends LGBTQ rights. The bill does not appear to have made it out of committee. See […]
Evangelical roundup for March 21, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? A Southern Baptist college struggles to keep the doors open after what appears to be financial mismanagement. Texas evangelical women are deconstructing. Former Liberty University Standing for Freedom Center (Falkirk Center) fellow and Trump […]
Evangelical roundup for January 13, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Aaron Renn and R.R. Reno talk about what Renn calls the three worlds of evangelicalism: firstthings · Aaron Renn on the Three Worlds of Evangelicalism A Southern Baptist pastor offers an alternative to nationalism. […]
Biden-Cheney in 2024?
Tom Friedman floats the idea in his New York Times column. His model is Israel. Here is a taste: Could this play come to Broadway? I asked Steven Levitsky, a political scientist and co-author of “How Democracies Die,” after he presented some […]
The president of a new conservative organization of Christian colleges misrepresents those Christian schools who did not join his group
David Jesse, a journalist with the Detroit Free Press and a graduate of conservative evangelical Cornerstone University, has a long piece on Christian colleges titled “Some conservative Christian colleges see growth where other schools see declines.” Read it here. Let’s […]
Evangelical roundup for September 16, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Trump supporters were more likely than Trump skeptics to begin identifying as evangelicals by 2020. Yup: Owen Strachan loves John MacArthur: Owen’s theology of COVID is apparently filtered through college football crowds: A group […]
The Equality Act and the Claims of Justice
The Equality Act promises justice. For some religious communities, it threatens the opposite.
Biden’s Politics of Human Dignity
For Joe Biden, there is no individualism apart from solidarity
Pamela Paul’s last New York Times column
I’ve enjoyed her work these past couple of years. I hate to see her go. A taste: This is my final column for The Times. In the memo I wrote three years ago when applying for this job after 11 […]
Writing for the Public Good in a Democracy in Crisis
Walls crumble, words endure
Pivot Points: Chapter 19
What Trumps Trump?
Pivot Points: Chapter 16
Journalism or Public Relations?
An open letter to the signers of the “For Wheaton” letter
A Wheaton professor weighs in.
The Author’s Corner with Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor
Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor is Professor of History and Associate Dean for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars at the University of California, Davis. This interview is based on her new book, America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values (University […]
Pretty boy Luigi
The story of “Pretty Boy Floyd” has parallels to the recent story of Luigi Mangione.
Carter: “I come here speaking to you today about your subject with a base for my information founded on Reinhold Niebuhr and Bob Dylan.”
This morning I read Randall Balmer’s piece at Politico, “Jimmy Carter: The Last Progressive Evangelical.” Here is the part of Balmer’s article that focuses on Carter’s 1974 Law Day address at the University of Georgia: One of the venerable traditions […]
A Modest Proposal to End Insanity, Part III
Tribal thinking isn’t thinking
Election Day was 18 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Christian conservative talk show host Steve Deace supported Ron DeSantis during the GOP primary season. But Trump’s cabinet picks have satisfied all his objections. Here is his entire tweet: I backed DeSantis in the primary because Trump showed no remorse/awareness […]
14 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
An evangelical farmer and Presbyterian pastor from Butler County, Pennsylvania is voting for Kamala Harris on November 5. As a farmer, he takes environmental stewardship seriously. So does Harris. As a pastor, he believes it is important to love his […]