What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals who lead with a moral code need more Jesus. More than 75% of Republican evangelicals want the United States declared as a Christian nation. D.G. Hart on Ron Sider’s legacy. Is worship at […]
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Seeing New Things, Asking New Questions
What I learned about the evangelical embrace of Trump from watching old news clips
Evangelical roundup for September 15, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Young evangelicals saving the planet. And here. Caribbean evangelicals remember Queen Elizabeth. UK evangelicals remember Queen Elizabeth. A Christian college committed to diversity. Swiss evangelicals urge “tolerance and respect” in abortion debates. Rich Mullins: […]
Evangelical roundup for September 12, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Daniel Williams on why progressive Christians should join the pro-life cause. Is evangelical male-female friendship possible? Jim Wallis defends Biden’s Philadelphia speech. Lisa Sharon Harper on the death of Queen Elizabeth: It looks like […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Adam Smith reconsidered Seventeenth-century Dutch Calvinist missionaries in Southeast Asia Icebreakers on the first day of class Who is Jay Caspian Kang? Comparing the opposition to slavery and the opposition […]
Biden Defends Democracy
The president’s speech at Independence Hall was appropriate and necessary
GOP success in November rests on the votes of women
Republican women voters are skeptical about the direction their party is moving and there is a good chance they will voice their skepticism in the November 2022 Senate races. Here is Natalie Allison at Politico: Republicans this election cycle thought […]
REVIEW: One Cheer for Purdy
Jedidiah Purdy’s call for more self-governance raises a question: How far can better policy take us?
“America’s only Christian conservative wireless provider”
Over at NBC News, Mike Hixenbaugh introduces us to Patriot Mobile, a 7 Mountain Dominionist business that is trying to take over Texas school boards. I was happy to help him with the piece. A taste: DALLAS — A little […]
It’s Ron DeSantis vs. Charlie Crist in Florida
I will be keeping an eye on this race. Here is NPR: Democrat and longtime politician Charlie Crist has won the primary for governor in Florida and will face Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in November, according to a race call […]
The Liberal Agenda in Higher Education
In which a young man discovers that the brain was not made to live in a silo
My 2024 Presidential Election Predictions
Do not hold me to anything written below!
Post-Dobbs America: Federalism Revived, Transformed
How useful are historical analogies in our new political era?
Evangelical roundup for August 11, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Samuel Escobar remembers Ron Sider. Evangelicals will discuss evangelicals after Roe v. Wade. This evangelical, who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, does not want Donald Trump to run in 2024. It […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Kevin Carey reviews Will Bunch, After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics The roots of “Great Replacement” theory Things left in […]
Albert Mohler’s “Christian world view” was on full display in his ugly piece on the legacy of Ronald Sider
Albert Mohler, the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, likes to talk about how he discerns current events through his “Christian world view.” Well, Mohler’s “Christian world view” was on full display yesterday in his reflection on […]
Noonan: Pro-lifers failed to prepare for a post-Roe world
The dog caught the bus. Now what? The leaders of the prolife movement–especially the conservative evangelical wing of the movement–spent so much time, energy, and money chasing the Roe v. Wade bus that it failed to think deeply about what […]
Evangelical roundup for August 4, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? White Southern evangelicals are leaving churches. Most complaints about “evangelical elites“ How “weak” is evangelical theology? Southern Baptists appoint a pastor to lead the fight against sexual abuse: Beth Moore orders her tombstone: The […]
The Joe Biden Good-Time Action Adventure Hour!
Politicians ignoring ordinary citizens? Write a play instead!Â
Sam Alito get on his high horse in Rome
I wish Sam Alito would just keep his mouth shut and do his job. Every time he speaks publicly he proves that the Supreme Court is just another political institution. This, it seems, was what John Roberts was worried about […]