What is happening in Evangelical land? Will Wheaton College remove J. Oliver’s Buswell’s name from its library? An evangelical on why evangelicals need to care more about inequality. The Anxious Bench blog gets a new editor Tim Keller is a […]
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Evangelical roundup for June 23, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? More coverage of the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference. Fame and evangelicalism Newsweek goes after Christians who adopt. Pro-life in a post-Roe world: On Southern Baptists as “political whores.” An Evangelical […]
Evangelical roundup for June 20, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Will evangelicals endorse Trump in 2024? Charles Marsh on growing up evangelical. EGOD? The Gospel Coalition on Juneteenth. Beth and Russell: Will the Southern Baptist Convention be “smaller and purer or bigger and more […]
Evangelical roundup for June 16, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Note: This roundup does not include links to what happened at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Anaheim this week. You can find our coverage on this event here and here. We also […]
Evangelical roundup for June 9, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Some Southern Baptists are trying to discredit the investigators hired to conduct the denomination’s sexual abuse study. Do conservative evangelicals have better sex lives? Shane Claiborne celebrates Pentecost: “Christians leading communities plagued by cartels […]
What we have said about guns and gun control over the years
Despite what I have heard from a few folks in the last day or two, I think we’ve been pretty consistent over the years: May 28, 2021: When it comes to the Second Amendment, Matt Gaetz has no clue March […]
Evangelical roundup for May 26, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? For some early responses to the Southern Baptist Convention sexual abuse report click here and here. Tim Alberta talks with Russell Moore about politics in the church. A Gospel Coalition author on “rights”: 10,000 […]
On Doug Mastriano’s 2001 paper “The Civilian Putsch of 2018”
Here is Greg Jaffee of The Washington Post with some context: Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master’s thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would begin […]
Scooby Doo and the Black Robe Regiments
Effective political engagement requires real historical understanding
When it comes to abortion, conservative evangelicals act. When it comes to gun control, some call for revival but most say nothing.
In 2019, I wrote a piece at The Washington Post about the way that conservative evangelicals, mostly white conservative evangelicals, offer “thoughts and prayers” to the families of the victims of gun violence yet oppose gun control legislation. Here is […]
Evangelical roundup for April 14, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Despite Donald Trump’s endorsement of David Perdue in the Georgia gubernatorial race, evangelicals are still backing incumbent Brian Kemp. Eric Metaxas interviews Rudy Giuliani. The conspiracy theories abound! Jenna Ellis and Eric Metaxas on […]
Evangelical roundup for April 4, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Randall Balmer on the Mark Galli sexual harassment charges. Evangelical worship leader Sean Feucht does not want you to be fooled: Jim Wallis on mixing religion and politics. Two important evangelical voices meet: Franklin […]
Speaking Faithfully to the Faithful: The Conference on Faith and History
Can scholars keep partisan activism from derailing their primary task: truth-telling?
Tilting at Windmills
There are political forces with deep pockets trying to shape how we learn American history. What are academic historians to do?
Evangelical roundup for January 27, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? How the backlash to the Christian Right is reshaping evangelicalism. Timothy Keller on the “decline of evangelicalism“: Georgia gubernatorial candidates are fighting for the evangelical vote. Evangelicals still love Trump (and Pence): Are evangelicals […]
Evangelical roundup for January 20, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? There is a long history of white evangelicals taking shots at Martin Luther King Jr.’s “liberal theology.” Tim LaHaye did it in 1968 and on Monday Al Mohler did it, albeit in a softer […]
Nudity in the Bible?
There were a lot of pictures of naked people in 19th-century Bibles. Here is historian Joseph Slaughter at The Panorama: Every now and then, work in the archives produces moments that jar us out of our misplaced assumptions. The biggest […]
The latest Christian Right critique of the 1619 Project is full of problems. Let’s break it down.
Jerry Newcombe is a writer and local Florida radio host who comes out of the D. James Kennedy (Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church of Ft. Lauderdale) wing of conservative evangelicals. He is also the president of a Christian nationalist historical organization […]
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. […]
Evangelical roundup for December 30, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals are effectively running prison units in Argentina. Interesting: Evangelicals in Oklahoma are divided over vaccines. Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center director Ryan Helfenbein: Christian dominionists are running for spots on school boards. […]