On July 1, 2023 Dondi E. Costin took the helm of Liberty University. We will see if he brings any changes to Liberty’s culture war stance, but if this Steve Bannon-Dave Brat conversation is any indication I am not optimistic...
Apostles Creed
Teaching this Semester
This semester, for the first time in my eighteen-year career at Messiah College, I will not be teaching any history courses. Instead, I will be teaching three sections of a required first-year seminar titled “Created and Called for Community.” This...
More On Trump and the Apostles Creed
Several evangelicals, of various political persuasions, have weighed in. On the court evangelical side: Another example of the media using the funeral of a great president to make fun of @realDonaldTrump. Much of the media has lost it. There’s no...
In Defense of Trump on the Apostles Creed
Patrick Nugent, a self-described “liberal evangelical” in the Quaker tradition, thinks Trump did the right thing by not reciting the Apostles Creed at the George H.W. Bush funeral. Here is a taste of his piece at The Washington Post: The Apostles’...
All He Had to Do Was “Simply Look at the Program and Read”
This is your “Christian” evangelical president. pic.twitter.com/u0478FoSyR — Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) December 5, 2018 Context When the Barack, Michelle, Bill, Hillary, Jimmy, and Rosalyn started reciting it, perhaps he thought the Apostles Creed was some kind of loyalty oath for...