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...
Apostles Creed
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...