On June 11, 2012 I appeared on Jerry Newcombe’s radio program when it aired on a local Fort Lauderdale station. David Barton was scheduled to follow me on the show that evening, but at the last minute he backed out. I...
Chrisitan America
In the Mail Today
My article on Christian America in the January issue of the Organization of American Historians Magazine of History issue on the “History Wars.” If you are an OAH member you can read it online here....
Mark Noll: Jesus and Jefferson
Over at The New Republic, Mark Noll reviews Daniel K. Williams’s God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (see our review here) and Darren Dochuck’s From Bible Belt to Sunbelt:Plain Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of...
Mike Huckabee is in the History Cartoon Business
Now that Mike Huckabee is not running for president in 2012, he can devote a good chunk of his time to creating history cartoons for kids. Huckabee had launched a company called “Learn our History. Learn our History promotes a...
Sunday School at Slate Hill Mennonite
I spent the last three Sundays teaching Sunday School at Slate Hill Mennonite Church, a local congregation in the area where I live. I was invited by my friend and colleague David Weaver-Zercher (check out his new book, The Amish...
Christian America Debate: A Third Way
Over at Huffpost Religion, Gabe Lyons writes that many young evangelicals are taking a “third way” when it comes to the idea that the United States is a Christian nation. Here is a taste: Rather than view America’s founding as […]
Glenn Beck’s Black Robe Brigade and the Plight of the Local Pastor
During Glenn Beck’s August 28 rally at the Lincoln Memorial he introduced a group of 240 pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams that he calls the “Black Robe Brigade.” (Despite the promotion of this group as ecumenical, I think most of...
America: God’s BFF
Karen Spears Zacharias claims that “God does not love America.” I think she is right, although I probably would not have put in those terms. Here is a taste of her blog post: God does not love America. If that...
Was Early America a Christian America?
So asks Claude S. Fischer in a recent article at Immanent Frame. The piece stems from Fischer’s book, Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character. Fischer concludes: The furious debate in some quarters over whether America...