In yesterday’s Evangelical roundup I posted and commented on evangelical conspiracy theorist Eric Metaxas’s interview with fellow evangelical conspiracy theorist and Pennsylvania state senator Doug Mastriano. Here is the interview: At the 1:25 mark, Eric Metaxas says: There was just...
It was good to get back to conferences this weekend. I forgot how much there is to learn through attending conferences and how much face-to-face engagement is so much more effective at stimulating thinking than ZOOM events. On Thursday I...
On Friday, Tim Keller, founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, wrote a post about critical race theory: Critical race theory is not the Gospel, but it can certainly help Christians understand our current moment. It has been useful...
Earlier today I posted on the politicization of the Judeo-Christian belief that human beings are created in the image of God. In this post, I want to cover how a belief in the imago Dei informs how I do history....
Whether you agree or disagree with him, Wilfred McClay is always thoughtful. If I see his byline at First Things or another conservative outlet, I will always read the article. As one of America’s best conservative historians (not a historian...
Here is a taste of my recent piece at Sojourners: A nurse can learn how to insert an IV tube in a patient’s arm, but how will he develop the fortitude to enter a room filled with people suffering from infectious...
As many of you know, this semester I am teaching three sections of a Messiah College course called Created and Called for Community (CCC). This is a required course for first-year Messiah students. They take it in the second semester...
After I wrote my recent post on Chris Gehrz’s treatment of evangelical populism, I pulled Mark Noll’s Scandal of the Evangelical Mind off the shelf. Some critics of Mark Galli’s Christianity Today editoral have suggested that evangelicalism has always been a...
I check the First Things website every day and often link to pieces I find interesting. But I stopped reading First Things regularly after Richard John Neahaus passed away. (I used to subscribe and read each issue cover-to-cover). On Friday, ...
Back in March 2011, I had a great visit to the Anselm House (at the time it was called the MacLaurin Institute) at the University of Minnesota. I gave a lecture on the U of M campus, met with campus...
Here is a taste from Dreher’s blog: I initially thought How To Think would be a basic primer of informal logic. It’s not that at all, but something more interesting. What’s the book about, and why did you write it? Last year,...
Baylor University humanities professor Alan Jacobs‘s latest book is How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds. Over at Religion News Service, Jacobs talks with journalist Jonathan Merritt about the book and the state of Christian thinking. Here...
As many of you know by now, Alan Jacobs has written an excellent essay on Christian intellectuals in the current tissue of Harper’s Magazine. It is titled “The Watchmen: What Became of the Christian Intellectuals.” I hope to do some posts...
I really like Greg Garrett’s thoughts on how Christians might think about the Affordable Care Act. I applaud his efforts to reflect Christianly (and not just politically) on the meaning of the act. Here is a taste: How might Christians […]
