Some of you on Twitter may know Darryl Hart as the historian who regularly trolls this blog under the handle “Old Life.” In a piece published yesterday at The Wall Street Journal, Hart wonders if evangelical historians are trying to...
Darryl Hart reviews Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump alongside Peter Wehner’s The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump. I must have missed this review when it appeared in the Winter 2019 edition of the...
Harold John Ockenga was the pastor of Boston’s Park Street Church from 1936 to 1969. He was one of the early leaders of the neo-evangelical movement in the 1940s and 1950s. We normally associated the rise of neo-evangelicalism with people...
For most evangelical Christians, the message of the Gospel transcends the identity categories we place on human beings. All men and women are sinners in need of redemption. Citizenship in the Kingdom of God, made possible by Jesus’s death and...
In case you haven’t heard, Baylor University historian Thomas Kidd and journalist Jonathan Merritt had a debate. Read all about it here. And now Darryl Hart has commented on it. As is usually the case, Darryl manages to throw everyone...
This is the second time this year that Darryl Hart has agreed with something I wrote. :-)(The first time was here). Here is a taste of his recent post at Old Life: Glad to see John Fea stand up for evangelism (in...
Over the last couple of years I have been a regular target of Darryl Hart, professor of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan. Read all his posts about my work here. So needless to say, I was surprised to see...
Darryl Hart has criticized my recent comments about the American Bible Society. If you have not read my recent comments you can get up to speed here. First, let me say that I don’t “object” to the ABS statement. As...
Great question. As Darryl Hart know better than most, “evangelicalism” did not really become a big thing in post-war America until it graced the cover of Newsweek in 1976. Granted, evangelicalism had been around for a long time, but its re-emergence...
Over at his blog Old Life: Reformed Faith and Practice, Hillsdale College historian Darryl Hart is once again criticizing me. Several folks who read this blog and Hart’s blog asked me if I would respond to his most recent post. I...
Darryl Hart asks a version of this question at his Patheos blog “Putting the PROTEST in Protestant.” (How many blogs does this guy have? Is this the same D.G. Hart who once told me in a hand-written letter that he refused to use e-mail?)....
David Brooks’s recent column defending Western Civilization is bound to get the descendants of the New Left and the defenders of multiculturalism very angry. But I think he ends the column with a very fair point: These days, the whole idea...
We need a new name for Christianity in the United States. The contributors to this podcast at Christianity Today are still lamenting the turnout of white evangelicals for Donald Trump and so one of them called for more attention to...
Darryl Hart of Hillsdale College has been on my case ever since I announced that I signed Historians Against Trump. First, let me say that I have great respect for Darryl as a scholar and a historian and I have...
Check out Darryl G. Hart’s review of The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society in today’s Wall Street Journal! Here is a taste: For the past 50 years or so, the Bible—the collection of sacred Jewish and Christian texts—has taken...
Some of you may remember my post on Saturday in which I presented the various “evangelical” voting options for the presidential election in November. Over at Old Life blog, Darryl Hart, a historian at Hillsdale College, apparently took umbrage with...
It all started in 1990 with a conference at Duke on secularization and the academy. (At the time I was a first year divinity school student. The internet did not exist yet and I had no idea that this conference...
Ben Sasse: Nebraska’s new senator Paul Putz, a Ph.D student in history at Baylor University, has written a fascinating post at the blog of the American Society of Church History on the religious beliefs of Nebraska’s new senator, Ben Sasse....
In case you have not heard, the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals (ISAE) at Wheaton College (IL) will be shutting down operations at the end of the year. Last week Wheaton held a symposium to celebrate the work...
Darryl Hart Those of you who read the The Way of Improvement Leads Home are familiar with the thirteen question quiz on evangelicalism that I posted yesterday. I have been surprised with how much attention this quiz is receiving, mostly […]
