Check out Jonathan Merritt’s Religion News Service piece on Albert Mohler‘s recent “flip-flop” to Donald Trump. (We broke this story early. See our posts here and here and here.). Some of the scholars and SBC-insiders he quotes are quite revealing....
Matt Lakemacher of Woodland Middle School in Gurnee, IL attended a session sponsored by the Conference on Faith and History at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. You can read all his posts here. Enjoy! –JF Right out of the gate...
(This is the third and final post in a series on the word “evangelical” in the eighteenth-century and today. Read the first post here and the second post here). So we’re agreed that the first question to every academic panel...
Here is a taste of historian John Turner‘s post at The Anxious Bench: To what extent should non-academics defer to academic historians on matters of history? John Fea faulted Merritt for being snarky and dismissive (“maybe you should think some...
(This is the first post in a series on the word “evangelical” in the eighteenth-century and today). If the Jonathan Merritt dust-up had a positive result, it was that it got historians thinking again about the meaning of the word...
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...
On Thursday night a very interesting, revealing, and somewhat disturbing Twitter exchange took place between religion writer Jonathan Merritt and historian Thomas Kidd. Here is what happened: It began when someone retweeted Kidd’s Gospel Coalition post on eighteenth-century African-American poet...
Kirsten Powers of CNN and journalist Jonathan Merritt have started a new podcast titled The Faith Angle. This looks like it will be a good podcast. The first episode is titled “Trumpevangelicals and the Divided States of America.” The guest...
