In a recent debate between Ohio U.S. Senate candidates Morgan Harper (D) and Josh Mandel (R), the question of the separation of church and state came up. Watch: Here is Mandel’s answer in writing: I do not believe in the...
Judeo-Christianity
What the heck is Rick Santorum talking about?
Please do not get your American history from my former U.S. Senator. Here is part of a recent lecture to the Young America’s Foundation: Let’s just get some facts straight: Some, but not all, Europeans came to North America to...
Martin Luther King Jr’s Christian nationalism
This is a piece I wrote in 2011 when I was doing a column at Patheos: When we think of the defenders of a Christian America today, the Christian Right immediately comes to mind. We think of people like Glenn...
Georgia reclaims its Judeo-Christian heritage
Today I was a guest on The Meetinghouse, a radio show hosted by Dwight A. Moody, a Southern Baptist pastor and former dean of the chapel and professor of religion at Georgetown College in Kentucky. We were talking about the...
Evangelical-Jewish Relations
Ralph Keen is writing for us this week from the annual meeting of the American Society of Church History in New York City. Keen is Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation Chair of Catholic Studies and Professor of History at the University...
Historian Kevin Schultz on the “Judeo-Christian Tradition”
Schultz is the author of Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postward America to its Protestant Promise. In his recent piece at The New Republic, he traces the American history of the phrase “Judeo-Christian.” Here is a taste: In the suddenly...
The Origins of “Judeo-Christian Values”
Last week Donald Trump told conservatives at the Values Voter Summit that he will end “attacks on Judeo-Christian values.” Over at the Pietist Schoolman, Chris Gehrz is curious about the origins of the phrase “Judeo-Christian.” (Some of you may recall...
The Origins of "Judeo-Christian"
Ted Cruz wants to restore the United States to it so-called “Judeo-Christian” roots. (So did Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Rick Santorum, and Mike Huckabee before they all dropped out of the 2016 presidential race). A couple of weeks ago I...