Category: Evangelicalism
The Sexual Revolution Is Abortion
A few years ago I read an online exchange between two self-described Christians that has lingered with me as a good summary of our cultural moment. One of the speakers identified as bisexual, but also as a Christian, and was arguing...
Recovering Traditional Apologetics: A Review of Penner’s “The End of Apologetics”
I’m pleased to publish this guest review by Blake Adams.
The Business of Evangelicalism: Notes on Timothy Gloege’s “Guaranteed Pure”
One of the more complicated questions that many were asking during Donald Trump’s unlikely charge to the White House is why so many evangelicals seemed to line up behind him.
Tim Keller Goes for a Walk
This piece was co-written with Jake Meador. Tim Keller: (Walks outside on beautiful fall day, inhales deeply, and sighs contentedly) This is such a lovely day. Rachel Held Evans: What exactly are you implying?
#NeverTrump and President Trump
This will be the note I sign out on this year. I’ll be off the next seven weeks but we’ll continue to publish other authors during that time. In the build-up to the 2016 election, American evangelicals were a pessimistic...
Courage, St. Crispin’s Day, and the 2016 Election
It’s a fortunate quirk of our calendar that this year St Crispin’s Day, the day on which Henry V led the English to victory against the French in 1415 and made immortal in Shakespeare’s “Henry V,” fell two weeks before...
Our Impoverished Imaginations: The World of Jen Hatmaker
Last week Jen Hatmaker, a prominent evangelical author who most recently featured on the Belong Tour with several other notable evangelical women, gave an interview to RNS focused primarily around politics and the 2016 election. Amongst other things, they covered issues...
Categorizing the Benedict Options: A Reformation Day Reflection
Today marks the 499th anniversary of the day that would come to be seen as the spark that ignited a movement that purified the church in northern and western Europe and gave new energy to an already strong movement to...
How Evangelicals Can Build a Responsible Political Witness
Our latest contribution on this year’s election comes from Dr. Greg Forster. Russell Moore is right that self-appointed evangelical political leaders are destroying the credibility of American evangelicalism by endorsing Donald Trump. One implication, which Moore doesn’t speak to, is...
Dr. Moore and the Politics of Dinner Parties
I’m pleased to publish this essay by Susannah Black reviewing Dr. Russell Moore’s recent Erasmus Lecture given last weekend in New York City. On Monday night I got on the E train in Forest Hills and headed to the Union...