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The New Divide in Global Anglicanism
For the last fifty years the Anglican Communion has been divided over the doctrine of marriage. That came to an end in April 2023 when Global South Anglicans declared...
The Devil’s Face in Gaza
Last week in Israel I saw the aftermath of diabolical barbarism. That is, what was left behind after Satan’s face appeared. I joined a group of Christian leaders, hosted...
Divinity Schools and Diversity
Imagine if someone claimed that Jesus was a capitalist. He might point to Jesus’s parable of the talents, where he says the man with one talent should have invested...
A Lonely Hart
David Bentley Hart is fun to tangle with. When you disagree with him, you get treated to sesquipedalian name-calling. You also learn new things about yourself. In my case, I have...
Hart’s Turn To Heterodoxy
Tradition and Apocalypse:An Essay on the Future of Christian Beliefby david bentley hartbaker academic, 208 pages, $24.99 David Bentley Hart was once the darling of postliberal theologians for his...
Woke Theory at Evangelical Colleges
Parents from Biden-voting areas such as Westchester County (NY), Maricopa County (AZ), and northern Virginia have been protesting the teaching of critical race theory in their public schools. They...
False Race Narratives
Fault Lines:The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastropheby voddie t. baucham, jr.salem books, 270 pages, $24.99 Several years ago I sent a manuscript on race to an evangelical...
Wanted: Pastors with Courage
Pastors have many reasons to be afraid in these troubled times. COVID has divided their congregations between those who want to reopen the churches and those who think that...
Race and Redemption
The death of George Floyd has shaken our nation’s foundations. Our churches are rightly trying to respond with compassion. But in pursuing that admirable goal, many church leaders and...
The Bible’s Many Gods
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Is Evangelical Liberalism an Oxymoron?
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Was Moses a Stutterer?
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No, the God of the Qur’an is Not the God of the Bible
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Evangelicals and the Coming Romney Victory
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Evangelicals Divided
Long confused with fundamentalism by most of the academy and dismissed as intellectually inadequate, evangelical theology has in the last two decades become one of the liveliest and most...