Protestantism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Evangelicals in Exile
When I was an evangelical convert in high school in the 1990s, the Religious Right was rallying—not…
Recalibrating the Culture War in 2016
We thought that the culture war was behind us and that we were entering a Brave New…
Calvinist Environmentalism?
Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise American Environmentalismby Mark StollOxford University Press, 416 pages, $39.95…
No Mystical Body on the Religious Right
Russell Moore’s 2016 Erasmus lecture, “Can the Religious Right be Saved?,” provided a wide-ranging indictment of the…
The Gospel According to Jack Chick
Jack Chick passed away last week. If the name sounds obscure, would it help if I mentioned…
Boarding in Town for School
The trick was to beasleep before the rail signalmanwhispered in with his latestgirl off the midnight train…
Every Day an Armageddon
During the mid-1970s I spent an academic year as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in…
Calvin, Kuyper, and God’s Aesthetic Purposes
Abraham Kuyper was fond of appealing to John Calvin’s authority on various subjects, but when he turned…
Puritans on the Potomac
On a late November evening in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War,…
Trump and the Lukewarm
Despite the pleas of conservative Christian leaders, large numbers of self-identified evangelicals continue to vote for Trump.…
On the Ground in Wheaton
The following remarks were among several friendly responses to Professor Miroslav Volf’s presentation, “Do Christians & Muslims…
The Third Temptation
In the mid-1970s, the famous Mennonite theologian and ethicist John Howard Yoder visited Calvin College to give…
Reaffirming Communion: An Act of Hope
The extraordinary meeting of world Anglican leaders, organized by the Archbishop of Canterbury, has ended after five…
50 Years of Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue
Acting as it does as a summary and analysis of five decades of Lutheran-Catholic dialogue, 2015’s Declaration on…
Free University Orthodoxy
During the debate over “biblical inerrancy” that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s,…
