Protestantism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Bible and Colonial America
In the Beginning was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783by mark a. nolloxford university…
The Most Dangerous Man in Christendom?
A phone call last week from a pastor friend brought this strange report: One of the leading…
God as Therapy in The Shack
As a high school senior in my affluent Northern California exurb, I briefly associated with a group…
Creation Careless
In 2008, I argued in Creation Care magazine that John McCain was the only candidate who could…
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…
Wesleyans and the Reformation
It’s that time of year again, when Protestants begin to reflect on what the Reformation has meant…
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.…
