Protestantism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
How to Battle for Hearts and Minds
In a forthcoming issue of First Things, I review a fine book by Michael McVicar, who teaches at Florida…
Toward Dystopia
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by nick bostrom oxford, 352 pages, $29.95 Since cofounding the World Transhumanist Association…
Spurgeon at Year’s End
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was a cigar-smoking Baptist pastor in Victorian London whose influence, even in his…
Evangelical Liturgy, High and Low
Evangelical versus Liturgical?: Defying a Dichotomyby melanie rosseerdmans, 165 pages, $17 Ever since the 1994 publication of…
A Biblical Vision of Marriage
Too often, we Evangelical Protestants have harmed our public witness and failed in fidelity by proclaiming the…
Fatal Revival?
A half century ago, a little book, titled “Kyrosed och secularisering” (Church Customs and Secularization) appeared in…
The Problem of Self Loathing at Evangelical Colleges
When I was an undergraduate at an evangelical college in the Pacific Northwest, I encountered a unique…
Protestantism in the Desert
I admit to having experienced perverse enjoyment when first hearing the story Episcopal Bishop James Pike. The…
The Evangelical Academy
We were doing an interview on an NPR station, a kind of “point-counterpoint” thing. The other interviewee…
What Women Bishops Mean For Christian Unity
On July 14, 2014, the General Synod of the Church of England voted to permit women to…
The Anglican Wannabe Fallacy
Prior to April 27’s canonization-doubleheader, I taped a lengthy interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, discussing both…
A Crash Course in Q
Let’s keep Christianity weird.” So said the Southern Baptists’ official face to the nation, Russell Moore, as…
Lutheran Evangelicals
Why is Calvinism so influential among American Evangelicals while Lutheranism is not? We might describe the statistically…
Roman Catholics and Confessional Lutherans Explore Deeper Ties
In 1976, Joseph Ratzinger”then still a professor”suggested “it might be possible to interpret [the Augsburg Confession (CA)”i.e.,…
Constitutionally Catholic
The tension between American democracy, capitalism, and culture is acute—more acute, perhaps, than at any time in…
