Tearing Down Evangelical Icons: Why Penn’s Decision to Remove George Whitefield Statue May Be Good for American Evangelicalism
It’s a curious fact of history that a statue of John Wesley stands prominently ensconced…
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Why Has the Critique of Hypocrisy Run Out of Steam?
President Donald Trump recently led a ceremony on National Prayer Day, just a day after…
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When You Argue With a Fundamentalist You Don’t Know What You’re Asking For
One of the biggest questions I received after writing about Trump, evangelicals, and the end…
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Pro-Born: A Former Evangelical on the Single-Issue Politics of White Christians
Abortion is murder. That refrain played in my head as I closed the curtain in…
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#Churchtoo: Apology of Evangelical Pastor Accused of Sexual Assault Shows Why Sorry Isn’t Enough
As the #metoo movement shines a necessary, long overdue light on men in the workplace…
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Dear Timothy Keller: The “Evangelical” Problem isn’t Pollsters
In response to the public identity crisis voiced by some white evangelicals since Donald Trump’s…
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How America’s Charismatic Christianity Helped Fuel the Fantasyland Presidency of Donald Trump
The United States is suffering through an epistemic crisis. From day to day it seems…
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What Does Repentance Look Like For the White Church?: A Conversation with Lisa Sharon Harper
We are four months and counting into the administration of one of the least qualified…
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This Is How You Lose Them: Why “Generation Z” Won’t Be Flocking To Churches Anytime Soon
Evangelicalism’s routine disengagement toward what matters to younger, more inclusive generations will only hasten its slide into irrelevance.
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Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads
He seemed drunk and ready for a fight. The man, mid-fifties, towering and broad shouldered,…
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