Anticipating Heaven

by Mark Bauerlein

Peter J. Leithart joins the podcast to discuss his new book, On Earth as in Heaven: Theopolis Fundamentals. Continue Reading »

6 Apr 2023 0

Prodigal Evangelicalism: A Video Essay

by Megan Basham

Megan Basham describes her experience of conversion into the evangelical church and present ideological pathologies growing within it. Continue Reading »

17 Feb 2023 0

Protestants Can't Be Apolitical

by Mark Bauerlein

Ben Dunson joins the podcast to discuss Protestantism in American politics and his website, American Reformer. Continue Reading »

2 Dec 2021 0

Founding Pastor

by Bria Sandford

In 1775, a group of American soldiers raided George Whitefield’s five-year-old grave in Newbury, Massachusetts. Hoping that his relics would secure their protection in battle, they extracted a clerical collar and wristbands from the ­celebrated preacher’s remains and divided the cloth among themselves. The staunchly Protestant Whitefield no doubt rolled in his grave when they returned him to his resting place. Continue Reading »

9 Jun 2015 0

Misreading Scripture Alone

by Mathew Block

A new survey reports that “most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by... the councils of the early church.” Is a deficient understanding of sola scriptura and tradition to blame?
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29 Oct 2014 0

On Thinking with the Church

by Dale M. Coulter

Gerald McDermott has been prosecuting a case against a certain version of evangelical theology over the past few years (see here and here). His fundamental point is the need to recover the Great Tradition within Evangelicalism and thus to read scripture in and through the lens of the church spread out through time. To fail to read scripture in this way, according to McDermott, is to hold to nuda scriptura in which the interpretation of scripture is reduced to the application of current sensibilities that reinforce the autonomy of the late-modern individual. When personal interpretation trumps the tradition, McDermott wonders how one can ever move beyond a new kind of Babylonian captivity, the captivity of interpretation to a modern cultural milieu. Continue Reading »

27 May 2014 0

Women and Teaching in Evangelicalism

by Dale M. Coulter

The new president of Cedarville University, a Christian college in Ohio, has decided that no woman shall teach a man in any Biblical studies. This reflects a long-running debate within Evangelicalism (see here and here) over gender complementarianism and the role of women. To be . . . . Continue Reading »

15 May 2014 0

Evangelicals and Fatima

by Hunter Baker

As I may have mentioned earlier, I grew up with Catholics on my mother’s side and the Church of Christ on my father’s side.  Not exactly a recipe for happy relations.  For the record, the Catholics were more gracious about it.  I found the tension painful, difficult, and . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Oct 2009 0

Is it the 19th Century All Over Again?

by David Wayne

As usual I’m late to the party.  Joe and I have been friends for several years now and in honor of our friendship I changed e-mail addresses and didn’t let him know.  So, we’ve finally caught up and today I join this august body of bloggers, feeling way in over my head, . . . . Continue Reading »

22 Oct 2009 0

What’s an Evangelical?: A College Convert’s View

by Hunter Baker

When I became a Christian at Florida State University at the end of the eighties, I encountered a different kind of Christian from the ones I knew as a southerner from Alabama.Growing up, virtually everyone was some kind of churchgoer whether they were Southern Baptists, Episcopalians, Church of . . . . Continue Reading »

19 Oct 2009 0