Mark Noll

Contrasting judgments often arise from studying the Niagara of words that justified the American War for Independence”together with all the words that circulated anxiously during the parlous years under the Confederation Congress”which rose to a great flood in the period 1787 to 1790 in . . . . Continue Reading »

Ten years after the publication of The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind , I remain largely unrepentant about the book’s historical arguments, its assessment of evangelical strengths and weaknesses, and its indictment of evangelical intellectual efforts, though I have changed my mind on a few . . . . Continue Reading »

John Winthrop was forty-two years old when in 1630 he joined the Puritans who left England in order to create a godly commonwealth in the new world. Behind him lay a modest life of gentlemanly accomplishment in the Suffolk countryside. Ahead lay the wilderness, but also the vision of an entire . . . . Continue Reading »