The After Party, a forthcoming program led by Curtis Chang and developed with David French and Russell Moore, offers pastors and small groups a curriculum “reframing Christian political identity from today’s divisive partisan options.” It is funded by secular left-wing foundations. Continue Reading »
What does it mean to cultivate Christian wildness in North America? There are few markers of deep memory by which to orient ourselves to the work of concentration. Continue Reading »
George Yancey joins the podcast to discuss his book, One Faith No Longer: The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America. Continue Reading »
A national flag in a church is not a sign of idolatry, but a reminder to the faithful to remember the specific magistrate we pray for. Continue Reading »
From G. K. Chesterton to Sidney Mead to Robert Bellah and beyond, observers have noted that America is a “nation with the soul of a church.” No one, however, has yet attempted to assess the latest manifestation of this fusion of Christianity and nationalism. Taking America Back for . . . . Continue Reading »
Back in 1998, at a theological conference, I heard a pastor (we’ll call him Pastor V.) of my denomination (the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod) recount what had driven him out of his second call, a mission church in Lawrence, Kansas. It was the early ’90s, and Lawrence was one of the . . . . Continue Reading »
In our consumerist culture, Christian references have become so trivialized that we no longer recognize when mass market advertisers misuse them. Continue Reading »
If God chooses to raise up “another Billy Graham,” then there will indeed be another. Continue Reading »
Billy Graham deserves to be ranked among the greatest evangelical preachers—with Dwight L. Moody, George Whitefield, and John Wesley. Continue Reading »
Billy Graham’s combination of style, timing, authority and, above all, sincerity left little doubt that he was the best in the world at what he did. Continue Reading »
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