Disciples Are Made in the Home

by Rebekah Curtis

Christian couples’ personal decisions to keep their families small has amounted to the shrinking of America's churches. Continue Reading »

9 Oct 2017

When Things Fall Apart

by Ephraim Radner

Christians in America are increasingly like Christians in Egypt, determining under which enemy one can perhaps survive. Continue Reading »

13 Oct 2016

Civil Righteousness and the Gospel in the American Church

by James R. Rogers

It’s one thing for the American political regime to value Christian churches because they help supply the moral requisites for sustaining the regime; for churches themselves to conceive of their purpose in this way is quite another thing. Continue Reading »

3 Oct 2016

The Need for Epiphanic Evangelicalism

by James R. Rogers

The second challenge I see facing American churches today (I discuss the first one here) is how the Church engages postmodernism in American culture. By “postmodern” I do not simply mean the period succeeding modernity, however one wants to date that. Rather, I mean the subjectivist thrust of . . . . Continue Reading »

11 Jan 2016

The Ecclesiastical Failure of Christian America

by James R. Rogers

Ross Douthat’s Erasmus lecture, “A Crisis of Conservative Catholicism,” and Carl Trueman’s column, “Is There A Crisis in Conservative Protestantism?” put me in mind to think about the American Church. That said, I’m more of a “not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper” kind of guy, not that . . . . Continue Reading »

16 Dec 2015

Religion and Presidential Voting Patterns

by Greg Forster

This just in: Jerry Falwell is still dead Continue Reading »

6 Oct 2015

This Time Narnia is a City

by Gene Fant

A confluence is occurring in Christian higher education in the U.S., with new leaders at strategic urban institution, just in time for new opportunities to be pursued.
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7 Jul 2014

Founding Believers

by Joe Carter

What were the religious beliefs of the founding fathers? That question is at the heart of many of the most contentious debates about the role of religion in the American public square. Countless arguments are centered on claims that the founders were either God-fearing Christians or Deistically-inclined secularists. But while historical documents are often mined for justifying quotes, few people bother to muster historical evidence to shore up their claims with the necessary academic rigor… . Continue Reading »

22 Sep 2010

The “American” Religion

by Richard John Neuhaus

The great contest is over the culture, the guiding ideas and habits of mind and heart that inform the way we understand the world and our place in it. Christians who, knowingly or unknowingly, embrace the model of “Christ without culture”—meaning Christianity in indifference to culture—are . . . . Continue Reading »

12 Dec 2008

The Bishops in Council

by Timothy M. Dolan

Twenty-five years ago this month, Pope John Paul II made his first pastoral visit to the United States, meeting the American bishops in Chicago. In his address to them, the former university professor used a style that was both innovative and pedagogically effective: he quoted from an array of . . . . Continue Reading »

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