Evangelicals

The Global Christian Right

Lauren Frances Turek’s 2020 study, To Bring the Good News to All Nations, provides the basis for a more complete and accurate assessment of the Religious Right. Continue Reading »

12 Feb 2021

The constant refrain of this book is that American evangelicals are not necessarily either white or Republican. As the author points out, evangelicals are distinguished more by charitable giving than by Republican voting. And their numbers have frequently been drawn from African-American, Native . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2020

Thomas Howard, RIP

by Kenneth Craycraft

Tom had a deep sense that these things God had given us were infused with the presence of grace. Continue Reading »

17 Oct 2020

Catholic Zionism

by Gavin D’Costa

In 1965, in Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council affirmed that God’s covenant with the Jewish people is irrevocable. Lumen Gentium had done the same the year before, concurring with what St. Paul says about biblical Judaism in Romans 11:29 (“For the gifts and the call of God . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2020

The Case For Keeping Trump

by Peter J. Leithart

There are times when you have to oppose something just because you shouldn’t give the satisfaction of victory to its supporters. Continue Reading »

20 Dec 2019

Defining “Evangelical”

by Samuel D. James

A review of Thomas S. Kidd’s Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisis. Continue Reading »

14 Nov 2019

All About Evangelicals

by John Wilson

What struck me on this encounter with G. K. Chesterton’s The Innocence of Father Brown is how often in these stories “evangelical” is used as a term of scorn. Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2019

Briefly Noted

by Various

A Catholic Quest for the Holy Grail by charles a. coulombe saint benedict, 264 pages, $27.95 Despite its frequent appearances in pop culture, the Holy Grail is elusive to us—even more elusive than it was to Perceval and King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table. Films that present it as a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2019