Protestantism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Sex Education We Need
Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions About Life and Sexualityby nancy pearceybaker books, 336 pages, $22.99 Love…
Evangelicalism After Billy Graham
As soon as word broke about the death of Billy Graham, the most influential Christian evangelist of…
A Good and Faithful Servant
During his last “crusade,” held in New York City in 2005, Billy Graham, America’s great pastor-evangelist, declared:…
The Legacy of Billy Graham
Billy Graham, who died Wednesday at age 99, may have addressed more people face-to-face than anyone else in…
The Bridge That George Lindbeck Built
As a college student studying theology in the 1990s, I was inspired by many great theologians of…
Donald Trump and the Evangelical “Crisis”
Recently, Ross Douthat raised some important questions about the future of evangelicalism in and after the Trump…
Evangelical Identity in an Age of Trump
With new books rolling off the presses, evangelicals continue to take stock of the age of Trump.…
Evangelical Identity and Its Crises
There continues to be sober reflection on what the Trumpian moment means for the future of evangelicalism,…
Evangelicals and Orthodox Together
Earlier this month, I moderated a panel at Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center on the nascent…
Reformation “What Might Have Beens”
The Reformers didn’t intend to split the Western church or to create new churches. Every one of…
Which Reformation? What Reform?
Despite the formulation you’ll hear before and after the October 31 quincentenary of Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses, there…
Works of Mercy
There is a quiet rethinking of Reformed theology by some African-Americans who had previously embraced it. I…
The Evangelical Future Is Mestizo
New data released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Pew Research Center have given…
Nashville and Sodom
The Nashville Statement, a largely unobjectionable assertion of classic Christian teaching on sex and gender, has invited…