Clifford Geertz said it first (riffing on Ryle): the difference between twitches and winks could only be accomplished by "sorting…
American politics
A tale of two mavericks
Long before field dressing moose and shooting wolves from helicopters became part of American political parlance, a United States senator…
What does Azusa have to do with Washington?
Does a candidate's faith matter? That seems to be one of the more pressing questions being asked in opinion pieces…
Perplexed by Pentecostalism
Lost in the discussion of Sarah Palin's religion is an appreciation for the diversity of American Pentecostalism, past and present.
Why do we want to know?
"Evangelicals"---getting a handle on the concept requires asking why we want to know.
Telling the old, old story
Just when we thought we knew what to expect from evangelicals, they seem to be changing again. After more than…
The global evangelical
Evangelicals, contra their isolationist or xenophobic image, have become a well-traveled group, going to places usually reserved for anthropologists and…
Promoting marriage and Christianity in America
Following the recent California Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, National Public Radio offered a report on “the…
Reforming culture
What exactly was wrong with the Yearning for Zion ranch---home to a group identified with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus…
The race to marriage
On April 3, 2008, state authorities raided a polygamous compound in Eldorado, Texas founded by Warren Jeffs, the now imprisoned…