McAlister aims for nothing less than a repositioning of the history of American evangelicalism, from an almost entirely domestic context…
At home in the world
evangelicals
Imperialists in cassock?
It is one thing to write a good book. It is another thing entirely to write a timely book, and…
The other evangelicals
Conducting ethnographic fieldwork across the country, I witnessed evangelicals engage diverse racial, economic, religious, political, and moral-cultural others in a…
Underestimating the force of the New Evangelicals in the public sphere
Lessons from Colombia, South America
Keeping sex sexy: American evangelicalism and the problem of sexuality
Do Christians have the best sex? What kind of sex is best? And what does sex have to do with…
David Gushee shifts on homosexuality
On November 8, David P. Gushee, Distinguished University Professor at Mercer University, leading evangelical ethicist, and TIF contributor, will give…
Overlapping senses of salvation
With a Guatemala’s history of social and political instability, the place of religion in public life is often fraught with…
Odd to each other
It is a distinct honor when someone as lettered as Leon Wieseltier takes one on in public, as he does…
The renewal of evangelical philosophy
Over at Commonweal contributing editor Nathan Schneider writes about the renewal of Christian, and more specifically evangelical, philosophy in the United States…
Prayer, imagination, and the voice of God—in global perspective
Tanya Marie Luhrmann is a psychological anthropologist and a Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. Her work explores how people…