Discussions of the secular can often be peculiarly remote. Whenever secularism is imagined as unbelief, or political neutrality, or an…
The ruse of “secular humanism”
Evangelicalism
The Dobson/Obama Rorschach test
For years Barack Obama has courted the support of evangelicals. Way back in 2006, Obama served as the keynote speaker…
A progressive evangelical movement?
When people hear the words "progressive" and "evangelical" together, a sort of cognitive dissonance occurs. Meshing the notions of Jerry…
The evangelical vote
Who are evangelical voters supporting in the 2008 primary season? The facile assumption is to look for them in the…
The makings of a pastoral presidency?
It is impossible to overstate the significance of the local church pastor in the lives of conservative Protestants. Even in…
It’s the economy and the culture stupid!
I agree with Michael Lindsay that Mike Huckabee exhibits many of the qualities of a “cosmopolitan” evangelical. And yet it…
A new kind of evangelical
Mike Huckabee’s early success in the primary season shows that evangelicals have political muscles to flex in the post-George W.…