Earlier this week we heard about the evangelical backgrounds of public intellectuals Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood. Summarizing…
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How important was Oral Roberts?
The passing of another iconic televangelist has led to a flurry of media coverage. How important was Oral Roberts?
Growing up evangelical
At Killing the Buddha, Kiera Feldman reports on a recent panel that brought together Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine…
A tale of two Franks
Franklin Graham and Frank Schaeffer are outspoken sons of famous evangelical leaders. President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, the…
Evangelicals and nuclear abolitionism
At First Thoughts, Brian Auten discusses the Two Futures Project, led by Baptist minister Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, and the prospects for…
Witness to compassion
At Progressive Revival, and in honor of World AIDS Day, Diana Butler Bass bears witness to the compassion of her…
Speech and space
Like Webb Keane, I have come to see some metapragmatic elements in evangelical culture as bringing about some important and…
Rehabilitating religious rights talk
In December, we celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted by the United Nations General…
Changing of the guard
In the wake of the presidential election, who now speaks for American evangelicals?
Talking right, stumbling left
Sarah Palin's popularity and notoriety has many sources, but one source of her Red America popularity has not been sufficiently…