THE DAMNATION OF THERON WARE
I recently described the problem of finding useful novels that could be used to teach on American religion, and particularly evangelicalism. As I remarked, some books are wonderful as sources, but they...
View ArticleEnd Hymnal Wars
Never agree to serve on a hymnal committee. First of all, if your church (like mine) is still using hymnals, that’s probably a sign that its membership (like mine) is aging and shrinking. Second, one...
View ArticleAmerican Presbyterians and Israel
Even some seventy years after the Second World War, when one is in Germany one receives reminders of the Holocaust. Here in Heidelberg, vacant space and an understated memorial mark the 1938...
View ArticlePresbyterians, Politics, And American Society: A Conversation With Historians...
Today we welcome Otis W. Pickett and his colleague Brian Franklin as they share their thoughts on a history panel held at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America. Otis is an...
View ArticleIt’s Not Just Evangelicals: Trump and Mainline Protestantism
Though mainline Protestants are often seen as theologically and politically progressive, many of those Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, and others continue to support Donald Trump.
View ArticleThe Sky Pilots of the North Woods
Chris tells the story of Minnesota's "sky pilots" — itinerant preachers whose ministry to lumberjacks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries brought them into conflict with labor organizers.
View ArticleThe (Lapsed) Presbyterian Piety of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
While she drew on many other religious, philosophical, and literary sources for her post-Christian spirituality, Anne Morrow Lindbergh never entirely discarded her upbringing in the Protestant...
View ArticleThe Slaves of Central Pennsylvania
Through the years, I have worked a good deal on Pennsylvania history, having taught for many centuries at Penn State University. I also spent this past Summer in that state. This post is about an...
View ArticleGod’s Cold Warrior
Miles Mullin reviews John Wilsey's new religious biography of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, whose "liberal Protestant faith informed and formed his thinking about diplomacy and the...
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