Church History
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Why Evangelicals Are Leaving Protestantism for Ot…
In recent decades, there has been a significant and sustained trend of Protestants converting to Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.…
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Artistic Humility in the Age of ‘Hot AI Jesus’
Why pray alone or with your family if you can pray with big-biceped celebrities on the Hallow app? Why limit…
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Three Evangelical ‘Founding Fathers’ and Their Complicated Relationships to Slavery
How should white evangelicals think about slavery and past evangelical heroes who affirmed its practice? A new book by historian…
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‘Rattlesnakes Don’t Commit Suicide’ | Christianity Today
In February, I preached one of the Black History Month sermons at Zion Baptist Church, a traditional Black church in…
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Doubting Thomas: Why the Evangelical Crush on Aquinas Needs to Ma…
To engage with the medieval Italian priest Thomas Aquinas (1224–74) is to approach one of history’s greatest theological giants. Aquinas…
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The Church Fathers Belong in Creation Debates. But Handle Them with Care.
On September 11, 2020, I found myself under a large tent, where 51 ministers of the Reformed Presbyterian Church had…
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Let the Cultural Christians Come unto Jesus
As Christianity continues to decline in the West, the broader world has begun to notice something’s missing. There seems to…
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Biblical Literacy in a Postliterate Age
Christians are readers. We are “people of the book.” We own personal Bibles, translated into our mother tongues, and read…
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The Bible’s Development Is a Messy Story, but It Can Bolster Our Faith
What does history have to do with faith? Everything. As Paul attests in 1 Corinthians 15, Christ died. He was…
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The Myth Behind the Meaning of Paul’s Words on Women and Childbearing
As a female New Testament scholar, I simply do not have the luxury of avoiding 1 Timothy 2:11–15, where Paul,…
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