Christian Nationalism and Interpretation of The Westminster Confession juicyecumenism.com/2024/04/23/chr… via @theird

Maybe the argument should be phrased as “the scandal of the dispensationalist mind” or “the scandal of the charismatic mind.” The PCA, for example, was relatively well represented regionally in the upper echelons of govt and the academy in the 80s and 90s despite being tiny.

This is how most people feel. I write not to offend in recreation. I record common and civilized opinion. I take none of this back. In solidarity with the reasonable many. And - no amount of rhetoric will scare me. You're not gonna win. nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opi…

I was in a funeral at a mainline congregation on Sat. We vested in the church library. It was filled w Charles Swindoll, Max Lucado etc and “evangelical” thinkers.” So a lot of these complaints are frustrations from academic types in the abstract and not “evangelical” specific.

One of the things I dislike about the “scandal of the evangelical mind thesis is that it seems like I’m supposed to assume that there was some pristine intellectually sophisticated mainline mind from 1940-1990?

I can more or less predict the religious background and socio-intellectual formation of every author of an Exvangelical or anti-Trump work. And that’s not because I’m that smart.

Just musing out loud:

I think something got lost when Evangelical and Baptist became synonymous.

Seems like in seeking to shed off the label of being “sectarian,” some Baptists overreacted and blended the two labels (groups) together.

For the evening crowd: today Current, I review Sarah McCammon📻's The Exvangelicals. currentpub.com/2024/04/23/rev…

Miles Smith IV One of my thesis committee readers told me C Vann Woodward rejected this from the Oxford History of the US because it went into too much salacious detail on Sylvester Graham

Oh boy the internet discovered Loran Livingston.

[let the long time Charlottean reader understand.]

In many ways the closest thing we have; theres also the topographic analogy, in West Virginia and Wales.

First edition, near fine. Nine bucks at Lowry’s.

1830s polemical works against freethinkers are an absolute hoot.

Great lecture by Miles Smith IV on the Christian Institutionalism of early America. Really worth the watch.

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Ok you're an A&M fan. What type of A&M fan are you?

you need to be a licensed historian to do that

'She links the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville...with the anti-Catholic mobs of the 1830s, the Klan rallies of the 1860s, and anti–New Deal demonstrations of the 1930s.' christiancentury.org/review/books/c…

Oliver O'Donovan: The question for Christian politics is always: “how can the defense of this common good, focused around this common identity at this time and in this way, be brought to serve that common good which belongs to the all-embracing identity, individual and

Meet our American Politics and Government conference committee!

Today we are highlighting Jennifer Frey.

Jennifer Frey is the inaugural dean of the Honors College at The University of Tulsa and a philosophy professor. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of

Charles Baird's *Eutaxia* springs to mind, along with *The Book of Common Worship.*

A colleague points out--helpfully I think--that talking about 'institutions' in the abstract in 2024 America is a mistake.