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Nov 26, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Randall Balmer |David P. Gushee |Tim Alberta |Mac Loftin
What more can we say about evangelicalism? This is the perennial question for religious scholars of the past decade. While the answer may very well be “not much,” evangelicals continue to give historians, scholars, and public commentators ample source material for the next book. Indeed, an incredible number of commentaries, histories, and analyses of American evangelicalism were released in 2023.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
baptistnews.com | David P. Gushee
As I write, it is four weeks until the election. The polls on reputable sites like Fivethirtyeight.com are giving the Harris-Walz ticket a very slight advantage, with the results coming down to one or two states. Those of us who lean left in politics frequently find ourselves in ultimately fruitless conversations in which one or the other of us says something like: “I don’t see how it’s close. I don’t see how so many of our fellow citizens could vote for Trump. Again.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
breakpoint.org | Richard B. Hays |David P. Gushee |Glen Stassen |John Stonestreet
A well-respected theologian has a new book on God’s mercy that has many questioning his conclusions. Is free speech in jeopardy, not just overseas but here in America? John and Maria will look at the latest developments on our constitutional rights.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
baptistnews.com | David P. Gushee
I am writing this post very early in the morning of Friday, Sept. 6. It is less than 48 hours after 14-year-old Colt Gray decided to start his freshman year at Apalachee High School, 40 minutes north of me, by murdering his classmates and teachers, four of whom are dead, nine of whom are injured. I begin with a confession. When I first hear of a school shooting, my initial instinct is to try not to process it very deeply. I try not to think about it.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
baptistnews.com | David P. Gushee
After a tumultuous and fascinating two months in American politics, here are some things I see as this election year moves into its final stretch. After the June presidential debate, Joe Biden’s candidacy was doomed. He was right to drop out. There was no unseeing the feebleness we all saw. Afterward, the polls were showing Biden losing support seemingly by the hour.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Nancy Bedford |Marilyn Chandler McEntyre |Philip Jenkins |David P. Gushee
When I walked across the threshold into what Susan Sontag called “the kingdom of the sick,” I held the belief that the imago Dei was a metaphor that set humans apart and demonstrated God’s love for us. Now a small relative of mine, a transgenic lab mouse known as OncoMouse, is demolishing that understanding of what it means to be human. OncoMouse shatters all the traditional boundaries I’ve held so dear: human/nonhuman, nature/culture, artificial/natural.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Nancy Bedford |Marilyn Chandler McEntyre |Philip Jenkins |David P. Gushee
An El Paso, Texas, district court judge ruled July 2 that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had violated the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable government searches and seizures, in his targeting of Annunciation House, a network of nonprofit Catholic migrant shelters.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Nancy Bedford |Philip Jenkins |Marilyn Chandler McEntyre |David P. Gushee
Is affirming LGBTQ people an act of colonizing theology?
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Marilyn Chandler McEntyre |Philip Jenkins |David P. Gushee |Nancy Bedford
To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. No one voted. As the story of David’s anointing goes, elders from all the tribes of Israel gathered and, recognizing him as the one the Lord had chosen, made him king by acclaim. It wasn’t a democracy, and no one voted. They acted together.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
baptistnews.com | David P. Gushee
The 248th birthday of our country will be celebrated this year under dark shadows. Personally, I will not be doing much celebrating. Let’s review our situation, shall we? Former President Donald Trump already was leading in the presidential election polls before the June 27 debate between him and President Joe Biden. In that debate, this is what I saw. Joe Biden came across as physically and intellectually enfeebled.
