America continues to struggle in areas of racial and economic justice. Housing appraisals in the mid-20th century north deemed...

During the Bush administration, the evangelical political consensus crumbled. Evangelicals had served as a significant force in Bush’s...

Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung’s recent volume, Vainglory: The Forgotten Vice, provides a necessary exploration of vainglory, a vice absent...

The social upheaval of the 1960s, the creation of American civil religion, and Cold War tensions set the scene for the rise of the...

Some say that Jesus is “one mind, one soul, one being, as truly one as we are, and equally distinct from the one God” [1]. Some say it...

In the midst of mid-20th-century social upheavals in national American life and the threat of the Soviet Union’s nuclear arsenal,...

This past week, the American church has lost one of her Gandalfs among pastors, Eugene H. Peterson. As a young man, still grappling with...

The white southern church has long been criticized for its failure to stand up for African-Americans' rights during the Civil Rights...

In liberalism’s heyday, the progressive movement struggled to inspire supporters because it lacked the same appeal to tradition which...

In the Genesis creation story, God says, "Let us make humankindin our image (בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ), according to our likeness; and let them have...

Numbers is a book for people living in the tension between the "now" and the "not yet". Israel has been redeemed from Egypt, just as...

Not only did antebellum Americans have “an implicit trust that the Bible was a plain book whose authoritative deliverances could be...

Vito Baldini, pastor of Mercy Ministries at Liberti Center City and Main Line, says regarding providence, “Situations of human suffering...

In the years preceding the Civil War, the Bible functioned as the “most influential cultural force” of the young country” [1]. Americans...

Evangelicalism at the time of the Second Great Awakening was driven by three primary motivators. The first was perfectionism, “premised...

Belief in God is “living in the truth of Jesus Christ” (Barth 25). It is not a mere point-by-point assertion of belief one must be...

In early Virginia, baptism’s connection to freedom was used as an appeal for freeing slaves (Goetz 99). Planters recognized “baptism...

The Pentateuch on the whole, and Genesis, in particular, opens the stories of individual believers to the scope of God’s universal...

One of my greatest challenges at Emmanuel was when I preached. Each time I did, I found myself doubting. I stood at the microphone as a...

In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz outlines conceptions of race in colonial Virginia, particularly the concept of...