Knowing Waves of Feminism The Seneca Falls Convention The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments Suffrage and Abolition Racism within the movement Suffrage, Temperance, and the WCTU Reading Iron Jawed Angels.…

It’s not for myself but for my students, and my students to come, that I must speak out.  Questioning conventional wisdom in public is not something that makes a person…

Rachel Held Evans, “Why Millennials are Leaving the Church” (CNN Belief Blog) Folks who have been along for the ride will know that sometimes I find Rachel Held Evans insightful,…

So January started to wrap up, and I got the notification: Gus Cole-Kroll, podcast listener and Christian Humanist friend, had called on me, along with Tripp Fuller of Homebrewed Christianity…

Every fall, I teach the Honors Freshman Composition class at Emmanuel College, an opportunity that I do not take lightly.  In the course of those fifteen weeks we learn together…

A New Evangelical Manifesto: A Kingdom Vision of the Common Good Edited by David P. Gushee 240 pp. Chalice Press. $24.99. I’ll go ahead and shoot straight here: when I…

General Introduction – Manageable outcomes assessment – Midterm grades vs. Fall Break – Listener feedback – Teaching rhetoric at Christian colleges The Controversy Over the President – What the Anti-Federalists…

General Introduction – David squares the circle – The chatter continues on the blog – Email, Facebook, or nothing at all What Is a Federalist, Anyway? – The Articles of…

Here’s a thought I just had: what if Americans aren’t anti-intellectual per se but have an aversion to the Appeal to Authority? In my experience, actually taking the time to articulate…

An Open Letter to Young, “Post-Partisan” Evangelicals by David French Post-Partisan Evangelicals, Perception Versus Reality, and the Moral Primacy of the Abortion Debate by David French Since I’ve commented recently…

The High Holy Days of the American calendar sneak up on me more often than not.  By the time I’ve realized that Mother’s Day is upon us, I’m usually scrambling…

I seem to get into some trouble when I ask questions about political matters, but here goes anyway.  I honestly don’t get some of the online reactions to North Carolina’s…

General Introduction – David’s new baby – Last weeks of the semester – Bewildering listener feedback – A plug from Homebrewed Christianity Historicize! – 9/11 – Bush vs. Gore –…

Especially when the government dictates that the whole nation must get up an hour earlier every morning!  World War One is over, folks!  Down with Daylight Saving!

General Introduction – NERD ALERT – The status of the forum – What’s on the blog? – We attack Robert Harrison Christians in American Political History – Lack of a…