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The Hollowing Out of Church and Culture
What Burge sees in recent data is a deepening polarization with a diminishing basis in belief.
Jeff Japinga
February 18, 2026
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What Burge sees in recent data is a deepening polarization with a diminishing basis in belief.
Confession is for humans. It’s a human practice to help us deal with
the shame. Confession’s not for God’s sake.
The Hulu series The Bear won six Emmys in January, including the award for Outstanding Comedy Series. This gritty, humorous, searing TV series centers on
There are many today, myself included, who feel as though they are not in control of their relationship with technology. Our screen might be the
Editor’s Note: In Part III of this series, Jon Witt considers the implications of his research into the relationship of the rise of the religious
Self-care is building a healthy, sustainable life that you don’t need to escape from.
Editor’s Note: On December 27, 2021. we ran an essay entitled “Reformed and Always . . . Deconstructing” by Howard Schaap. That essay included Schaap’s
A phenomenal digital resource, includes an essay by Kristin Kobes DuMez of Calvin University.
It’s possible that this time around, you don’t feel quite right saying, “Happy New Year.” I haven’t heard from too many people who feel optimistic
As a matter of survival, I generally stay away from social media mud-slinging contests. However, last June, when someone posted an anti-COVID vaccine link, I
The latest from Pew — 40% call religion “very important” in their life. 25% attend worship weekly.
I don’t have a lot of clear memories of my first Christmas day in India, but I do know I went to a circus. I
“Out of the blue, she messaged me saying she thought Jesus was speaking to her and she wanted to read the bible.”
Kobes DuMez is interviewed by Politico on “Why Republicans Can’t Stop Talking about Masculinity.”
Gwen Frisbie-Fulton on the Rittenhouse verdict. How does it feel to be celebrated for being bad?
Reproductive rights are once again in the news this fall with Texas’s latest attempt to restrict access to abortion. Though litigation surrounding Texas’s new abortion
Tish Harrison Warren talks with Deborah Haarsma, president of BioLogos.
Tisby considers his own upbringing and how the new Netflix docudrama might have helped him as a young man.
“Evangelical” is just another word for Republican — so says Political Scientist Ryan Burge.
Is the label “Evangelical” purely political and beyond redemption?
I’m missing the friction that should exist between a faithful life and accepted normalcy. Maybe I miss the weirdness of my poor, Jesusy, hippie childhood
The progressive Christian festival in North Carolina’s mountains struggles to address the deep racism built into so much of its assumptions.
The acerbic comedian, who died last month, hinted at faith and became gentler in comedy, as he aged.
What if the award-winning show is about more than simply a “nice-guy”?
Former blogger on The Twelve, Jes Kast, explains her changing understanding of abortion in this 2019 interview.
The recent census numbers confirm how multi-cultural the US is becoming. Immigrants may revive American evangelicalism.
Much media and scholarly attention has pointed toward the coming “liberal” young Mormons. But it will it actually bring about change in the LDS?
Troll Farms in Macedonia and Ukraine are especially successful in targeting American Christians on social media.
When my daughter came out of her room, teary-eyed, and said she had received a message on social media that disturbed her, my first thought
A number of years ago I came to greatly admire the Catholic activist Dorothy Day. There’s so much about Day’s story to love–her passion for
My recent pursuit began quite simply. I was walking the dog on a snowy afternoon, listening to essayist and poet Ross Gay on a This
I confess to mixed emotions. These emotions ping-pong between gratitude and longing. Let’s start with the gratitude. Like nearly every theatre person in the world
On Friday, June 5, a Justice Walk took place In Orange City, Iowa. Orange City is a rural Northwest Iowa community that is predominately white,
We live in suspicious times. I wore a mask during my most recent trip to the grocery store. As I was checking out, I noticed
On March 27, the New York Times reported that although in some respects COVID-19 was uniting Americans in a common experience, it was also exposing
My family lived in Southern Ohio when I was between the ages of five and ten, and after trying the local Presbyterian Church for a
Late in a recent summer, I spent an entire day with my departmental compatriots working on Student Learning Outcomes. This is merely the latest manifestation
THE OVERSTORY RICHARD POWERS W. W. NORTON & COMPANY. INC., 2018 $27.95 512 PAGES Richard Powers, a National Book Award winner, has been writing science-
Don’t get me wrong, teachers are my heroes. This week, my son’s kindergarten teacher discovered that he had been unknowingly playing with another child’s vomit
A LIGHT SO LOVELY: THE SPIRITUAL LEGACY OF MADELEINE L’ENGLE SARAH ARTHUR ZONDERVAN, 2018 $13.38, PAPERBACK 224 PAGES If she were alive, Madeleine L’Engle would
There’s a billboard out by the highway featuring a picture of John Wayne in all his western glory with the caption “Don’t Much Like Quitters,
A couple of Fridays ago, some friends and I took the hourlong trip to an off-the-beaten-path dive bar in Nebraska – Bob’s Bar, in Martinsburg.