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This is my third attempt to examine the tenets and manifestations of Christian nationalism. I posted two blogs on this topic in 2020. The first was mostly a review of Messiah College’s history professor John Fea’s 2018 Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, and the second mostly a review of journalist Katherine Stewart’s 2022 The Power Worshippers: Inside…
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Pakistani American academic, Ahmed Afzaal, an associate professor of religion at Concordia College in Minnesota, departed from his research and writing on religion when he published Teaching at Twilight: The Meaning of Education in the Age of Collapse (Cascade Books, 2023). Our paths intersected, Afzaal and I, when in 2012 I co-edited an issue of the journal Worldviews: Global Religions,…
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As Christmas draws near, I want to comment of the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation, drawing from the first two essays in the latest issue of Christianity Today (Russell Moore, “All I want for Christmas is a time machine”; Deborah Haarsma, “The Incarnation sheds light on Astrophysics”). My first three posts about Christmas date to 2011, 2012 and finally 2013…
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I would not have written this post had I not been part of a foursome virtual book club. One of these friends from my 1970s seminary days in the Boston area had been reading a book by award-winning author specialized in early American history (four awards, including being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize): Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Eye of…

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