About six years ago, Liberty University took the unprecedented step of allowing concealed weapons on campus. At the time, some friends of mine were operating a website called thepublicqueue.com. The invited me to write something reflecting on that decision.
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In this blog post – the first of a number of posts devoted to this theme – I want to reflect on the many different aspects of American Evangelical Christianity that culminated in the Trump Presidency and the continued support of Evangelical voters.
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This week, in celebration of the release of Eugene Peterson's final book, As Kingfishers Catch Fire (WaterBrook, 2017), Jonathan Merritt released a series of conversations he had with Peterson in a recent interview. These conversations are brief and to the point, as one might expect when one engages with Peterson.
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I was born and raised in south Louisiana, which means I grew up surrounded by Roman Catholics. Louisiana was, in fact, so formed by the habits and traditions of French and Spanish Catholicism that to this day . . .
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