Theology

WDJD (What Did Jesus Do)?: Do Evangelicals Care?

by Adam Jortner

While American leftists could find much to embrace in the Gospels, the political actions of many white Evangelicals is likely to push them away. Is it too late to reverse the merger of evangelicalism with conservative movement politics? 

What Happens When the "End Times" are Now?

by Martyn Whittock

Evangelical Christianity's enthusiasm for viewing current events as markers of the End Times is nothing new, but those tempted to mockery should nevertheless recognize how politically potent those ideas can be. 

Conquering Hell

by Ed Simon

"Hell’s tragedy is that those who deserve to go there almost never think that they will, while the pious shame-filled neurotic imagines those flames with scrupulous anxiety" – HNN contributing editor Ed Simon meditates on the American engagement with damnation. 

The Bishops Are Wrong About Biden — and Abortion

by Garry Wills

The historian of Catholicism argues that the US Bishops' demand to deny communion to Joe Biden over his abortion policies rests on a shoddy understanding of the Church's own history with the issue. 

America Does Have an "Original Sin": A Response to James Goodman

by Joshua Ward Jeffery

"Original Sin" is a fit metaphor for longstanding inequities in American society, but it's important to understand that the original sin is settler colonialism and the seizure of indigenous land, which American civic religion has been all too willing to accommodate. 

Examining Christian End Times Rhetoric in the Time of COVID

by Andrew Joseph Pegoda

Historical amnesia and everyday privilege are what make it seem to some Christians that end prophecies are actively in progress.

The One Thing that Two Big Anniversaries This Month Have in Common

by Ed Simon

One celebrates the founding of the USSR, the other Protestantism. They involve theology (as does all politics).