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Christopher Bryan is, if his prose any indicator, both a scholar’s curmudgeon — much on the order of Morna Hooker — and a happy person. He’s a scholar’s curmudgeon because he doesn’t buy trendy scholarship just because everyone likes it, and he writes with a clever lilt — the kind that makes you occasionally smile.…

What about universalism? Before I say anything, I want to ask if you think the following proposal by Spencer is universalist or if it is not more accurately a (very, very) “generous inclusivism”? Here are Spencer Burke’s central theses, and I’ve gone back over these more lately and they have led me to change the…

The conclusion to Randall Balmer’s Thy Kingdom Come is both a jeremiad and a plea — a critique of the Religious Right and a basket of suggestions of how evangelicals can move forward. There is no way to sum this up, so let me offer some highlights:

I’ve got a book that you need (or one like it): Ginny Olson’s Teenage Girls: Exploring Issues Adolescent Girls Face and Strategies to Help Them. Recently Kris and I were at a store, we went to the counter, and I observed on the wrist of the 20-yr old young woman slash marks: “Cutting,” I said…
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