This post offers a biographical sketch of Second Great Awakening revivalist Charles Finney and summary of his most important book. Charl...

In this fascinating video, Krista Tippet, host of NPR's Fresh Air, interviews Gabe Lyons and Jim Daly.  Lyons is co-author of UnChrist...

This unlikely pair of mutually illuminating ads appeared on opposite pages in a popular evangelical magazine a couple years ago.  After narr...

Reagan was the first presidential candidate who the press credited Evangelicals for electing in 1980, the year I was born.  Find 50 minutes ...

While all “religions create action orientations ,” one of the most striking, and for some alarming, facts about Catalyst is its undeni...

In contrast to the “coolness” of being “in the world,” Catalyst also nurtures the “hipness” of a distinct subculture, which it sees as ...

Catalyst manifests the coolness-pursuit of being “in the world” in a myriad of ways.  First, the music used in the interims, rather than ...

Christian Smith’s landmark American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving labels the evangelical posture toward society as “engaged o...

In October of 2010, 13,000 zealous Christian leaders gathered and talked about changing the world. This study applies some of the tools...

I am a born and bred evangelical.  I was born in an evangelical Christian family, attended private evangelical Christian schools in elementa...

"You can't pick up the cross, without putting down the sword." ~Greg Boyd Charlie Rose interviews Pastor Gregory Boyd on h...