The Immanent Frame: The riddle of the middle
Baptist minister and sociologist Tony Campolo was arguably the first to send shock waves through the ranks of the religious right two decades ago when he responded to a question about his political...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Southern Baptists’ hands-on approach to changing the world
On the evening of Good Friday 2013, several thousand young evangelicals will file into The Church at Brook Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, one of the largest Southern Baptist congregations in that Red...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Are “new evangelicals” a new phenomenon or a reversion to...
In her piece, Marcia Pally continues her most commendable attempt to describe the diversity of evangelical political opinion in the United States, and to provide a more nuanced account even of the...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: A complex story
The American religious landscape is being altered by what Mark Noll calls “a more pluralistic evangelicalism than has ever existed before.” First, in the movement Marcia Pally describes,...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Global reflex
As both Marcia Pally and David Gushee note, there is no historical reason why evangelicalism should identify with a single political orientation. There is also no global reason. Research on...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Remembering a different evangelicalism
Celebrating the ideological diversity of contemporary evangelicalism, Marcia Pally heralds the advent of a religious non-right. Shattering stereotypes of a monolithic conservatism, she performs a...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Does fragmentation equal change?
Marcia Pally’s post tracks the important fact that contemporary American evangelical social and political engagement is fragmenting. She rightly observes that such fragmenting is not historically...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: What has been will be again
Marcia Pally’s incisive essay on “the new evangelicals” highlights a relatively small but growing population of white evangelicals who appear to be embracing broader, less conservative visions of the...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Janus-faced justice
I read Daniel Philpott’s new book, Just and Unjust Peace, around the same time that I finished a novel by Christopher Beha, entitled What Happened to Sophie Wilder? In Beha’s novel, the titular Sophie...
View ArticleThe Immanent Frame: Recasting an agenda for peace
The International Criminal Court (ICC) celebrated its ten-year anniversary last summer. During its first decade of life, both the shadow and the actuality of international justice in the form of...
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