You don’t have to give up orthodoxy to oppose capitalism. — I am an evangelical, and I mean that in the strong sense. I was raised an evangelical by two parents who attended an evangelical seminary. I grew up going to a large evangelical church, was read the Bible every day as I homeschooled through elementary school, went to an evangelical…

Kevin DeYoung’s review of Kwon and Thompson is charitable in tone, but not in substance — Before I got the chance to read Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson’s new book on reparations, I saw murmurs across the internet about Kevin DeYoung’s review in The Gospel Coalition. I was curious enough to give the review a read and then proceeded to read the book. Whatever might be…

a longer engagement with Thaddeus Williams — I recently wrote at Evangelical Labor Institute about some of the big-picture problems with Thaddeus Williams’s arguments against socialism in his book Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth. Though the purpose of my initial article was to take a wider view, I’d like to dig a little deeper into the details…

Almost everything going on in the evangelical debate about racism on the Internet is a word game that avoids talking about the central disagreement. The disagreement is not about whether or not Black people can be racist or about the racial representation in, say, the NBA. The disagreement is not…

The most recent wave of the Black Lives Matter protests has brought with it something of a panic among the most politically conservative evangelicals — particularly, that the uprisings have been extremely prolonged and that a larger wave of white Christians than before seem to have joined league with the…