by Richard Pierard | Oct 3, 2008 | Opinion
Earlier generations of fundamentalists and evangelicals conveniently ignored the social dimensions of Jesus’ message and heaped condemnation on the heads of these men and women for promoting a “false gospel” which they claimed deviated from historic...
by Richard Pierard | Sep 4, 2008 | Opinion
Southern Baptists on Sept. 24 are launching a 40-day Prayer Vigil for Spiritual Revival and National Renewal. The daily prayers will include requests for God’s guidance in voting, for the election of more “godly” Christians, for God to “help...
by Richard Pierard | Aug 18, 2008 | Opinion
As a long-time student of civil religion (I co-authored a book in 1988 entitled “Civil Religion and the Presidency” that the publisher quickly took out of print because the evangelical audience to which it was directed was [and still is] unwilling to face...
by Richard Pierard | Sep 29, 2004 | Opinion
The Holocaust, the effort of the German Nazis to wipe out the entire Jewish population of Europe, is the greatest tragedy that the Jewish people every faced. It is also a Christian problem because most of the perpetrators of the Holocaust were baptized church members,...
