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Hipsters and Hamster Balls

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On November 28, 2012 · 11 Comments · In Culture

I’m just going to come right out and say it: when it comes to arts and culture, evangelicals don’t know their Adele’s from their Elmo’s.

This is the point — well, mostly — that Daniel Siedell makes in an October 30th post at the Patheos blog “Cultivare.” Siedell writes about the [...]

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There’s Nothing New About “New Evangelicals”

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On December 13, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Religion

My next column at Patheos is a response, in part to an essay at the New York Times website entitled “The New Evangelicals” by Marcia Pally. Pally has apparently written a book of the same name, which was released last month. To readers of Patrol, of course, the story [...]

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I’d Take Nick Hornby Over Marvin Olasky Any Day

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On May 10, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Religion

I’m particularly excited about this week’s Patheos column. I begin by talking about my favorite book/movie, High Fidelity (I like the book only slightly more than the movie). In particular, I quote the passage in which Rob says, “Some people never got over the sixties, [...]

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Celebrating Osama bin Laden’s Death in a Black and White World (Preview)

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On May 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Politics, Religion

I’ve continued to reflect on the various implications and meanings of the locating and killing of Osama bin Laden. Here’s a preview of my column for Patheos, which will appear in full tomorrow morning:

The scene on Sunday night, from the pictures I saw and the live, on the ground report I gleaned from Twitter, brought [...]

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Wednesday Reading: Patrol at Patheos

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On March 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Politics, Religion

David Sessions and I are the newest columnists at the religion website Patheos, a wonderful resource that Newsweek calls “Smarter Religion.” I write every Wednesday on the various manifestations of Christianity in culture, and Sessions writes bi-weekly on American politics and culture.

This week, Sessions exhorts readers that

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Are We Talking About the Same Egypt?

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On February 9, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Religion

Last week, Timothy Dalrymple, editor of the Evangelical Portal at Patheos.com invited me to join his team as a weekly columnist. I agreed, and this morning marks the launch of “In Progress,” my weekly column, which will be published every Wednesday.

This week I wrote about the tendency among [...]

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