by David Swartz | Feb 17, 2020 | Opinion
Popular depictions of “ugly Americans” and intolerant missionaries buttress a long tradition of critical scholarship. It is a historiographical strain, says political scientist André Corten, that understands evangelicalism “as a bridgehead of American imperialism, the...
by David Swartz | Feb 6, 2019 | Opinion
On Feb. 1, 1973, U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield (R) of Oregon delivered a stinging address at the National Prayer Breakfast. With President Richard Nixon on his right, Billy Graham on his left, and Henry Kissinger and 3,000 other dignitaries in front of him in the...