# The Protestant Mind

> A newsletter about Protestantism. A project of First Things and the Templeton Foundation

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## Posts
- [The Demonic and the Political](https://protestantmind.com/p/the-demonic-and-the-political): From Walter Wink's impersonal "powers" to C. Peter Wagner's territorial spirits, three theologians shaped how Protestants talk about spiritual warfare.
- [Why 9/11 Made It Okay to Hate Evangelicals](https://protestantmind.com/p/why-9-11-made-it-okay-to-hate-evangelicals): Cultured despisers of evangelicalism are the children of the very evangelical world they criticize.
- [Christian Zionism: Embattled But Still Vital](https://protestantmind.com/p/christian-zionism-embattled-but-still-vital): Dispensationalism is fading, but covenantal and natural-law Zionism are picking up the slack. A look inside the networks and theology behind the movement.
- [The Passing of Postliberal Protestantism](https://protestantmind.com/p/the-passing-of-postliberal-protestantism): The last major voices of postliberal Protestantism are in their eighties, and nothing is replacing them.
- [The Great Seminary Sorting](https://protestantmind.com/p/the-great-seminary-sorting): Mainline seminaries are vanishing. Non-conformist ones are booming. What a generational, ecclesial, and educational shift reveals.
- [Asbury Seminary and the UMC’s Unmasking](https://protestantmind.com/p/asbury-seminary-and-the-umc-s-unmasking): The UMC’s decision to drop Asbury Seminary is the culmination of big-tent Methodism’s slow death.
- [Protestants and the Unborn](https://protestantmind.com/p/protestants-and-the-unborn): For Life Month, a look at the history of Protestants and abortion. 
- [Women Ministers and the Evangelical Future](https://protestantmind.com/p/women-ministers-and-the-evangelical-future): The battle over women in ministry is driven by the tensions in evangelicalism, not a slide into liberal theology.
- [Rededicate 250 and Split-Screen Protestantism](https://protestantmind.com/p/rededicate-250-and-split-screen-protestantism): As part of the America 250 celebrations, Christian leaders came together to rededicate the country to Christ. Who showed up on stage (and who didn't) provides an interesting look at the state of American Protestantism.
- [Protestants’ New (?) Love of Natural Law](https://protestantmind.com/p/protestants-new-love-of-natural-law): In some Protestant circles, natural law arguments have been seen as incompatible with man's sinful nature. Some are starting to rethink that position.
- [The Many Views of Christian America](https://protestantmind.com/p/the-many-views-of-christian-america): Labeling evangelical engagement with American identity as “Christian nationalism” flattens a complex, long-running debate about Christianity‘s role in the public square.
- [Protestant Prosperity Politics](https://protestantmind.com/p/protestant-prosperity-politics): Trump’s portrayal of himself as the messiah is downstream of the Seven Mountain Mandate.
- [James Talarico and Progressive Protestantism ](https://protestantmind.com/p/james-talarico-and-progressive-protestantism): The Texas Democratic Senate nominee has made some eye-popping claims about the Christian faith he professes. What kind of formation could have led him to such conclusions? 
- [Pluralism in Context](https://protestantmind.com/p/pluralism-in-context): Yesterday's groundbreaking "Judeo-Christian" conception of American values is today's Christian nationalism. 
- [Revival? Yes. Awakening? Not yet.](https://protestantmind.com/p/revival-yes-awakening-not-yet): Breaking down the signs of revival in America.
- [The Once and Future Movement](https://protestantmind.com/p/the-once-and-future-movement): Protestantism is a continual reformation.

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- [Dale Coulter](https://protestantmind.com/authors/dale-coulter)