William Inboden
William Inboden (Ph.D.) is the executive vice president and provost of The University of Texas at Austin . He has previously served in the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. He has authored numerous books, including the award-winning The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink. He is also the author of Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment (Cambridge University Press).
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Ben Sasse & Will Inboden: How to Face Radical Politics, an Uncertain Future, and Terminal Cancer
Ben Sasse and William Inboden join Michael Horton to discuss why Christians might not want to spend their time and energy trying to burn down the current political order online.
“Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt” by Christine Heyrman
The Bancroft Prize, commonly regarded as the most prestigious award for scholarship on American history, took the unusual step last April of honoring a book focusing on America’s religious past. Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, by University of Delaware historian Christine Heyrman, explores how Evangelicalism emerged as the dominant religious faith in […]
“Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There” by David Brooks
“Throw an egg from a Pullman,” newspaper columnist and social critic H. L. Mencken famously noted in the 1920s, “and you’re bound to hit a fundamentalist.” Were David Brooks to update Mencken’s observation for today, it might go something like “Toss a double mocha latte from an SUV, and you’re bound to hit a Bobo.” […]
“Richard Sibbes: Puritianism and Calvinism in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England” by Mark Dever
Texas politician Jim Hightower famously dismissed moderates with the crack that “the only things in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and dead armadillos.” Texas highways notwith-standing, the English Puritan Richard Sibbes was a moderate in every best sense of the word. Sibbes’s moderation enabled him to pursue a fruitful gospel ministry amidst […]
“One Cheer”for Civil Religion?
The pastor of my local church caused no small stir several years ago when he removed the American flag from its perch just behind the pulpit. Indeed, he removed it from the sanctuary entirely. As you might imagine, this provoked some consternation among at least a few members, who no doubt wondered if this brash […]
