Jonathan Merritt
Blog Posts by Jonathan Merritt
Posted by Jonathan Merritt 27 weeks 20 hours ago
In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, we learned that President Barack Obama would remain the leader of the free world. But his victory came at a price. He and Governor Mitt Romney now have the...
Posted by Jonathan Merritt 34 weeks 3 days ago
Mitt Romney has an evangelical problem. Or so we’ve been told by everyone from The New Yorker to The Huffington Post to The Daily Beast. The national media have perpetuated this narrative...
Posted by Jonathan Merritt 42 weeks 5 days ago
So, I kicked the hornets' nest with my recent piece in The Atlantic, "In Defense of Eating at Chick-fil-A." The comments were brutal, with most excoriating the chicken chain and rejecting my argument...
Posted by Jonathan Merritt 48 weeks 4 days ago
When Romney delivered his “Faith in America” speech in 2007, the Southern Baptist response was to label Mormonism a “theological cult” and “false religion.”What's surprising in 2012 is the relative...
Posted by Jonathan Merritt 1 year 1 week ago
Three decades ago, the evangelical faithful was galvanized by public debates over abortion, the size of the federal government, the future of the traditional family, and religious liberty. Many...
