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November 2014

November 19, 2014

Evangelicalism and Ecclesiology: ETS 2014

Today through Friday, I am in San Diego, CA, attending the 66th Annual Meeting of...

November 18, 2014

Ben Franklin’s Calvinist Sister

In my Baylor graduate seminar on the American Revolution, we recently read Jill Lepore's marvelous Book...

November 17, 2014

The Missing Century

I am in search of a missing century. As I recently described, the second century...

November 16, 2014

Visualizing History

Access to the Internet has transformed my perception of the value of visual images to...

November 14, 2014

Revolutionary Years 2

In a very short period in the second century BC - mainly between 170 and...

November 13, 2014

Candles, Prayers, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Last weekend, Germany celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the end of the East German government's...

November 12, 2014

Unexpected Sites of Christian Pacifism: Rand Paul Edition

This post on politician Rand Paul, the latest in a series that has included Pentecostals,...

November 11, 2014

Why a Conference Paper is Usually Just a Conference Paper

[Today's guest post is from my Baylor history colleague Dr. Beth Allison Barr. You can...

November 10, 2014

Why does it hurt so much to live?

The answer is carbon. Pain is unavoidably part of the package of...

November 07, 2014

Revolutionary Years 1

In the third and second centuries BC, the Jewish world changed very rapidly, and we...

November 06, 2014

Rescue the Perishing

Gerard Russell's Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms is a remarkable book, both for its breadth and...

November 05, 2014

Race, Religion, and Teaching in Prison

The St. Louis County grand jury tasked with determining whether enough evidence exists to indict...

November 04, 2014

David Skeel’s _True Paradox: How Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex World_

I recently read Penn law professor David Skeel's remarkable apologetics book True Paradox: How Christianity Makes...

November 03, 2014

Thrones and Dominions

I have been exploring how Judaism acquired its ideas of angels as named individuals like...

October 2014

October 31, 2014

Angels from the East?

In the two or three centuries before Jesus’s time, Jews became highly interested in angels,...

October 30, 2014

The Beginning and End of Mormon Polygamy

Many observers of Mormonism have offered their thoughts on the recent statements on plural marriage...

October 29, 2014

Serendipity in the Stacks: A Case against Bookless Libraries

Several months ago Florida Polytechnic University opened a brand-new library. Its architecture, designed by Santiago...

October 28, 2014

George Whitefield: Bridging the Evangelical and Academic Gap

Today is the official publication date for my book George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father....

October 27, 2014

The Axe that Severed the Bishop’s Head

. . . also brought the Protestant Reformation to Iceland. Recently I’ve had a chance...

October 26, 2014

Of Monks, Mounds and Massacres

In my undergraduate years, I studied early and medieval Celtic history, with a heavy concentration...

October 24, 2014

Angels at the Dead Sea

My recent posts concerned angels, and specifically when and why they acquired names and individual...

October 23, 2014

America’s Spiritual Founding Father

In time for the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Whitefield (pronounced Whit-field),...

October 22, 2014

Leadership: American Style

Two men, born twenty-six years apart and moving within different circles, followed remarkably similar...

October 21, 2014

C.S. Lewis, Public Intellectual

This week's post is a review I wrote of Alister McGrath's C.S. Lewis: A Life, from...

October 20, 2014

Enoch’s Angels

At some point in Jewish history, texts began referring to angels with specific names like...

October 19, 2014

The Church Vanishes, Part Deux

I’m doing a little math, and the consequences are troubling. My own Episcopal Church USA...

October 17, 2014

Naming Angels

"In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a...

October 16, 2014

The Lost Book of Mormon

There are not very many contemporary accounts of Mormonism in which the author is expelled...

October 15, 2014

Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice (Part II)

This is Part II of an interview with Brantley Gasaway, author of a just-released book...

October 14, 2014

Does the Bible Prohibit Revolution?

My graduate students and I recently read James Byrd's terrific Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible...

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