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October 2014

October 13, 2014

Going to Church with Henry Adams

“Everyone’s on a walk to Chartres,” New York Times columnist David Brooks observed in...

October 12, 2014

Of Scriptures and Superheroes

I have a long-standing interest in apocryphal and non-canonical Christian writings. Many of these texts...

October 10, 2014

Restoring the Kingdom

When the Risen Jesus appears to the apostles, they have a vital question for him:...

October 09, 2014

The Elders of Israel

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints holds semiannual general conferences, with twenty thousand...

October 08, 2014

Good Advice for those who are ABD

"It's the good advice that you just didn't take." -Alanis Morissette, "Ironic," Jagged Little Pill...

October 07, 2014

Those Suspicious Medical Missionaries

"It’s great that these people are doing God’s work, but do they have to talk...

October 06, 2014

Gods on Earth

I posted recently on the Greek empires that arose in the centuries following Alexander the...

October 05, 2014

Naming Palestine

I post frequently on matters of Biblical history, and on occasion I naturally have to...

October 03, 2014

In Many Tongues

Over the past year, I have been making heavy use of a magnificent scholarly resource...

October 02, 2014

Inventing Eden

Zachary Hutchins's Inventing Eden is a remarkable book. As its subtitle explains, Hutchins examines "primitivism,...

October 01, 2014

Progressive Evangelicals and the Pursuit of Social Justice

I’m delighted to bring you an interview with Brantley Gasaway, who teaches in the religious...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Advice for the Dismal Academic Job Market

Over at Slate, Rebecca Schuman imagines an awkward scenario from a family gathering, which includes a newly-minted...

September 29, 2014

From Oxford to Malibu

Apologies in advance, for this is going to be a short post. I have been...

September 26, 2014

Peregrinus and Part-Time Christians

Around the 160s, the Greek satirist Lucian posted on the life and times of one...

September 24, 2014

How the Federal Council of Churches influenced The Sunday School Times

After twenty-one years of marriage, my wife and I know each other pretty well. We...

September 23, 2014

Graduate Course on the American Revolution

This semester I am teaching a graduate seminar on the American Revolutionary Era. As I...

September 22, 2014

Corinthians and Communists

I posted recently on Friedrich Engels’s On the History of Early Christianity, his 1890s text...

September 19, 2014

Christians and Communists

There is an odd but very useful source on early Christianity that remains strangely unfamiliar...

September 18, 2014

Brigham Young’s Favorite Hymn

On April 8, 1877, Brigham Young delivered a sermon on the occasion of his imminent...

September 17, 2014

From “I, Pencil” to “I, Smartphone”: The Moral Limits of the Market

I'm pleased to feature a guest post by my friend and colleague Kevin Brown, an...

September 16, 2014

The New Birth: A Uniquely American Concept?

Last week at CNN.com, progressive Christian author Matthew Paul Turner wrote a piece about the...

September 15, 2014

Big History. Too Big.

Well into the early modern period, some histories of the world written by Europeans started...

September 12, 2014

Becoming Mary

In a recent post, I looked at the mysterious figure of the “Woman clothed with...

September 11, 2014

The Best Evangelicals on Campus

The recent de-recognition of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship by the massive California State University system is...

September 10, 2014

Re-envisioning Our Public: The Conference on Faith and History 2014

For decades, committed evangelicals such as Richard Pierard, Robert Linder, George Marsden, Mark Noll, Nathan...

September 09, 2014

How to Survive Graduate School

As a new semester begins, it is a good time to reflect on the practices...

September 08, 2014

The Woman Clothed With The Sun

I recently posted on changing ideas about the Virgin Mary's role in the New Testament,...

September 05, 2014

The War That Never Was

This is nothing like a standard Anxious Bench post, but it does get to some...

September 04, 2014

Pioneer Prophet in Paperback

My co-blogger Thomas Kidd mentioned in his most recent post that he has learned "how...

September 03, 2014

Unexpected Sites of Christian Pacifism: Charles Spurgeon Edition

Charles Spurgeon, a Reformed Baptist known as the “prince of preachers” in the nineteenth century,...

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