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July 2014

July 20, 2014

CONSTRUCTING A CATHOLIC CRISIS

Jason Berry is a journalist who works on Catholic issues and clergy sexual abuse. He...

July 18, 2014

STICKING UP FOR JEWS?

Over the past few years, we Anxious Bench bloggers have dealt with many and sundry...

July 17, 2014

Phony Wars

Reform or perish. Cultural and ideological liberals have given such advice to conservative churches for...

July 16, 2014

African American Texas History in Houston

The best research projects are ones that can reasonably be accomplished. Since I enjoy archival...

July 15, 2014

Five Great Books on Evangelical Christianity

My recent post "'Evangelicals' Who Are Not Evangelicals" generated quite a discussion about who's in,...

July 14, 2014

THE BREAKING OF IMAGES

In a recent Times Literary Supplement, David Motadel reviewed James Noyes’s 2013 book The Politics...

July 13, 2014

THE FLIGHT OF THE DINGBATS

Robert Spencer just published an extraordinarily inaccurate piece about my work. I would not normally...

July 11, 2014

BUCHAN’S POWER HOUSE

I have been posting on some books that appeared during the First World War –...

July 09, 2014

Spirits Eat Ripe Papaya

It’s beach-reading season—and I have a can’t-miss recommendation. Spirits Eat Ripe Papaya, the debut novel...

July 08, 2014

The “Evangelicals” Who Are Not Evangelicals

At the Wall Street Journal, Barton Swaim recently reviewed Steven Miller's excellent book The Age of Evangelicalism,...

July 07, 2014

Penn Prof: Religious Colleges Should Not Be Accredited

University of Pennsylvania professor Peter Conn says at the Chronicle of Higher Education that religious...

July 06, 2014

FREEMASONRY AND BLACK HISTORY

I have been posting a lot recently on the very diverse impact of Freemasonry on...

July 04, 2014

THE GHOSTS OF WARS TO COME

As we commemorate the First World War in coming months, we are going to hear...

July 03, 2014

Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter, Part 2

Beginning in the 1970s, evangelical voters significantly influenced electoral outcomes. Throughout the 1980s, they emerged...

July 02, 2014

Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter, Part 1

When Marge Simpson forgets to pay for a bottle of rum at the Qwik-E-Mart, she...

July 01, 2014

“A Decision of Startling Breadth”? Reflections on Hobby Lobby

This week's Hobby Lobby decision from the Supreme Court brings good news and bad news....

June 2014

June 30, 2014

CULT ALTERNATIVES

I recently asked “Where have all the cultists gone?” – that is, why do we...

June 27, 2014

WHERE HAVE ALL THE CULTISTS GONE?

One of the most enjoyable academic conferences on religious studies is CESNUR, the Center for...

June 26, 2014

Fully Divine, Fully Human Word of God

When Christianity Today editor Harold Lindsell identified a Battle for the Bible in 1976, he...

June 25, 2014

Black religion and Vietnam

On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. preached at Riverside Church in New York...

June 24, 2014

Runaway Slave Ads and the Violence of Slavery

In research for my colonial America book, I recently came across a runaway slave ad...

June 23, 2014

Looking for a Good Hermit

The Swiss city of Solothurn is advertising for a hermit. The location is a handsome,...

June 20, 2014

MASONS AND MUSLIMS

I have recently been posting on the astonishingly widespread influence of Freemasonry both in Anglo-American...

June 19, 2014

Have Visions Ceased?

In his published account of his first visionary experience, Joseph Smith reported that a Methodist...

June 18, 2014

Five American Religious History Books Every Evangelical Minister Should Read

Traditionally, summer is the time for reading lists. In honor of that tradition, I present...

June 17, 2014

Phillis Wheatley and the Evangelical Anti-Slavery Movement

When the evangelical poet Phillis Wheatley published an pamphlet-length elegy on George Whitefield upon the...

June 16, 2014

FREEMASONS AND THE NEW AGE

I posted recently on the importance of Freemasons in Anglo-American history – political, cultural and...

June 13, 2014

MACHEN’S TERROR

I recently published the book The Great and Holy War, about the supernatural dimensions of...

June 12, 2014

Evangelicals Not Welcome

It's been a long time since most public and private universities and colleges in the...

June 11, 2014

Slow Church: A Report from the Trenches

As an admirer of the Englewood Review of Books, I have been anticipating the release...

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