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June 2014

June 10, 2014

Anti-Catholicism: The Defining Religious Principle of Early America?

I have been reading Owen Stanwood's excellent book The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age...

June 08, 2014

What’s Right with (Christian) Higher Education

Many things are wrong with higher education today, to be sure. But let's not overlook...

June 07, 2014

A Primer on the Southern Baptist Convention, Part 2

From the Archive In light of the upcoming annual meeting of the largest (for now) Protestant denominations taking...

June 06, 2014

THE FOUR HORSEMEN

Following on from my book The Great and Holy War, I have been working on...

June 05, 2014

The Papers of a Prophet

The Joseph Smith Papers Project website (josephsmithpapers.org) is one of the very best electronic resources...

June 04, 2014

A Primer on the Southern Baptist Convention, Part 1

From the Archive In light of the upcoming annual meeting of the largest (for now) Protestant denominations taking...

June 03, 2014

What Can Stop Southern Baptist Decline?

In anticipation of the 2014 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, the SBC's LifeWay...

June 02, 2014

TECTONIC FAITH

In my new book The Great and Holy War, I argued that the catastrophe of...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

THE BROOK KERITH

I recently published the book The Great and Holy War, about the religious and apocalyptic...

May 29, 2014

Dancing with Jesus

Anna Vetter grew up amid the poverty of the Thirty Years War. After marrying, she...

May 28, 2014

“Then I Shall Be a Wicked Child, and the Great God Will Be Very Angry with Me”

One beautiful spring afternoon four years ago, I came across a horrifying scene in my...

May 27, 2014

Fasting from Technology

In my small group at church we have been discussing the spiritual disciplines, and one...

May 26, 2014

Why is that church so ugly?

Though America’s religious history is lively and contains record of fidelity, courage, even sanctity, previous...

May 23, 2014

MASONS AND CATHOLICS

I have been posting on the pervasive influence of Freemasonry in Anglo-American culture. Usually, that...

May 22, 2014

German Pietism

Most of us who think about the history of American evangelicalism are Anglo-centric. That is,...

May 21, 2014

A Review of David Swartz’s Moral Minority

David Swartz is off this week - here is an excellent review of David's Moral Minority:...

May 20, 2014

An Interview with Steven Smith on Religious Liberty

I recently interviewed Steven D. Smith about his new Harvard University Press book, The Rise and...

May 19, 2014

WHY MASONS MATTER

Recently, John Turner did an important post on the theme of American Religion and Freemasonry....

May 16, 2014

SEEING IT THROUGH

Here’s a question. I am going to quote a passage published in 1916 by a...

May 15, 2014

American Religion and Freemasonry

Freemasonry is a tricky topic for historians of American religion, both in terms of classification...

May 14, 2014

Where the Wind Leads

For the May 1st-15th Patheos Book Club In early 1979, Hoa Chung had a dream. ...

May 13, 2014

Should Christians Date Online?

Our friend (and one of the fabulous Baylor history Ph.D. students) Paul Putz has a...

May 12, 2014

Nihilism and “The Book of Mormon”

I refer to the blockbuster musical, not the sacred book of Mormons. Recently, I took...

May 09, 2014

LIVING THROUGH A REVOLUTION

I was reading a fictional account in which a gay man asks a pastor, a...

May 08, 2014

Anniversary Penance

This will not be Patheos's best anniversary post. For starters, I just double-checked the guidelines...

May 07, 2014

Five from One: Happy Anniversary Patheos

As Tommy Kidd noted yesterday, we are in the middle of Patheos' five-year-anniversary celebration. Congratulations...

May 06, 2014

Five Year Anniversary for Patheos and the Best of My Posts

Congratulations to Patheos on its five-year anniversary! As I note in the brief video here,...

May 02, 2014

BY SCHISMS RENT ASUNDER

Over the past twenty years, I have taught an introductory World Religions survey course. Obviously,...

May 01, 2014

The Good Lord Bird

My series on visions will resume in a few weeks. In the meantime, it's worth...

April 2014

April 30, 2014

Picturing Pain

Last week several dozen scholars of religion met at the University of Southampton in the...

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