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April 2014

April 29, 2014

An Interview with Philip Jenkins on The Great and Holy War

My Baylor colleague and fellow Anxious Bench blogger Philip Jenkins is Distinguished Professor of History and...

April 28, 2014

Making Saints of Two Popes

This weekend’s big event, the first-ever double papal canonization--two living popes making saints of two...

April 26, 2014

Moral Minority in Paperback

Perhaps because he practices the Christian humility encouraged by Miles Mullin this past week, our...

April 25, 2014

THE GREAT AND HOLY WAR

Not long since, I posted about my current book project on the First World War,...

April 24, 2014

Eucharistic Visionaries

Over the past several weeks, I've been exploring the role of visions in the history...

April 23, 2014

Christian Humility? In Academia?

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than...

April 22, 2014

Clemson vs. The Secularists

The football program at my beloved alma mater, Clemson University, has become the target of...

April 21, 2014

WALKING ON THE WATER

I recently posted on Jesus’s Resurrection appearance in John 21, where the disciples meet him...

April 18, 2014

MERCY – SHUT UP!

Easter is a time for sober reflection on matters of death and Resurrection, and not,...

April 17, 2014

The Passions of Perpetua and Frans van der Lugt

Jesus warned that those who wanted to be his disciples would have to take up...

April 16, 2014

Just Spirituality

The stereotypical religious conservative sees social justice, at best, as a distraction from practices of...

April 15, 2014

Churches “Pandering” to Millennials?

Over at the Juicy Ecumenism blog, my friend Mark Tooley gives some historical perspective on...

April 14, 2014

That’s So Dys-Evangelical …

 History presents many ironies.  One of them has to do with evangelicalism’s relationship to the...

April 11, 2014

MARK’S ENDING

The final chapter of John’s gospel reports the risen Christ meeting his disciples at the...

April 10, 2014

The New Prophecy

"Having assumed the form of a woman," a late second-century prophetess announced, "Christ came to...

April 09, 2014

History Surprises

Those who profess to dislike history may as well profess to dislike people.    ...

April 08, 2014

The Quaker Contribution to Religious Liberty

As I noted in a recent post for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of...

April 07, 2014

THE EMPTY TOMB

Beyond debate, the Christian church was founded on Christ’s Resurrection. What can surprise though is...

April 04, 2014

THEY GATHERED AROUND A COAL FIRE

In this coming Easter season, I will be thinking of coal fires, anthrax, and anthracite....

April 03, 2014

The Visions of John of Patmos

A man named John found himself "on the island called Patmos on account of the...

April 02, 2014

Unexpected Sites of Christian Pacifism: Pentecostal Edition

In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Attorney General of the United States...

April 01, 2014

The Art of the Book Review

Writers who publish books will soon find their books subjected to reviews. Although good book...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Embryos Unbound

April’s First Things boasts not one but two worthy articles on embryos.  I agree with...

March 29, 2014

The Urban Pulpit

Two years ago, I posted an interview with Matthew Bowman, a preview of a book...

March 28, 2014

THE CHASM OF HISTORY

When scholars look at the Bible, or any other ancient religious work, they are well...

March 27, 2014

The Brightness of the Sun

Sometime around the year 1820, the young Joseph Smith was troubled. According to the earliest...

March 26, 2014

Unintended Consequences in American Religious History

Evan Treborn has a gift.  The main character in the 2004 science-fiction film The Butterfly...

March 25, 2014

Yes, Religious Liberty is Threatened in America

Oral arguments begin today at the Supreme Court in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby, a case precipitated...

March 24, 2014

COUNTING THE WAYS

Early Christians referred to their movement as The Way, Hodos. No later than the early...

March 22, 2014

An Interview with Andrew O’Shaughnessy, Author of The Men Who Lost America

Today's guest post is an interview with Dr. Andrew O'Shaughnessy, by David Moore. Dave blogs...

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