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March 2014

March 21, 2014

THE WAY TO TRANSLATE

For some years now, I have found it hard to read the New Testament in...

March 20, 2014

Visions in the Hebrew Scriptures

Beginning today, I'm starting a weekly series on visions. My immediate interest in the question...

March 19, 2014

The Strange Case of Two Stony Brook School Classmates

Several weeks ago I settled down to my usual Sunday afternoon reading of the New...

March 18, 2014

George Marsden and the Gift of Clear Writing

Over at The Gospel Coalition, I recently reviewed The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s...

March 17, 2014

Lenten Confessions: The App

It was bound to happen.  As apps proliferate for all kinds of purposes, it was...

March 16, 2014

EUROPE AND AFRICA

Largely through the missionary efforts of the day, early modern Europeans had quite extensive awareness...

March 14, 2014

A WIDER WORLD

I have been posting about how contemporary visual materials can be used to reflect the...

March 13, 2014

The End of Religious Freedom?

What is religious freedom? Is it the freedom to worship or otherwise interact with God,...

March 12, 2014

Religious Marketplace, Religious Fragmentation

I am a big fan of religious disestablishment.  I appreciate the tireless advocacy (and agitation)...

March 11, 2014

“Ask Jesus into Your Heart”: A History of the Sinner’s Prayer

[This week's post comes from my Patheos archives.] Many an evangelical pastor has concluded a...

March 10, 2014

PAINTING FRANCIS XAVIER

I posted about the art of mission, the ways in which Euro-American Christians visualized the...

March 07, 2014

THE ART OF MISSION

Visual art can be a terrific source for the history of religion, and that is...

March 06, 2014

American Pseudobibles (and the Book of Mormon)

Americans during the Revolutionary era and the Early Republic lived in a world suffused with...

March 05, 2014

Unexpected Sites of Christian Pacifism: Holiness Edition

Jay Beaman, a sociologist at Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon, likes to do historical...

March 04, 2014

Tocqueville’s Uncanny Vision

Last week I had the privilege of leading my History of American Thought class at...

March 03, 2014

Thoughts on That Last Thin Mint

This week closes Girl Scout cookie season in Massachusetts.  (There are people out there who...

March 02, 2014

WELSH AMERICA, AMERICAN WALES

I recently posted about the sizable and often under-appreciated presence of Welsh people in America....

February 2014

February 28, 2014

WELSH ROOTS

March 1 marks St. David’s Day, the great national celebration for Welsh people throughout the...

February 27, 2014

Birmingham Revolution

For the February 2014 Patheos Book Club With the publication of Birmingham Revolutionon the occasion...

February 26, 2014

The Anabaptist Judith

Things were not going well in Münster (in present-day northwestern Germany) as of June 1534....

February 25, 2014

What to Publish, and When?

In response to one of my recent newsletters, a friend and former student asked, from...

February 24, 2014

TERROR AND MASSACRE BEGAN

I have been writing recently about the methods by which a government really can destroy...

February 21, 2014

A PERIPHERAL VISION

In Catholic intellectual circles right now, the peripheral has become quite central. Since his term...

February 20, 2014

What’s in a Name?

At first glance, books about religious magazines should not be especially interesting, yet I find...

February 19, 2014

Simple Living Pontiff Style

It’s easy to love Pope Francis. In one of his first acts as pope, he...

February 18, 2014

Recovering Lemuel Haynes: Patriot Hero, African American Pastor

When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, the implications of "all men are created...

February 16, 2014

Should I Send my (Christian) Child to a (Secular) State University?

No.  In an ideal world, you should send him or her to Gordon College.  Its...

February 14, 2014

HIDDEN CHRISTIANS

I have been describing the Japanese campaign against Christianity, which peaked in the early seventeenth...

February 13, 2014

American Presbyterians and Israel

Even some seventy years after the Second World War, when one is in Germany one...

February 12, 2014

Campus Ministry in America: The Australian Connection

As the mid-twentieth century American evangelical renaissance bloomed, a whole host of evangelical ministries intent...

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