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February 2014

February 11, 2014

How to Stop Fiddling Around and Start Writing

A friend recently asked me about my writing practices - in particular, how do I...

February 10, 2014

DENYING THE FAITH

I posted about the deadly Japanese persecution of Christians in the thirty years or so...

February 07, 2014

DESTROYING JAPANESE CHRISTIANITY

This year marks a singularly grim anniversary in Christian history. In 2014, it is exactly...

February 06, 2014

Why Study History

As the Civil War ground to an end in early 1865, President Abraham Lincoln delivered...

February 05, 2014

Evangelicals and Dr. King

Edward Gilbreath's Birmingham Revolution: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Epic Challenge to the Church (InterVarsity, 2013)...

February 04, 2014

So You’re Thinking of Homeschooling…

A friend and parent of preschoolers recently asked how my wife and I made the...

February 03, 2014

Hispanic America Is Our America

Good timing: January brought another round of Washington debate over immigration policy, and I found...

February 02, 2014

NINIAN AND FINNIAN

I’ve written a good deal about the centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

IMAGINING COMMUNITIES

I have been posting recently about how societies and groups construct their memories, and through...

January 30, 2014

Apostles of Unreason

Molly Worthen's Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism is a sobering...

January 29, 2014

Shattering the Illusion, Part 2

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely...

January 28, 2014

“Experts” and Evangelical Subculture

In my recent post on platforms and publishing, I noted that certain "experts" seem to...

January 27, 2014

ESTABLISHED SINCE RECENTLY

I recently posted about the construction of historical memory, and the debate over whether such...

January 25, 2014

Stephen Webb’s Mormon Christianity

I recently had the pleasure of reading Stephen Webb's Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can...

January 24, 2014

ZOMIA AND ISRAEL

James C. Scott is a distinguished scholar who works on multiple topics and diverse eras....

January 23, 2014

Evangelicals and the Death Penalty

Anthony Santoro's Exile and Embrace: Contemporary Religious Discourse on the Death Penalty features one of...

January 22, 2014

Shattering the Illusion, Part 1

When authorities in Montgomery, Alabama arrested Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her...

January 21, 2014

Howell Harris and Wales’s Great Awakening

January 23, 2014 marks the 300th birthday of the remarkable but troubled Welsh revivalist, Howell...

January 20, 2014

Rome or Death

I’ve just returned from a month of travels in Italy—Orvieto, Ravenna, Rome, Naples. (The life...

January 17, 2014

THE KOLLAM PLATES

Some years ago, in The Lost History of Christianity, I wrote about the world of...

January 16, 2014

The Power of Biography

From the Anxious Bench archives: Especially because my colleague Thomas Kidd and I both like...

January 15, 2014

William Taylor, a Global Reflex, and the Challenge to Gilded Age Methodism

In my last post I described how evangelical missionaries were often agents of cultural sensitivity....

January 14, 2014

Antebellum African Missions and the Evangelical South

I recently read Erskine Clarke's remarkable By the Rivers of Water: A Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey,...

January 13, 2014

ONIONS AND OLIVES

I recently posted on Philip K. Dick’s book The Man in the High Castle, and...

January 10, 2014

DOWN FROM THE HIGH CASTLE

As a historian of religion, I am haunted by Zippo cigarette lighters. Let me explain....

January 09, 2014

Tweeting the Bible

Is the Bible a funny book? Nearly a decade ago, I read David Maine's winsome...

January 08, 2014

An Appalachian Revivalist in Queen Victoria’s South Africa

In 1866 William Taylor, a renegade Wesleyan evangelist from the Appalachians, arrived in the south...

January 07, 2014

Of Platforms and Publishing

In my recent post on publishing, I noted that "To publish a book with an...

January 06, 2014

Waiting for the Christmas Witch

After twelve days of feasting the Christmas Witch sneaks in to slip coal or candy...

January 03, 2014

FROM ANGELS TO ARMAGEDDON

Over the past couple of years, I have been working on a book about the...

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