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January 2014

January 02, 2014

Year of Mercy-ing

I was struck by Jeremy Lott's year-end piece at Real Clear Religion: "The Year of...

January 01, 2014

Personality-Driven Leadership, Evangelicalism, and the NFL

The National Football League (NFL) playoffs begin this weekend. Over the next several weeks, twelve...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

New Year’s Resolution: Read More Books!

[Today's post is from my Patheos archive] Happy New Year! I have routinely resolved at...

December 30, 2013

PROPOSING BOOKS

Tommy Kidd and I have both recently posted about writing and publishing – chiefly in...

December 27, 2013

OUR BETTER ANGELS

I have been re-reading Steven Pinker’s provocative book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why...

December 26, 2013

Reforming Hollywood

Reforming Hollywood is a complex and fascinating book. "The prevailing view in histories of American...

December 25, 2013

A Martin Luther Christmas

On the afternoon of December 25, 1530, Martin Luther preached a Christmas sermon. In the...

December 24, 2013

Was Christmas in Revolutionary America a Drunken Bash?

Our modern American Christmas is an anxious affair—and not just because of "those" relatives you...

December 23, 2013

Martin Luther, Erich Honecker, and China’s Xi Jinping

Recently, the Wall Street Journal ran a piece on China’s new leader Xi Jinping’s efforts...

December 20, 2013

WRITING AND PUBLISHING HISTORY

I was hugely grateful for Tommy Kidd’s recent column on publishing in history. His post...

December 19, 2013

The Latter-day Saints and Anti-Polygamy Laws

One would think that with the half-decade "Mormon moment" now well past, Mormonism would now...

December 18, 2013

Personality-Driven Leadership in the Local Congregation

In my last post, I suggested that the evangelical embrace of personality-driven leadership forms the...

December 17, 2013

How to Publish a History Book

As we pass George Whitefield's 299th birthday this week, I am preparing to deliver the...

December 16, 2013

RIGHTEOUS ENEMIES

I just returned from a visit to Italy. Traveling in Europe can often be depressing,...

December 13, 2013

A CATALOGUE OF SECTS

I recently posted about using visual materials to tell religious history. Some of the most...

December 12, 2013

Mormons and Race

Last week, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a new, detailed statement...

December 11, 2013

International Evangelicals and Cold War Non-Alignment

In the mid-twentieth century the world underwent geopolitical reorientation. Decolonization carved the imperial-colonial divide into...

December 10, 2013

The Virtues of a Free (Christian) Press

In my time writing for WORLD magazine, one thing I have learned is that people don't like...

December 09, 2013

On Pilgrimage in Advent

On his pilgrimage to Rome in 1263 Peter, a priest from Bohemia, stopped in the...

December 08, 2013

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

Wonderful news! Some months back, I posted about the evocative early Christian remains of the...

December 06, 2013

PICTURES WITHOUT WORDS

I recently attended an outstanding conference at Gordon College on the upcoming celebration of the...

December 05, 2013

Advent Music

I love Advent hymns. My mother was always adamant that Christians had no business singing...

December 04, 2013

Plagiarism, Personality-Driven Leadership, and the Problem With Evangelicalism

Update: New developments in the Mefferd-Driscoll storyline can be found over at Warren Throckmorton's blog...

December 03, 2013

Why Homeschool?

My wife and I are not exactly fire-breathing homeschool zealots. Homeschooling is not for everybody,...

December 02, 2013

CREDULITY, SUPERSTITION, AND FANATICISM

I have posted several times on religious images in art and what they can tell...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

AMERICANS UNITED FOR WHAT?

I was thinking about how the media report religious controversies, and particularly how they decide...

November 28, 2013

Thanksgiving Edition

It's Thanksgiving. My plan was to plug my review of Tracy McKenzie's The First Thanksgiving...

November 27, 2013

Flipping the Bird: Reflections on a Thanksgiving Fraud

Americans generally view Thanksgiving as an idyllic affair. Kind Indians wearing paper feathers teaching black-and-white...

November 26, 2013

Review of R. Tracy McKenzie’s The First Thanksgiving

Over at Christianity Today, I reviewed Robert Tracy McKenzie's excellent The First Thanksgiving. Here's a sample: In 1623,...

November 25, 2013

Clergy Housing Allowances Ruled Unconstitutional

Last week came the news that, in the latest legal success for secularist advocacy groups,...

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