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December 2024

December 26, 2024

Unlock First-Class Learning: Discover BBC Sounds’ Religious Gems

Over the holiday, you might find some down time to listen to podcasts. If so,...

December 25, 2024

Bethlehem in Song and Image

Two years ago, late December 2022, I visited Bethlehem for the Christmas season. By coincidence,...

December 24, 2024

The Peace That Presidents Seek on Christmas Eve

For the past hundred years, the night before Christmas has not only been the occasion...

December 23, 2024

Festivus and the Practice of Religious Pluralism

Today is December 23: the last day to get overnight delivery for presents to arrive...

December 20, 2024

FROM THE ARCHIVES: In Every Heart There is a Womb

For my post this month, I wanted to revisit my Christmas post from last December....

December 19, 2024

Gene Wolfe, James Hogg, and Two Brilliant Gothic Novels

I have a literary discovery to report, and I think I can claim a first...

December 18, 2024

The Bible Told Them So: An Interview with Rusty Hawkins

The people who were making these arguments for colorblind individualism in the late 1960s and...

December 17, 2024

Christ as Mother and Child: Advent Reflections with Ephrem

My childhood experience of Christmas morning, like most, was marked by certain traditions. My siblings...

December 13, 2024

Writing Guadalupe as a Nahua-Christian Story

I am writing this post on December 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe,...

December 12, 2024

Why Historians Really Need to Know About NGrams

I have posted quite often here on the theme of American empire throughout history, and...

December 11, 2024

Christmas Letter to My Sons

I decided to experiment a little bit this month by writing a letter addressed to...

December 09, 2024

Christ Followers: Religion or an Ethnic Group?

Arguably the greatest benefit of being a scholar at a Christian university is the opportunity...

December 08, 2024

Our Editor’s Best Books of 2024

The past couple years I have provided a round-up of my favorite reads (see here...

December 05, 2024

Mary the Theologian

We know so little about women in history, including the Bible. And yet they are...

December 05, 2024

How Missionaries Built A Modern American Empire

Empires are a very hot issue in historical scholarship right now, and missions and missionaries...

December 03, 2024

Mary Did Know: Advent Reflections on Hrosvitha’s “The Maria”

The 1991 Christmas standard “Mary Did You Know” was an oft-repeated anthem for many of...

November 2024

November 28, 2024

How America’s Late Imperial Wars Reshaped Religion At Home

During the 1980s, Central America was the setting for brutal revolutions and civil wars that...

November 27, 2024

Jesus and John Wayne Revisited

Just weeks after the 2024 election, I discussed Kristin Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne...

November 26, 2024

Christian Anti-Liberals

A Review of Jerome E. Copulsky’s American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order (Yale University...

November 25, 2024

Sheets of Scattered Sands: A Conversation with Justin Tse

Over the past decade, an interest in the transpacific has transformed scholarship on American...

November 22, 2024

John Wayne Rides Again

*Note: This post has been slightly updated and expanded by the author for clarity. ...

November 21, 2024

How Imperial Wars Drive Modern Religious Revolutions

My current work concerns the relationship between empires and the making and development of religion....

November 19, 2024

Mothers of the Church: Egeria

In my first semester of grad school, I took a Latin reading seminar. Surprisingly, we...

November 16, 2024

The Risk of Social Media Engagement for Historians

This column is adapted from my introductory remarks on "The Risk of Social Media Engagement...

November 15, 2024

An Election of Silences: A Reflection

I don’t teach on Tuesdays, so when I called to schedule two long-overdue medical appointments...

November 14, 2024

Informal Empire and the Making of American Religion

My current work involves the critical role of empires in making and reshaping the world’s...

November 13, 2024

Gustavo Gutiérrez: Another Hopeful Reflection

Just a few months ago the German theologian Jürgen Moltmann died, and I decided to...

November 12, 2024

A Most Controversial Marriage

This is an edited version of an essay I wrote that helped form what would...

November 09, 2024

What Is the Anxious Bench: A Note from Our Editor

People have expressed abundant feelings and analyses over the last week on the interwebs, as...

November 07, 2024

Faith And Reconciliation After A Horribly Bitter Election

Did you hear about the election they just had in the US? It actually got...

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