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November 2013

November 22, 2013

THE SIGN OF JONAH

For many Christians, Biblical literalism is a fraught subject. My own theory is that one...

November 21, 2013

Mormon Handcart Pioneers

One of the most poignant times in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ...

November 20, 2013

Blue Crabs and Evangelicals – Part 2

Aside from getting to feast on some great crab cakes and see a beautifully crafted...

November 19, 2013

“A New Birth of Freedom”: The Gettysburg Address

November 19, 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, his most famous speech...

November 18, 2013

BEYOND CONFLICTS

Very shortly, I will be receiving a real honor, but also one that comes with...

November 17, 2013

THE EVANGELICAL MELTING POT

Journalist Mira Kamdar had a lovely story in a recent New York Times about the...

November 15, 2013

RESTORING PRIMITIVE TRUTH

For many years I taught a course on Sects, Cults and New Religious Movements. Scholars...

November 14, 2013

The Secularization of Christian Holidays

The Christmas season starts early in Germany as well. Some stores have had their displays...

November 13, 2013

The Cold War Origins of World Vision

World Vision, known best for its child sponsorship programs, has become the largest and most...

November 12, 2013

The Supreme Court and Deity-Specific Prayers

Last week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Town of Greece v. Galloway, a case...

November 11, 2013

When death comes before life

Martin Luther, mindful of the trials and blessings of family life, offered balm to women...

November 10, 2013

WARS OF RELIGION?

What are religious wars really about? I’ve been posting recently about the relationship between war...

November 08, 2013

REFORMATIONS THEN AND NOW

I have been thinking recently about parallels between the Reformation and the rise of contemporary...

November 07, 2013

The Book of Mormon in 15 (or so) Days

I'm re-posting the below, which originally appeared in two separate segments at Religion in American...

November 06, 2013

The Expansion of Evangelicalism

This past week, I re-familiarized myself with John Wolffe's The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of...

November 05, 2013

Why I Am Still a Baptist

A reader recently asked me why, given my knowledge of and interest in church history,...

November 04, 2013

WAR AND GOD’S KINGDOM

Wars often change and reshape religions. I have posted recently, for instance, on how the...

November 03, 2013

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS

I posted recently about how wars shape religious change. Depending on the particular circumstances, wartime...

November 01, 2013

FAITH AT WAR

I have been thinking how warfare drives religious change. This arises partly from preparing the...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

Evangelical-Mormon “Detente”?

Adelle Banks of Religion News Service has a fascinating piece on signs of a possible...

October 30, 2013

Mixing the Market and the Common Good: Complicating the Individualist-Structuralist Binary

In recent years scholars have accentuated the individualistic impulse within conservative evangelicalism. Evangelicals, Christian Smith...

October 29, 2013

“Psychedelic Christians”: The Legacy of the Jesus People

I recently had the pleasure of reading Larry Eskridge's remarkable God's Forever Family: The Jesus People...

October 28, 2013

Virtue and Vice and Everything …

One of the heartening things about our times has been the recovery, at least in...

October 25, 2013

ON FEEDING THE TROLLS

Today’s blog is about blogging. If you blog on religious topics, you know that there...

October 24, 2013

Luther and the Word of God

Martin Luther did not want to preach in Wittenberg's city church. The year was --...

October 23, 2013

Blue Crabs and Evangelicals – Part 1

Next month, the sixty-fifth meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) will convene in Baltimore, Maryland....

October 22, 2013

Interpreting Demonic Possession

My graduate course recently read Brian Levack's The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian...

October 21, 2013

THE VERY PLACE WHERE IT HAPPENED

I recently described the powerful medieval theme of rooting the events of the New Testament...

October 18, 2013

THE BIBLE’S DEEP HISTORY

I have been spending a lot of time recently with the apocryphal texts of the...

October 17, 2013

The Issue of our Day

This week I read a news article that broke my heart and called me to...

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