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August 2013

August 08, 2013

What’s Present is Prologue to the Past

Jennifer Schuessler at the New York Times introduces cutting-edge historical scholarship to the masses. Last...

August 06, 2013

Do Christian Kids Need Christian Education?

This week's post comes from the Anxious Bench archives. It is part of the new Patheos...

August 04, 2013

HERACLEON

Here's a trivia question. Who wrote the first ever commentary on a piece of Christian...

August 04, 2013

Human Dignity and the Image of God

The years after World War II witnessed much discussion about and reflection on the idea...

August 02, 2013

VALENTINUS THE EGYPTIAN

Early Egyptian Christianity had a strong non-orthodox strand, if that “Gnostic” current did not actually...

August 01, 2013

End Hymnal Wars

Never agree to serve on a hymnal committee. First of all, if your church (like...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

The Religion of the 1950s

In American memory, the 1950s are often portrayed as a mundane, picturesque prelude to the chaotic,...

July 30, 2013

Bible Wars and the Origins of the Term “Inerrancy”

Over at The Gospel Coalition, Andrew Wilson recently wrote a piece called "Why I Don't...

July 29, 2013

BASILIDES AND THE BAPTISM

I was discussing the theory that the oldest level of Egypt’s Christianity was very different...

July 28, 2013

THE EGYPTIAN MYSTERY

I recently described the extraordinary position that Egypt held in early Christian history, when the...

July 26, 2013

EGYPT’S FAITH

It’s grim to watch recent developments in Egypt, as the nation’s Coptic Christians face growing...

July 25, 2013

Cold, Tired, and Single in Zion

One of my favorite things about spending several summers in Utah was enjoying an extra...

July 24, 2013

How to Roast a Saint

As the retirement gala for Ron Sider, the founder and president of Evangelicals for Social...

July 23, 2013

The Strange Career of the Antimission Baptists

I recently wrote about "Calvinism and the Roots of the Missionary Movement," in which I...

July 22, 2013

Whither Luther?

Hilary Sherratt, an alumnae of Gordon College and a guest blogger for this post, was...

July 21, 2013

THE ICON OF THE MAGDALENE

Grace Cathedral in San Francisco is one of my favorite religious structures in the US,...

July 19, 2013

APPROVING REVELATION

I have been writing about changing concepts of the Biblical canon, my point being that...

July 18, 2013

The Jesus Movement

It's hard not to like the Jesus Movement, but until recently, there wasn't a good...

July 16, 2013

The Long History of the Religious Right

Ever since so many of them embraced the Reagan Revolution during the 1980 election cycle,...

July 16, 2013

The Historical Genius of Edmund Morgan

Last week we lost one of the titans of American history writing, Yale's Edmund Morgan....

July 15, 2013

CORRECTIONS AND ERRORS

In a recent post on the Synod of Diamper (1599), I described how European Catholics...

July 14, 2013

JAMES THE GREAT

I want to share an enthusiasm. I’d also like to point to some very useful...

July 12, 2013

DIAMPER: UPROOTING THE ANCIENT CHURCH

Through the Middle Ages, European churches made enthusiastic use of apocryphal scriptures, but matters changed...

July 11, 2013

Evangelical Philosophers in the Chronicle

I don't think of the Chronicle of Higher Education as an especially hospitable venue for...

July 10, 2013

Ron Sider: Pioneer of the Evangelical Left

One of the fascinating—and sometimes disconcerting—things about researching recent history is that my historical characters...

July 09, 2013

Calvinism and the Roots of the Missionary Movement

Over at Kevin DeYoung's blog, Jason Helopoulos asks "Does Calvinism Kill Missions?" and answers with a resounding...

July 08, 2013

July 4, July 14, and the Religious Question

If you have French friends, thank them for their nation’s help during our revolution...

July 07, 2013

THE SLAVONIC SCRIPTURES

Over at realclearreligion, I have a new column on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and particularly...

July 05, 2013

ABOLISHING THE LEGEND

In a number of recent posts, I have argued that long after the time of...

July 04, 2013

History, Myth, and Genuine Religion

For centuries, European Christians (and their American descendants) mostly categorized religious systems according to their...

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