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July 2013

July 04, 2013

History, Myth, and Genuine Religion

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

July 03, 2013

The Historian’s Vocation in the Age of Information, Part 2*

“You and your d**n cards. How do you keep track of them all?” queries...

July 02, 2013

Five Compelling Books on the American Revolution

For the Fourth of July, here are five compelling books on the American Revolution. A...

July 01, 2013

THE ANTI-GOSPEL

From earliest times, Christians have produced an abundance of alternative or pseudo-gospels, usually with a...

June 2013

June 30, 2013

THE MOCKING OF CARABBAS

There is a passage in the Alexandrian writer Philo that casts a curious light on...

June 28, 2013

FROM THE MOUTH OF THE MOST HIGH

I recently suggested that we should pay much more attention to the Deuterocanonical books that...

June 27, 2013

Two New England Women

Is history an art or a science? History is empirical and creative. We can marvel...

June 26, 2013

Richard Mouw: Not Young, Not Very Restless, Amiably Reformed

This semester marked Richard Mouw’s last as president of Fuller Theological Seminary. Described by historian...

June 25, 2013

America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released its 2013 list of the 11 "most...

June 24, 2013

Blessing upon Childbirth–Royal and Otherwise

The imminent birth of an heir—Prince William and Duchess Kate’s baby due within a few...

June 23, 2013

THE FISHY FUME, AND THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE

I recently wrote about how Deuterocanonical books like Judith, Tobit, and Maccabees dropped out of...

June 21, 2013

SAINT JOHN FISHER

Often, stories of martyrs and saints are so reworked over time that they become outrageously...

June 20, 2013

Penance in a White Sheet

While rereading Edmund Morgan's magisterial American Slavery, American Freedom, I was struck by his discussion...

June 19, 2013

The Historian’s Vocation in the Age of Information, Part 1*

Over the past two decades, the exponential advance of information-sharing and communication-oriented technology transformed and...

June 18, 2013

The NSA Controversy, the Founding Fathers, and the Fourth Amendment

My latest post for The Federalist Papers reflects on the meaning of the Fourth Amendment,...

June 17, 2013

THE OTHER OLD TESTAMENT

Throughout their history, Christians have used the Old Testament as well as the New. But...

June 16, 2013

THE GREAT BIBLES

Any history of the New Testament text makes extensive use of the magnificent fourth century...

June 14, 2013

A WOMAN’S HAND

As I recently noted, the book of Judith is not part of the Hebrew Tanakh...

June 13, 2013

A Model of Christian Charity

Nearly every semester, I have the occasion to ask at least one class of students...

June 12, 2013

The Spirit of (Personal) Development

I post today from Los Angeles, where I’m spending the week at World Vision International...

June 11, 2013

Graduate Course Readings in Early American Religion

This fall I am teaching a history graduate course at Baylor (doctoral and master's students)...

June 10, 2013

The Incombustible Martin Luther

I have just returned from Europe, where, among other things, I led a 10-day...

June 09, 2013

THE SECOND CANON

Britain during the 1960s and 1970s suffered from a Prime Minister named Harold Wilson. Once,...

June 07, 2013

DUALISTS AND PROTESTANTS

I have recently been posting about Dualist versions of Christianity, and their incredibly long-lasting influence...

June 06, 2013

A Primer on the Southern Baptist Convention, Part 2

Both a zealous commitment to congregational autonomy and a strong impulse towards cooperative ministry underlie...

June 05, 2013

A Primer on the Southern Baptist Convention, Part 1

Next week, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) will hold its annual meeting in Houston, TX. ...

June 04, 2013

You Might Be a Paleo Evangelical If…

Over at The American Conservative, my new Baylor colleague Alan Jacobs wonders if he is really...

June 03, 2013

THE SECRET SUPPER

This post concerns a book written some eight hundred years out of its proper time,...

June 02, 2013

The Politics of Faith during the Civil War

Timothy L. Wesley has just published a book called The Politics of Faith during the...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

THE HERETICS’ BIBLE

I recently posted about the enduring influence of Dualist versions of Christianity, the idea that the...

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