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April 2013

April 24, 2013

RELIGION OVERTHROWS HERESY

I am thinking of founding a Museum of Religiously Incorrect Art. We presently live in...

April 23, 2013

Background Checks and the Branch Davidians

In the furor over the recent situations in Boston and West, Texas, we passed quietly...

April 22, 2013

CANONS OF SCRIPTURE

I’ve noted recently how thin the lines between canonical and non-canonical scriptures were in many...

April 19, 2013

SURVIVING GOSPELS

I recently argued that, contrary to our usual assumptions, many of the old Gnostic gospels...

April 18, 2013

Faith and Marriage

Interfaith marriage is skyrocketing in contemporary America. A generation ago, around fifteen percent of Americans...

April 17, 2013

George Beverly Shea (1909-2013)

From Bev Shea's NYT obituary: Though Mr. Shea was long a vital part of Mr....

April 17, 2013

THE FIRST ENGLISH BIBLE

I have been writing about the Other texts that shaped Christian thought through the long...

April 16, 2013

Understanding the Puritans

The scholarly study of the Puritans has been marked in recent years by attempts to...

April 15, 2013

Two Popes Walk into a Bar …

A more accurate title for this blog would be “Watching the Papal Transition from Catholic...

April 14, 2013

AS THE SIBYL SANG

Whenever I teach a course on Christian history, I always use samples of music, whether...

April 12, 2013

THE MYTH OF SUPPRESSION

I posted recently about how the wide range of alternative gospels and scriptures disappeared from...

April 11, 2013

Religion and the Victory of Same-Sex Marriage

About a decade ago, the historian David Chappell wrote a thoughtful book about religion and...

April 10, 2013

SILENCE IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY

Any book on Christian history by Diarmaid MacCulloch is likely to be an important contribution....

April 09, 2013

Can North Carolina Make Christianity Its Official Religion?

North Carolina legislators recently made an ill-fated attempt to introduce Christianity as the state's official...

April 06, 2013

WHY THE LOST GOSPELS WERE NEVER LOST

In recent years, lost or hidden gospels have generated huge public interest, and every few...

April 05, 2013

POPULAR GOSPELS

I have been posting recently about the apocryphal gospels, remarking on their vast influence on...

April 04, 2013

Moral Minority

I recently reviewed David Swartz's Moral Minority for Books & Culture. Swartz is a gifted...

April 03, 2013

THE ALPHA COURSE

The British newspaper The Independent has an article by Matthew Bell on the Alpha Course,...

April 02, 2013

“Great Pillars of Human Happiness”: How Religion Frames American History

In February I spoke at Regent University's annual Reagan Symposium. This year's theme was religion...

April 01, 2013

What is “Christian History”?

Over at Religion in American History, Mark Edwards has opened a fascinating discussion about the...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

DANIEL SYNDROME

I have been writing on some quite diverse topics recently, including “faith on the borderlands,”...

March 29, 2013

EASTER STORIES

Felices Pascuas, Joyeuses Pâques, Buona Pasqua, Glad Påsk… Around the world, Christians use very similar...

March 28, 2013

St. Matthew’s Passion

The furtherance and further enrichment of the medieval Christian heritage of music and art remains...

March 26, 2013

What Does Jesus Look Like?

The History Channel's hit miniseries "The Bible" offers us yet another on-screen depiction of our...

March 25, 2013

HARROWING HELL

I have already posted on the remarkable survival of ancient apocryphal gospels through the Middle...

March 24, 2013

BETWEEN THE EMPIRES

I posted recently about the network of small states that existed between the Roman and...

March 22, 2013

The Rise of Liberal Religion

I've recently cracked open Matthew Hedstrom's recently published The Rise of Liberal Religion. Hedstrom's book...

March 21, 2013

FROM CRANMER TO WELBY

This year more than most, March 21 is a date of multiple significance in the...

March 19, 2013

With Signs Following: Baptists and the Holy Spirit

One of the perennial struggles in church life is balancing our approach to the work...

March 18, 2013

WHAT DO CHILDREN NEED? A THERAPIST OR A SHOVEL?

That children should do chores might seem so obvious as to be unworthy of mention. ...

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