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March 2013

March 17, 2013

FAITH ON THE FRONTIER

Some day, I would love to write a history on religion on the frontiers, and...

March 15, 2013

REDISCOVERING PATRICK

This weekend, many millions of people around the world will commemorate St. Patrick as a...

March 14, 2013

American Evangelicals’ Global Vision Began in Korea

Guest Post by Miles S. Mullin, II, J. Dalton Havard School for Theological Studies, Southwestern Seminary...

March 13, 2013

THE EMPIRE IN THE MIRROR

Whether or not we like the fact, the fate of great religions is often shaped...

March 12, 2013

C.J. Mahaney Steps Down as President of Sovereign Grace Ministries

The past couple years years have seen a great deal of criticism and allegations about...

March 11, 2013

TURFAN AND THE CHRISTIANS OF THE SILK ROUTE

Some years ago, I published The Lost History of Christianity, which traced the early expansion...

March 10, 2013

ILLTUD AND THE END OF A WORLD

This column is about one of the truly great Christians of Late Antiquity, but someone...

March 08, 2013

HOW MANY GOSPELS?

In a post last year, I remarked how definitions of the Biblical canon had changed...

March 07, 2013

All Music Is in Heaven

Early Mormons, like Latter-day Saints today, often attracted notice for their love of music, dancing,...

March 06, 2013

MOCKING THE MONKS

For much of human history, it is exceedingly difficult to hear the voices of ordinary...

March 05, 2013

C.S. Lewis, Public Intellectual

Alister McGrath's C.S. Lewis: A Life comes with endorsements from Eric Metaxas, Timothy Keller, N.T. Wright,...

March 04, 2013

The Agony of Papal Exits

“How heavy the papal mantle weighs,” wrote Dante in his Divine Comedy. The shepherding of...

March 03, 2013

DYING QUIETLY

Whenever I teach Christian history, I feel a strong obligation to discuss the methodology of...

March 01, 2013

THAT’LL BE THE DAY THAT I DIE

March 1 is the feast of David, the early medieval bishop and missionary who became...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

The Mormon Jesus and the Garden of Eden

As a corollary to my current interest in the Latter-day Saint understanding of Jesus, I've...

February 27, 2013

David Barton, Louis L’Amour, and the Use of Historical Evidence

NOTE: A shorter version of this post appeared yesterday at The Way of Improvement Leads...

February 26, 2013

Calvinist Controversy at Louisiana College

The latest front in the Baptist battle over Calvinism and Arminianism has opened at Louisiana...

February 25, 2013

THE PRIEST IN THE TEMPLE

Attending a church service can be a sobering experience, and not necessarily for anything said...

February 24, 2013

Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Luther Spoehr reviews Robert Sullivan,...

February 22, 2013

OUT OF EGYPT

Material objects can evoke distant periods of history far more powerfully than even the greatest...

February 21, 2013

The Power of Good Biography

Especially because my colleague Thomas Kidd and I both like the genre of biography, we've...

February 20, 2013

The United States: Christian or “Secular?”

Those who of you who thought I had gone off the deep end with last...

February 19, 2013

Homeschooling: A Fundamental Human Right?

A remarkable political asylum case has raised questions about whether the U.S. government should defend...

February 18, 2013

Redefining Parenthood?

This week The New York Times noted a new landmark in the transformation of parenthood. ...

February 15, 2013

LENT AND FASTING

We have just entered the season of Lent. Thinking about the history of this time...

February 14, 2013

Nat Turner’s Bible

A few months ago, I went to Harper's Ferry with my wife and daughter. It's...

February 13, 2013

Some Thoughts on Dr. Ben Carson’s Prayer Breakfast Speech

Political conservatives are singing the praises of Dr. Ben Carson's speech last week at the...

February 12, 2013

The Puritans: Neither Democratic nor American?

As I discussed in my post "Puritans: The Original Republicans?", few historians today remain interested...

February 11, 2013

THE FIRST GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY

Through the years, I have written a good deal about the globalization of Christianity in...

February 10, 2013

Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Sean Wilentz reviews Oliver Stone...

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