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February 2013

February 10, 2013

Sunday Night Odds and Ends

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

February 08, 2013

THE ANCIENT INHERITANCE

I recently suggested that studying the history of the so-called “Dark Ages” gives a wonderful...

February 07, 2013

Henrietta Mears and the History of Evangelical Women

A few months ago, our Thomas Kidd praised Catherine Brekus's just-released Sarah Osborn's World as...

February 06, 2013

The Quandary of African American Evangelicalism

Guest post from Miles S. Mullin II, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's J. Dalton Havard School for...

February 05, 2013

George Whitefield, Confessional Protestant Whipping Boy

Over at the Old Life website, our friend D.G. Hart has a piece, "Between Whitefield and...

February 04, 2013

Reading Tocqueville in Cairo

If Alexis de Tocqueville were alive today to witness the churning unrest and revolutions sweeping...

February 01, 2013

THE DARK AGES

As a Cambridge undergraduate in the 1970s, my emphasis (major) was in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Religion behind the Iron Curtain

Although one could find fuller treatments of the subject elsewhere, I was very intrigued by...

January 30, 2013

More on the History Black Evangelicalism in America

A couple of weeks ago I asked; "Where Are the Studies of Twentieth-Century Black Evangelicalism?" ...

January 29, 2013

“Look For a Building With a Cross On It”: Escaping North Korea

Melanie Kirkpatrick's disturbing yet riveting Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground...

January 28, 2013

WHY MONKS MATTER

I have recently been posting about the end of the church in Roman Britain, mainly...

January 27, 2013

Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Andrew Sullivan on blogging Fifty-four...

January 25, 2013

BRITAIN, AFRICA, AND THE END OF ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY

I have recently been discussing the destruction of the church that flourished in Roman Britain...

January 24, 2013

Anne Applebaum’s The Iron Curtain

Oftentimes the most powerful accounts of "religious history" are found in books addressing much broader...

January 23, 2013

The debate over David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies continues

From John Fea: The conservative Christian World Magazine has published a lengthy essay by Warren...

January 22, 2013

Fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade

Today marks the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which critics regard as one of the...

January 21, 2013

Are you a None? NPR on Losing our Religion

This past week NPR ran a five-day series on the “Nones,” the increasing number of...

January 18, 2013

DO LANGUAGES (AND FAITHS) VANISH WITHOUT TRACE?

I’m wrestling with a truly baffling linguistic mystery, with some far-reaching implications for Christian history....

January 17, 2013

Unsecularize the Academy?

This morning, I began reading Brad Gregory's magisterial The Unintended Reformation: How A Religious Revolution...

January 16, 2013

Where Are the Studies of Twentieth-Century Black Evangelicalism?

I am working on some revisions to an article on evangelicals and political engagement in...

January 15, 2013

Jonathan Edwards’s Scottish Connection

In his magisterial biography of Jonathan Edwards, George Marsden reminds us that there was a time,...

January 14, 2013

A LOST CHRISTIAN WORLD

I have a long-standing interest in the early church and the church of Late Antiquity...

January 13, 2013

Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Conservatives debate the meaning of...

January 11, 2013

THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN

I recently posted about the annihilation of the church in Roman Britain. Writing the history...

January 10, 2013

Jonathan Edwards on Jesus Christ

Still reading through Richard Fox's Jesus in America, I came across a reference to a...

January 09, 2013

The Evangelical Impulse Behind the Abolition of Slavery

Did you get a chance to watch The Abolitionists last night on PBS? If you...

January 08, 2013

“An Index to Books”: John Erskine and The Evangelical Disseminators

I recently read Jonathan Yeager's excellent Enlightened Evangelicalism: The Life and Thought of John Erskine (Oxford,...

January 07, 2013

Massacre of Innocents

The senseless tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut prior to Christmas continues to haunt me. We have...

January 06, 2013

WHO READS ME?

I am delighted to receive a quite unexpected endorsement for one of my books. In...

January 05, 2013

What Mormons Believe

At first glance, Mormonism is not an especially creedal religion. Brigham Young, the second president...

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