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November 2024

November 06, 2024

Lord, Give Us A King to Lead Us

Note: These are my thoughts and mine alone. This is also raw, as I’m sure...

November 05, 2024

“For Our Daughters”: Women’s & Gender Studies and Higher Ed

I'm pleased to be able to welcome Dr. Katherine Goodwin Lindgren back to the Anxious...

November 04, 2024

Prayers for Election Day

Well, it’s the day before. I have no useful historical analysis today, nor any punditry...

November 03, 2024

Get Out the Vote: Participate in the Democratic Process

You cannot unsee what you have seen this past year. I don’t even really have...

November 01, 2024

Mourning a Victim by Learning (Analysis) from His Legacy

Today we welcome to the Anxious Bench Anne Perez. Dr. Anne Perez is author of Understanding...

October 2024

October 31, 2024

The Man Who Invented Folk Horror

The category of folk horror was first identified in the 1970s, and in recent years...

October 30, 2024

Why Blog About the History and Theology of Gender and Race?

I often blog about gender history and theology for the Anxious Bench. I also blog...

October 29, 2024

DEI at the University of Michigan: What Went Right?

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at the University of Michigan are a “failure”—at least...

October 29, 2024

Abortion and Prohibition: Will This Election Be Like 1932?

This year’s treatment of abortion by both major parties is reminiscent of how both parties...

October 26, 2024

Who to Vote For: Toward a Christian Political Theology

Got a short one for you all. A few months ago, I was one of...

October 25, 2024

Piss Christ, the Olympics, and Authorial Intent

This post is a tribute to the life and teaching of Kristen Todd, PhD, the...

October 24, 2024

Cartoons, Caricatures, and Missionary Imperialism

In pretty much any period I write about, I try to use cartoons and caricatures...

October 23, 2024

My Friend the Enemy: Bill Pannell and the White Evangelical

In 2021, a year after the killing of George Floyd, Pannell felt compelled to republish...

October 22, 2024

Is Basil Wrong? On Teaching Historical Theology

Basil of Caesarea is often praised as a champion of the Holy Spirit, defending his...

October 21, 2024

The real ghouls? The Evangelical Voter

Good society is generally certain there is something wrong with the mentality of evangelicals. We're...

October 18, 2024

Forging Franciscan History: Nahuas, Games & Devotional Texts

Should those of us who work on religious history, particularly Christian texts from the past,...

October 17, 2024

How a Mediterranean Spiritual Movement Went Global

This column represents a contribution to Hispanic Heritage Month, and before anyone mentions it, I...

October 15, 2024

Indigenous Intellectuals and their Writings, Reconsidered

Preface I am currently in the third year of my PhD program in history, which...

October 14, 2024

America’s Other Universities

As anti-Israel protests convulsed American campuses in the spring semester—reappearing this fall—one might be forgiven,...

October 11, 2024

Is Decline Real?

Nothing sets me off in the classroom like discovering the students’ textbooks have referred to...

October 10, 2024

How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories

We have a guest post today. Bethany Mannon is Assistant Professor of English at Appalachian...

October 09, 2024

You Want It Darker: Leonard Cohen and October 7, 2023

We decided to put our two sons in swimming lessons last Fall. The boys always...

October 08, 2024

Mothers, Children and the Body Politic: Pursuing Flourishing

Today’s post is about former Anxious Bench Contributor Nadya Williams’ new book with IVP, Mothers,...

October 07, 2024

Still Scandalized: Another Noll Review

I have been writing and thinking a lot about evangelicalism, the myth of evangelical consensus,...

October 03, 2024

The River Empires of #VastEarlyAmerica

My present research involves the relationship between religion and American empire. Recently, I have been...

October 01, 2024

The problem with JD Vance

Tomorrow night, Tim Walz will debate JD Vance, fresh off his Saturday appearance in Pennsylvania....

September 2024

September 26, 2024

The Faiths of #VastEarlyAmerica

As I outlined in my last post, contemporary scholarship on early America stresses its “vast”...

September 25, 2024

Women and Gender at the Conference on Faith and History

One of my favorite academic societies, the Conference on Faith and History, holds its biennial...

September 24, 2024

Christian Third Parties

When Pope Francis observed recently that both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are “against life,”...

September 24, 2024

Asian American Religious Voters: Three Basic Things To Know

Back in 2020, I met a local politician who asked for my advice about how...

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