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November 2012

November 30, 2012

ALL THINGS CATHOLIC

I want to share an enthusiasm about one of the best available sources for the...

November 29, 2012

From St. Nicholas to Santa Claus

It's a striking image: a man climbing up the side of a house and tossing...

November 27, 2012

Albert Mohler on Leadership

I did a 2011 podcast interview with Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,...

November 26, 2012

Beechers in the Backyard

We are still in the thick of Civil War commemorations— perhaps Americans never are far...

November 23, 2012

RACE, EMPIRE AND FAITH

One of the really impressive books I have read on the subject of Global or...

November 22, 2012

Giving Thanks

Professors tend to be a grumpy lot. The pay is not exactly stratospheric. University bureaucracies...

November 21, 2012

The Forgotten Virtue of Gratitude

Nothing new from me this week, but here is an article on gratitude that I...

November 20, 2012

Not All Turkey and Touchdowns

My Thanksgiving column, from the Patheos archives: The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony weren’t the first...

November 19, 2012

PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR

I’m reading a biography of one of my favorite authors, whose work has impressed and...

November 18, 2012

Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Benjamin Franklin: Self-made man? So...

November 16, 2012

THE NEW POLITICS OF MORALITY

Depending on which media source you read, the recent election marked the Fall of the...

November 15, 2012

Religious Moments

Churches and their leaders generally don't take kindly to outside scrutiny, but that scrutiny is...

November 14, 2012

Preaching Bonhoeffer and the Uses of the Past

Anxious Bench blogger John Turner asked me to republish this piece here. It originally appeared...

November 13, 2012

Culture-Changing Christians

When Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election, many disappointed supporters - including a number...

November 12, 2012

The “Modern Secular University”

Members of religious orders who served as faculty on the first universities of the...

November 11, 2012

Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week: The Roanoke Colony New issue...

November 09, 2012

ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE?

Not long ago, John Turner ignited controversy when he challenged the idea that Mormonism was...

November 08, 2012

New History of New Thought

John S. Haller Jr.'s The History of New Thought helped me understand a subject that...

November 07, 2012

Why I am Glad the Election is Over

"As an American historian, what do you think about the 2012 presidential election?" I am...

November 06, 2012

Are Evangelicals Welcome on the “Front Porch”?

I have written here several times about thoroughly conservative evangelicals who are "reluctant" Republicans. I...

November 05, 2012

GOD IN LATIN AMERICA

I recently lamented the coverage of religious matters at scholarly conferences, the point being that...

November 04, 2012

Sunday Night Odds and Ends

A few things online that caught my attention this week: Jackson Lears: Mormons and capitalism...

November 02, 2012

WATCHING THE PROFESSORS

Academics do a curious job of treating religion. This point was brought home to me...

November 01, 2012

Religion and the Success of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney

Guest post by Miles S. Mullin II, of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s J. Dalton Havard School for...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Ron Sider on Christian Political Engagement

I recently read Ron Sider's excellent The Scandal of Evangelical Politics: Why Are Christians Missing...

October 30, 2012

Do’s and Don’ts for Evangelicals on Election Sunday

A couple weeks ago I wrote about "Paleo Evangelicals as Reluctant Republicans," and I am...

October 29, 2012

ALL HALLOWED AND HAUNTED

How should we interpret Hurricane Sandy, blowing near Salem, Massachusetts, in the days before Halloween?...

October 26, 2012

JUSTICE FOR CHRIS

If you don’t understand what’s happening in the Muslim world, you’ve probably been following the...

October 25, 2012

Mormons Are (Different) Christians, Not Cultists

The idea that Mormonism is a cult is beyond absurd, unless by cult one simply...

October 24, 2012

What Does Democracy Require of Us?

On March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln stood before the crowd at the United States capitol...

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