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October 2012

October 23, 2012

Should a Candidate’s Faith Matter to Paleo Evangelicals?

In last week's column, "Paleo Evangelicals as Reluctant Republicans," I argued that there are many...

October 22, 2012

THE WRONG QUESTION

Although debates about morality should not be based on quantitative evidence, in practice they tend...

October 21, 2012

Sunday Night Odds and Ends

Starting today, I will be offering the readers of The Anxious Bench a taste of...

October 19, 2012

EMERGING CHRISTIAN NATIONS

Over the past century or so, worldwide Christianity has definitively moved South. In 1900, Christianity...

October 18, 2012

God and the Presidential Debates (Part II)

I am a presidential debate junkie. Predictable as they are in parts, they’re also the...

October 17, 2012

The Historian and Imago Dei

Two weeks ago I wrote in this space about the relationship between the historians work...

October 16, 2012

Paleo Evangelicals as Reluctant Republicans

The mainstream media loves politically liberal evangelicals, especially at this time of year, as we...

October 15, 2012

Two Anniversaries: Vatican II and the 95 Theses

Two noteworthy anniversaries are marked this month: the 50th anniversary of the opening of the...

October 14, 2012

Albert Mohler Interview with John Turner on Brigham Young

Fascinating podcast interview here by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler, with the Anxious Bench's...

October 13, 2012

An Interview with George Marsden and Mark Noll on the Idea of America as a Christian Nation

Thanks to Justin Taylor at The Gospel Coalition for posting an interview with Mark Noll...

October 12, 2012

THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM

How many good films have ever been made on the subject of Christian missions and...

October 11, 2012

Pew Report: More Nones, Fewer Protestants

This week’s big religious headline was a Pew Report that documented (among other trends) the...

October 10, 2012

David Barton, Civil Religion, and Patriotic Idolatry

Guest Post by Miles S. Mullin, II, of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's J. Dalton Havard School...

October 09, 2012

Slavery, Historical Heroes, and “Precious Puritans”

A fascinating controversy has erupted between the worlds of modern rap music and the early...

October 08, 2012

REMEMBER JAMES!

Not long since, there was the Gospel of Judas, then there was Jesus’s Wife, and...

October 06, 2012

The Future of Evangelicalism Online

From an important post from Patheos Director of Content, Timothy Dalrymple, in which he envisions...

October 05, 2012

SURGING NATIONWIDE

Religions are not always what they seem. A colleague once told me of his experience...

October 04, 2012

God and Presidential Debates

It turns out that God rarely merits a mention in presidential debates. There’s often plenty...

October 03, 2012

Sin and the Historian

This semester I am teaching a sophomore seminar entitled "Historical Methods." Since I teach at...

October 02, 2012

A Balanced Evangelical View of America’s Founding

I recently reviewed David Aikman's excellent book One Nation Without God? for Christianity Today. As I note in...

October 01, 2012

Poverty, Chastity, and Delivery

A mother expecting her twenty-fifth baby is just one of the shocks that greet young...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

THE WALES WINDOW

The new book The Color of Christ, by Edward Blum and Paul Harvey, is rightly...

September 27, 2012

Joel Osteen, Evangelical

For many Americans, Joel Osteen is the public face of evangelical Christianity. For many evangelical...

September 26, 2012

We’re #95! We’re #95 We’re #95!!

According to Kent Shaffer at Church Relevance, "The Anxious Bench" is the 95th best "church...

September 25, 2012

“Volunteering” to Pray: Church, State, and College Football

The Freedom from Religion Foundation's (FFRF) campaign to remove religion from American public life has...

September 24, 2012

GRUNDTVIG

In Denmark not long ago, I was of course struck by the rich sense of...

September 21, 2012

JESUS’S WIFE

You have probably observed the media fuss over the ancient text – a lost gospel?...

September 20, 2012

The Baptism of Early Virginia

Over at Religion in American History, our friends have posted a fascinating interview with Rebecca...

September 19, 2012

The Founding Fathers, Barack Obama, and “Taking Care of Our Own”

Here's a piece that I wrote after Obama's acceptance speech at the DNC. It originally...

September 18, 2012

“Thenceforward, and Forever Free”: Remembering Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation

This week marks the 150th anniversary of two of the most significant events of the...

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