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September 2012

September 17, 2012

Death with Dignity or Physician-Assisted Suicide?

What happens out West does not necessarily stay there. On November 6, voters in...

September 14, 2012

THE SHANKSVILLE SHRINE

Religious shrines come in many different shapes and sizes, as, of course, do definitions of...

September 13, 2012

Phillis Wheatley’s Genius in Bondage

Others at the Anxious Bench know far more about the subject than I do, but...

September 12, 2012

Is America New England Writ Large?

I spent the last couple of days at Duke University where I gave a lecture...

September 11, 2012

“Tweet for Youcef”: Social Media and Religious Liberty

The happy news came this weekend that long-imprisoned Iranian Christian convert and pastor Youcef Nadarkhani had...

September 10, 2012

ANXIOUS TOURS

I recently remarked on the concentration of important religious sites in upstate New York, the...

September 09, 2012

Pioneer Prophet on the Road

Fortunately not by handcart. For any of our readers in Utah (and their friends), I'm...

September 07, 2012

BURNED-OVER DISTRICTS

You can learn a lot about a society by what it remembers, but even more...

September 06, 2012

Book of Mormon Girl

Over the years, I’ve experimented with several ways to introduce students to the topic of...

September 05, 2012

An Epic Night in Philadelphia

It has been a long week and creativity is lacking, so please forgive me for...

September 04, 2012

Barack Obama: Self-Professed Evangelical?

One of the most peculiar moments of the Republican National Convention -- at least among those that did...

September 03, 2012

Where Was California at the First Thanksgiving?

This summer our family traveled to southern California, a first trip to San Diego. Our...

September 02, 2012

Welcome New Anxious Bench Bloggers, Agnes and Tal Howard

A very warm welcome to the newest additions to our Anxious Bench roster of bloggers,...

August 2012

August 31, 2012

PRAISING FAMOUS MEN

Following the recent untimely death of Marvin Meyer, I have been thinking of a dear...

August 30, 2012

Monotheism and Religious Pluralism

This semester, I’m teaching an introductory course on “Religions of the West.” My initial hope...

August 28, 2012

Engaging the Past, Engaging History

I was going to write about the GOP Convention today, but I found the following...

August 28, 2012

Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity

Our church recently hosted a presentation by Owen Strachan, who teaches theology and church history...

August 27, 2012

ALL GOSPELS WERE NOT CREATED EQUAL

I just read an obituary of Early Christianity scholar Marvin Meyer, who died at the...

August 24, 2012

RIOT GIRLS

Well, this takes me back. Do you know how long it is since anyone accused...

August 23, 2012

The Carnivore’s Dilemma

I like to eat. My family was in the live-to-eat category while I was growing...

August 22, 2012

Stephen Covey: Mormon Theologian?

Matthew Bowman, writing at the Religion in American History Blog, has a fascinating piece on...

August 21, 2012

Paul Ryan and the Curious Case of the Missing Evangelicals

We now have a presidential ticket without at least one candidate who is nominally Protestant....

August 20, 2012

THE FAITH OF WALES

I am a fully certified Welsh person. In fact, other products of my hometown of...

August 18, 2012

The Latter-Day Saints and Race

The Anxious Bench's John Turner has a New York Times editorial this weekend titled "Why...

August 17, 2012

SONGS OF FAITH

I recently asked about novels that could provide useful background for teaching a course on...

August 16, 2012

Brigham Young and Mitt Romney, Beer and History

How could a Washington Post article discussing President Obama’s campaign beer-drinking not mention the LDS...

August 15, 2012

What Can We Learn From the David Barton Controversy?

In case you have not heard, last week Thomas Nelson, a Christian publisher based in...

August 14, 2012

Farewell to My Favorite Used Bookstore

From Waco it takes about three and a half hours to get to Archer City,...

August 13, 2012

ONE MORE RIVER TO CROSS

The London Review of Books recently published a wonderful review by Robert Alter of Rachel...

August 10, 2012

MARTIN LUTHER AND ANGELA MERKEL

Unless you have been living in a very remote Appalachian cave, you will know that...

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