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August 2012

August 09, 2012

Luther, Cranach, and Me

I became a historian through the Bible and the Reformation. For starters, at a certain...

August 08, 2012

Should Historians Cast Judgment on the Past?

As a history professor I often find myself in conversations with students and fellow faculty...

August 07, 2012

Puritans: The Original Republicans?

What political legacy did the Puritans leave to America? There was a time when historians...

August 06, 2012

“PARTICULAR CONCERN” ABOUT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

The US State Department just released its Report on International Religious Freedom. Much of the...

August 03, 2012

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

I recently described the 1888 novel Robert Elsmere, which in its day was a global...

August 02, 2012

An Icon of Mormon Christianity

The north visitor's center at Salt Lake City's Temple Squarehouses an eleven-foot statue of the...

August 01, 2012

Being a Historian

James Banner's Being a Historian: An Introduction to the Professional World of History should be...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

The National Parks’ Best Kept Secret? Junior Rangers

The National Parks may well be "America's best idea" (goodness knows the government has had...

July 30, 2012

THE BIBLE IN AMSTERDAM

Last week, I had the great pleasure of attending the International meetings of the Society...

July 27, 2012

ROBERT ELSMERE

I recently posted about The Damnation Of Theron Ware, a classic example of a book...

July 26, 2012

Catholic Political Impotence

Since he hasn't drawn attention to it here, I wanted to point our readers to...

July 25, 2012

What Are You Reading This Summer?

I am sure that the educated and informed readers of the Anxious Bench are making...

July 24, 2012

Patrick Henry, Homeschooler

Here's a popular post I wrote last year at Patheos: Patrick Henry, the greatest orator...

July 23, 2012

THE DESOLATION OF REALITY

Some of the world's grimmest headlines these days are coming out of North Africa, and...

July 20, 2012

ROCK AND REVIVAL

I recently did a column on RealClearReligion about a music-related topic that I think needs...

July 19, 2012

Douthat on Liberal Christianity’s Death

Earlier this week, Philip touched on Ross Douthat's provocative -- if not particularly original --...

July 18, 2012

Be Ye Glad: Christian Music in the 1980s

Last week while I was in Ocean City, New Jersey, my family and I attended...

July 17, 2012

Best 5 Books on the Puritans

I recently reviewed Michael Winship's Godly Republicanism: Puritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a Hill,...

July 16, 2012

THE CHURCH VANISHES

I am a member of the Episcopal Church, USA (hereafter TEC). I am increasingly worried...

July 13, 2012

THE DAMNATION OF THERON WARE

I recently described the problem of finding useful novels that could be used to teach...

July 12, 2012

Lives of Reinvention

Summer is an all-too-short season for making time to read items that have languished on...

July 11, 2012

American History and the American Church: A Proposal

I spent the weekend in the beautiful beach town of Ocean City, NJ where I...

July 10, 2012

“Ask Jesus into Your Heart”: A History of the Sinner’s Prayer

Many an evangelical pastor has concluded a sermon by asking non-Christians to "ask [or receive,...

July 09, 2012

SAINTS AND SYRIANS

I have been giving a lot of thought to a recent news story that, to...

July 06, 2012

TEACHING TRUTH WITH FICTION

Not for the first time, a conversation with Tommy Kidd has set me thinking. Whenever...

July 04, 2012

MISSIONS AND DEMOCRACY

We don’t normally look for major pieces about the history of Christian missions in the...

July 03, 2012

The Top 5 Forgotten Founders

When Americans speak of the "Founding Fathers," they usually have a group of about six...

July 02, 2012

New York Times on Mormon History

The New York Times has an excellent piece on the "growing cadre of young scholars of...

July 02, 2012

SUNDAYS AT SINAI

My former Penn State colleague Tobias Brinkmann has just published a striking book called Sundays...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

FAITH IN AUSTRALIA

Through the kindness of my Baylor University colleague Bernard Doherty, I have been looking at...

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