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August 2024

August 06, 2024

Hearing and Doing? Medieval Preaching and Modern Podcasts

Summer for many academics means visiting archives or writing, and I’m certainly not an exception...

August 05, 2024

America’s Dates with Destiny

A couple of weeks ago, browsing books in a thrift store (one of my favorite...

August 02, 2024

On Holiday: Hawaiian History through a Colonial Mexican Lens

A gecko popped its head over the open window to peer at us, its bright...

August 01, 2024

American Empire, Voodoo, and Black Religion

Empires affect religions and religious life in many ways, often unintentional, and the American empire...

July 2024

July 31, 2024

Evangelical Outrage Over Olympic Opening Ceremony

Outrage aptly describes the evangelical response to the Paris Olympic Opening Ceremonies this past week....

July 30, 2024

Joseph H. Jackson and Christian Unity

In October 1962, the New York Times ran an article entitled “U.S. Negro Baptist Hails...

July 29, 2024

What Black Women Bloggers Can Teach American Evangelicals

A series of overlapping internal crises and a steep decline in church membership over the...

July 25, 2024

How The American Empire Created Prophets and Messiahs

I have been working on the religious dimensions of American empire, and particularly some of...

July 24, 2024

What 3 Conservative Denominations Decided About Women

This summer three theologically conservative Protestant denominations held their annual conventions. All three made news...

July 23, 2024

The Catholic Conversion of J. D. Vance

This blog post is reposted from Current: Now that he is the Republican vice presidential nominee,...

July 22, 2024

The ’24 Election Has Changed. Here’s What We Need To Do Now.

From an assassination attempt on a former president to the suspended campaign of a...

July 19, 2024

Pastors Complaining About Church Attendance: A Tradition

I’m old enough to remember going to Sunday evening services at my Baptist church growing...

July 18, 2024

Kingdoms Of This World

I’m delighted to announce the publication of my new book, Kingdoms of This World: How...

July 17, 2024

Heroes and Villains: Gendered Discourses of Trafficking

Whatever else might be true of the gendered portrayals in humanitarian rescue narratives, it seems...

July 16, 2024

Mothers of the Church: Faltonia Betitia Proba

In 362, Emperor Julian effectively banned Christians from teaching pagan texts, such as Homer’s Iliad...

July 11, 2024

American Empire and American Religion

I have been working on the topic of empires and their religious dimensions, and my...

July 10, 2024

Jürgen Moltmann (1926-2024): A (Hopeful) Reflection

"People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point,...

July 09, 2024

It’s a Big Country: Thoughts on America’s Masculinity Crisis

This is my first piece as a regular columnist for the Anxious Bench, and I'm...

July 08, 2024

The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom?

Almost anything by Robert Wilken is worth reading. I have benefitted immensely from his The...

July 05, 2024

Does Being Modern Impoverish Worship?

I was recently on a trip where we visited many Buddhist and Hindu temples. None...

July 04, 2024

Israel, Protest, and a Democratic Party Meltdown?

A vast amount of coverage presently discusses the condition of Joe Biden and his likely...

July 02, 2024

Exvangelicals and Mystery Plays

Welcome back to the Anxious Bench Dr. Katherine Cooper Wyma! Dr. Wyma is an Associate...

July 01, 2024

The PCA General Assembly & Lament

Last month, I traveled to Richmond for the Presbyterian Church in America’s General Assembly. Otis...

June 2024

June 29, 2024

The Printed Sources of Southern Sacred Song

A staggering array of human hands across continents and generations created the tradition of sacred...

June 27, 2024

Who Are You Calling Palutian? On Writing Christian History

Around the year 200, Bishop Palut was an important leader of the church in Syria....

June 26, 2024

The Politicization of Evangelical Surfer Bethany Hamilton

I am delighted to share this summer-themed guest post on religion and celebrity in the...

June 25, 2024

Abortion and the Catholic Church in the 1976 Election

The presidential election of 1976 presented the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) with a...

June 24, 2024

No, the Humanity of Migrants Is Not a Joke

Over the weekend, while speaking to an audience of American evangelicals associated with the...

June 21, 2024

Adams, MacArthur and Evangelical Denial of Mental Illness

On the eve of mental health awareness month, a clip of John MacArthur made its...

June 20, 2024

Sea Peoples, Goths, and Barbarians

If you study the historical background of the Old Testament, you will very soon come...

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