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June 2024

June 19, 2024

Princesses and Policemen: Discourses of Human Trafficking

The stories they tell follow a formula that has been produced, reproduced, and adapted by...

June 18, 2024

Do Early Christians Hate the Body?

“Didn’t Augustine have a weird theology of sex?” This question was posed to me by...

June 17, 2024

On Young Evangelicalism’s Diverse Worship Leaders

Hi! I am a cultural sociologist on a tour of Texas Megachurches. Check out my...

June 14, 2024

Going Home: Looking to the Past to Move Forward

I nosed my Camry slowly towards the Palos Verdes Peninsula on a bright afternoon this...

June 13, 2024

Constructing Social Problems: The Second Act?

I have been writing about the sequence of books I had published in an earlier...

June 12, 2024

Saluting the Translators

One of my first public posts ever declared my first experiences of reading literature from...

June 11, 2024

The Danger of Silence About Gaza

A group of Palestinian kids in Gaza huddles around a phone screen. Their beaming smiles...

June 10, 2024

Donald Trump’s Conviction and Historical Turning Points

Donald Trump's May 30th conviction by a jury of his peers on 34 felony counts...

June 07, 2024

Memory Loss, Identity, and Whether History Matters

Memory Loss, Identity, and Whether History Matters My mother was diagnosed with memory problems in...

June 06, 2024

Clergy Sexual Abuse and American Catholic History

I have been describing my work on social problems and nightmares, and how that approach...

June 05, 2024

Exvangelicals and Evangelicals: Reviewing McCammon & Alberta

Last month, I read two recently-released books grappling with trends within evangelicalism: Sarah McCammon’s The...

June 04, 2024

Swimsuits, Stones, and Shepherds: Patristic Takes on Modesty

Summer. The time of year for slower days, sunshine, summer camps, outdoor adventures, and… the...

June 03, 2024

Hallowed Be Thy Name: Your President Is Not Jesus

Today’s post is a little bit angry so be forewarned. I guess I have a...

June 01, 2024

The Evangelical Response to the Trump Verdict

Since the rule of law was upheld in the courts of New York on Thursday,...

May 2024

May 31, 2024

Reckoning with the Cost of Free Land

by Janine Giordano Drake Last November, I had the chance to visit the National Archives...

May 30, 2024

Social Nightmares and the History of American Religion

Recently I described the quite extensive work I had undertaken at an earlier phase of...

May 29, 2024

Forgetting Martha Stearns Marshall: Women’s Roles in the SBC

I am delighted to share this guest post on Southern Baptist (SBC) women by Jordann...

May 28, 2024

A “Just Peace” for Both Israel and the Palestinians

Christians didn’t have to wait until the latest round of campus protests against Israel to...

May 27, 2024

How Important Are Birthdays Anyway?

Today is my birthday. As a religion scholar, I've long been fascinated by the...

May 23, 2024

On Being a Public Intellectual, Lord Help Us

The posts I am offering right now don’t exactly constitute “autobiography,” but think of them...

May 22, 2024

Why is Christianity Today rankled by Taylor Swift?

(This month, I am taking a short break from my megachurch visits series.) Over at...

May 21, 2024

They Said What Now? On Vaguely Defined Theological Language

Throughout my systematic theology class this semester, I ushered students into the painful process of...

May 17, 2024

Teaching Latin American History via Historical Fiction

One afternoon in early November 1519, a Mexica youth named Mitzli, son of a skilled...

May 16, 2024

To What Green Altar?

I have been writing about my writing, or rather about the topics on which I...

May 15, 2024

Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing: A Parable and a Provocation

“If you converse with these missionaries of Christian civilization, you will be surprised to…meet a...

May 14, 2024

And Come to the Defense of Those Targeted

Christian leaders and institutions must come to the defense of those targeted by white Christian...

May 13, 2024

The Fate of Humanities at a Lutheran University

Save the Humanities at Valparaiso University Valparaiso University, where I teach, has been doing some...

May 11, 2024

Campus Protests and the 1995 Nationwide College Revivals

When I was a college sophomore, in the spring of 1995, a wave of student-led...

May 10, 2024

The History of Failure

The history of failure has always inspired me. My own dissertation was written on the...

May 09, 2024

Writing Social Problems and Social Nightmares

If you look at the list of books I have published through the years, you...

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