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May 2024

May 08, 2024

Choosing Mother: Camus’s Advice for Today

Let me review my last couple of posts. First, I discussed the growing attention among...

May 07, 2024

Everybody and Everyman: Medieval and Modern Morality Plays

Maybe let’s just all be a little better about recycling. Also really really listening to...

May 06, 2024

Faithful Learning in Institutional Contexts, w/ Allie Lopez

Faithful Learning in Different Institutional Contexts: A Conversation with Allie Roberts Lopez We have been...

May 02, 2024

Writing My Global Religion Cycle – And Where I Go Next

There are great magisterial scholars who plan out vast multi-volume series on grand topics. Then...

May 01, 2024

The Company of the Courageous Middle

Few things challenge our integrity or our comfort, like being called to express our opinion...

April 2024

April 30, 2024

Tell All the Truth

Recently, I wrote a book about poetry. I never intended to. Most of my writing...

April 25, 2024

Using Radio to Research American History

Much of my work through the years has involved using popular culture as a vehicle...

April 24, 2024

United Methodist General Conference Redux: 2020 vs. 2024

I read with interest fellow Anxious Bencher Jacob Randolph's excellent recent post on the issues...

April 23, 2024

Why Is the Abortion Rate Increasing?

The Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 was supposed to reduce...

April 22, 2024

The Johnson-Reed Act and American Religious History

This year marks one hundred years since the passage of the Immigration Act of...

April 21, 2024

Taylor Swift, Tortured Poets Department and Exegesis

I think Taylor Swift, J. J. Abrams, and pre-critical exegesis share something in common. They...

April 20, 2024

United Methodist General Conference 2024: What to Look For

Two of the largest Protestant denominations in the US are holding international meetings in April

April 18, 2024

The Historical Mythology of Clergy Sexual Abuse

Through the years, I have been much engaged studying the topic of sexual abuse by...

April 17, 2024

History and Alternatives: An Interview with Francis Spufford

A few notes before jumping into this interview, which I am delighted to present to...

April 16, 2024

Sola Scriptura? On Paratexts and Devotional Practice

I have several Bibles on my shelf—some in ancient languages, some translations that I use...

April 15, 2024

Once more into the Fray: Texas Megachurch Visit

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

April 12, 2024

Drama in Nahua Mexico: 3 Rulers Visit Altepetl of Bethlehem

Los Reyes Magos, ca. 1875-1900, carved and painted wood with metal and string. Smithsonian American...

April 11, 2024

And the Rest of the Bible…

Britain during the 1960s and 1970s suffered from a Prime Minister named Harold Wilson. Once,...

April 10, 2024

Lewis, Barth and U.S. Christian Learning: The Reception

"I distrust folks who have ugly things to say about Karl Barth. I like old...

April 09, 2024

Is It Time To Rebrand Brand Evangelicals?

The emergence of mid-twentieth century evangelicalism, often referred to as “New Evangelicalism” or “Neo-Evangelicalism,” created...

April 08, 2024

Speaking the Unspeakable

A month ago on this site, in “The Crisis of the Evangelical Heart” Joey Cochran...

April 05, 2024

Are Seventh-day Adventists Evangelical?

This is a click-bait question, but over the last few weeks it is one that...

April 04, 2024

Rudyard Kipling, Neil Gaiman, and A Perfect Story for Easter

I have a literary dilemma. I want to rave about a piece of writing –...

April 02, 2024

Authorized Bibles and Political Figures, 1611 and Now

If you’ve been following the news this past week, you’ve likely seen something about the...

March 2024

March 29, 2024

Woodrow Wilson’s Christianity and Ours

by Janine Giordano Drake When Woodrow Wilson ran for president in 1912, he called himself...

March 28, 2024

The Mocking of Carabas, and of Christ

A passage in the Alexandrian writer Philo casts a curious light on Christian origins, and...

March 27, 2024

Nonviolence and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

A couple weeks ago I saw the classic 1962 Western The Man Who Shot Liberty...

March 26, 2024

The Lost Social Justice Ethic of the Temperance Movement

When even the most conservative of American evangelicals started drinking alcohol, they lost their movement’s...

March 25, 2024

Missionary Diplomacy: An Interview with Emily Conroy-Krutz

When I was doing the research for my book about Hmong refugee resettlement in the...

March 21, 2024

The Stone Which The Builders Rejected

This coming weekend we celebrate Palm Sunday, the dramatic events that mark the beginning of...

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