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February 2024

February 09, 2024

Washington, D.C., Power, and Educational Travel

As someone who grew up on the Mid-Atlantic Coast, trips to Washington, DC were rites...

February 08, 2024

Want to Do Research? Start With The Bibliography

I publish a lot on quite diverse topics. Through the years, I have devised a...

February 06, 2024

Worship Wars: The Early Modern Versions

Worship wars. The phrase might bring to mind debates about contemporary or traditional music, or...

February 05, 2024

ASCH 2024: Review and a Question

Last month, many historians of religion gathered in San Francisco for the American Society of...

February 01, 2024

American Religion Through an Imperial Lens

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

January 2024

January 30, 2024

The Mansfield Crisis: Segregation Trouble in a Texas Town

A crisis occurred in Mansfield, Texas, during the fall of 1956. A typical Jim Crow...

January 26, 2024

What is Gained, and Lost, in a Universal Church

by Janine Giordano Drake A few weeks ago, as my ELCA Lutheran church was reciting...

January 25, 2024

Rediscovering the American Empire

My forthcoming book Kingdoms of This World: How Empires Have Made and Remade Religions (Baylor...

January 24, 2024

Walls Around the World: A Year in Review

I hail from a very well-traveled family. I spent ages 3 months to two-and-a-half years...

January 23, 2024

Can an Authoritarian Political Regime Happen Here?

As the slow pace of economic recovery left many people discontent, it looked like the...

January 22, 2024

The Snow Day as (Endangered) Holiday

A blast of arctic air hit much of the United States last week and...

January 19, 2024

What A Paint Color Reveals About Christian History

In 1602, the Italian painter Caravaggio completed one of the most moving paintings of the...

January 18, 2024

Protestants, and Other Mythical Beasts

Whatever be historical Christianity, it is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth,...

January 17, 2024

“Each Separate Anguish”: Death, Influence, and Carrying On

One of America’s greatest poets and bards, Billy Joel, told us only the good...

January 16, 2024

Naked Baptism in the Early Church

Christian liturgical practices have remained constant as much as they have changed. As early as...

January 16, 2024

Iowa Caucus Repeat: Trump wins the Evangelical Vote

If the last eight years have shown anything, they've shown that the media, academics, religious...

January 13, 2024

Introducing Mike Jimenez to the Anxious Bench

Earlier this week I announced my departure from the Anxious Bench. Today, it is my...

January 12, 2024

Did God Prepare Native Peoples in the Americas for Christ?

Guadalupe & the Flower World Prophesy: Did an Ancient Indigenous Tradition Prepare the Americas for...

January 11, 2024

The Civil War Was Definitely About Slavery, Sort Of

The Civil War and Reconstruction continue to fascinate Americans. Recently, witness the blowback against alleged...

January 10, 2024

Farewell to the Anxious Bench

Nepotism brought me here. You see, back in summer 2021, as I was just starting...

January 08, 2024

On Reading Gregory of Nyssa

One consolation of spotty education is the opportunity to read texts later in life that...

January 05, 2024

Notes on Being “American” Abroad

This Christmas holiday I’ve returned to Australia to visit with friends I made during a...

January 04, 2024

Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Initiation

Today, I am delighted to welcome a guest blogger, who presents the findings of his...

January 03, 2024

New Year, New Post On Jesus’ Favorite Topic: Greed

Just as a reminder, if you couldn’t tell from all of my posts last year,...

January 02, 2024

Living in Light of Christmas: Thoughts for the New Year

As the calendar turns to another year, commercials and advertisements and media all yell loudly...

December 2023

December 30, 2023

Best Books of 2023

Last year I introduced my “Best Books” column with some strategies for how to read....

December 29, 2023

What’s in a Christmas Pageant?

by Janine Giordano Drake American Christians are big on Christmas pageants that resemble Cinderella Stories. ...

December 28, 2023

Forgetting Terrorism in the Heartland: An American Fable

Well, this is about as un-seasonal a theme as I can presently muster, but I...

December 27, 2023

My Year in Books (And a Few For Next Year!)

2023 was a great year for books. Admittedly the book I spent the most time...

December 26, 2023

The Source of Hope in a Violent Year

2023 was a year of violence. In addition to the ongoing war between Russia and...

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