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December 2023

December 25, 2023

Making Christmas Magic When There Are Few Christmases Left

Christmas is a holiday that celebrates family. This is true for Christians who celebrate Christmas...

December 23, 2023

Dunwell, Satanic Temple, and Christian Nationalism’s Failing

Iowa state House Representative Jon Dunwell (R) has been on a hero’s journey for the...

December 22, 2023

FROM THE ARCHIVES: In Every Heart There Is a Womb

For my post this month, I wanted to revisit my Christmas post from last December....

December 21, 2023

When The Darkness Did Not Grasp The Light

Over the Christmas season, our churches will be reading the magnificent Prologue to John’s Gospel,...

December 20, 2023

From Oxford Don to Field Preacher

In my historical research I try to find a balance between the beautiful and the...

December 19, 2023

Spending Advent with Our (Church) Fathers and Mothers

Devotional literature is everywhere. It might be found on your grandma’s bookshelf, the catalogue of...

December 18, 2023

Shall a Nation be Born in a Day? Megachurches on Gaza

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

December 15, 2023

Before You Came to Birth: Grieving Children Lost in the Womb

I have been struggling lately. Grief that generally rests quietly in my heart has been...

December 14, 2023

The Year Jesus Was Born

Well, this is not the kind of subject matter that people normally address when planning...

December 13, 2023

2023: My Year in Books

This has been a year of very big changes for the Williams family, as my...

December 12, 2023

Please Think Better about Race

I shouldn’t be surprised by now but I still am. As both a pastor and...

December 11, 2023

Donald Trump, Evangelicals, and the 2024 Election

They say confession is good for the soul, so I am going to confess that...

December 08, 2023

Memoir, History, and the Historian

I’m 50 my next birthday, and it seems a time for taking stock and for...

December 07, 2023

The Friar and the Maya

Today we have a guest post on an important historical topic, to which I will...

December 06, 2023

Evangelicals Behaving Badly

[Article Updated, December 19, 2023: Some words have been added/altered to recognize that Stackhouse disputes...

December 05, 2023

Joy in the Waiting: Medieval Plays and Advent Reflections

Tinsel halos and cardboard wings, bathrobes and blankets and staffs, giggles, somewhat out-of-tune singing, and...

December 04, 2023

Thank you, yes: A Moment for Gratitude

With all that’s happening: war(s), strife, homelessness, inequality, even still, even here, a moment for...

December 01, 2023

Lived Religion and the Futures of Faith

I recently posted on the sizable literature on the scientific explanations for religious behavior. As...

November 2023

November 30, 2023

A Preparation for Religion

In my previous post, I discussed the very active field of scientific studies of religious...

November 29, 2023

The Education of Beth Moore: A Review of All My Knotted-Up Life

It's the most wonderful time of the year: the time to buy all your friends...

November 28, 2023

The Philosophical Assumptions behind Historical Criticism of the Gospels

Twenty-one percent of white mainline Protestants do not believe in the virgin birth of Jesus,...

November 27, 2023

Eid Trees, Gingerbread Mosques, and the Multiplicity of Asian American Religious Life

Of all the holiday-themed romantic comedies that I consume in abundance this time of...

November 26, 2023

What About the Palestinians? Southern Baptists vs. Southern Baptist Missionaries, part 2

This is the second post in a two-part series on the history Southern Baptist perceptions...

November 23, 2023

Thanksgiving for What?

Janine Giordano Drake We’ve all heard the story: Abe Lincoln created the national holiday we...

November 22, 2023

The Chicago Declaration Turns 50

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of a evangelical road less traveled

November 21, 2023

Gregory of Nyssa and C.S. Lewis: On the Need to Read (and Write) Across Genres

As I walked through the book room at the Society of Biblical Literature conference this...

November 17, 2023

Running Toward the Vineyard of the Lord: Harvesting Grapes for God

Early on the first Friday of October, as whispers of mist drifted over the mountains...

November 16, 2023

Heaven on their Minds? Scientific Theories of Religious Belief and Behavior

My current work on Lived Religion constantly reminds me of how very similar are the...

November 15, 2023

Why Christians Should Think about the Roman Empire Daily

I remember the first time I read the New Testament book of Acts. It was...

November 14, 2023

Helping Students See White Jesus

Today I have the pleasure of welcoming a guest contribution from my Wheaton College colleague...

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