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November 2023

November 14, 2023

Helping Students See White Jesus

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

November 13, 2023

“The Most Important Theological Work of the Twentieth Century”

One of the challenges of writing intellectual history is the task of summing up large...

November 10, 2023

Still Adventist? Why Retain Denominational Identities

While as a Christian historian I frequently interact with people who are wrestling with their...

November 09, 2023

The Reverend Mr. Saunders and the Sufis

My current work involves the topic of Lived Religion, which over the past few decades...

November 08, 2023

Atrocity and Your Imagination

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. - Romans 12:21 It...

November 07, 2023

Israel, Palestine, and Medieval Bias in Modern Headlines

It’s hard to read the news right now. The ongoing reports from Israel and Gaza...

November 06, 2023

60 Years Since ’63: King Symposium at Stanford University

A couple of weeks ago, I had the great honor of participating in a symposium...

November 03, 2023

Lived Religion and Default Faith

My present work concerns the topic of Lived Religion, which will be the subject of...

November 02, 2023

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and the Making of American Religion

In 2021 I published the book Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Driven...

November 01, 2023

How a Painting Illustrates the Nineteenth Century History Wars over American Christian Foundations

I am presently revising my textbook on the History of the United States, for a...

October 2023

October 31, 2023

Halloween Hauntings

Every Halloween for several years, I have posted something that is oriented to horror, weird...

October 30, 2023

Walking in Darkness: How a Psalm Shaped Horror Fiction

This is the first of two Halloween offerings from me this year. Earlier this year...

October 26, 2023

Call me a Product of the Nineteenth Century, But I Don’t Understand the Problem with Structural Sin

by Janine Giordano Drake Lucas Miles, author of The Christian Left: How Liberal Thought Has...

October 26, 2023

Now We Are Six: Thoughts On Writing Very Modern US History

As I have remarked in a couple of recent posts, I am currently writing a...

October 25, 2023

The Elisabeth Elliot We Never Knew: An Interview with Lucy Austen

I am delighted to welcome Lucy S. R. Austen to the Anxious Bench to talk...

October 24, 2023

American Secularization Hasn’t Followed the Script That Secularization Theory Would Predict

“Nones” now comprise 28 percent of the American adult population, according to survey data that...

October 23, 2023

The Need to End Islamophobia and Antisemitism Is Urgent – and the Responsibility Lies With All of Us

Last weekend, Wadea Al-Fayoume, a six-year-old Palestinian American boy in Illinois, was stabbed to...

October 20, 2023

What About the Palestinians? Southern Baptists vs. Southern Baptist Missionaries, part 1

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

October 19, 2023

How an Ancient Library of Suppressed Sacred Books Survived Through the Middle Ages

Our standard impression of the Medieval Christian world is distorted. The conventional picture suggests a...

October 18, 2023

If Only He Hadn’t Fired the Cabinet: Jimmy Carter and the “Malaise” Speech

On Carter's so-called "malaise speech," the most theologically profound speech by an American president since...

October 17, 2023

Is Arianism Real? On Name-Calling and Othering in the Church

This post is part of a series at the Anxious Bench on ‘Contested Ideas in...

October 16, 2023

From John Wayne to Max Lucado? A Texas Megachurch Visit

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

October 12, 2023

The Long, Long, Afterlife of the Gospel of Thomas

This post is part of a series at the Anxious Bench on ‘Contested Ideas in...

October 11, 2023

Humanizing the Arab-Israeli Wars: Dion Nissenbaum’s History of Jerusalem’s Alley of God

There is a street in Jerusalem whose history sheds a different, more personal and human...

October 10, 2023

The Israel-Hamas Attack and the Evangelical Christian Response

Early on Saturday morning October 7, over a thousand Hamas attacked Israeli citizens and military,...

October 09, 2023

American Evangelicals’ Categorical Problem

American evangelicals have a categorical problem. I’m not talking about our denominations, our broader theological...

October 06, 2023

Jesuits in the Closet (And in the Classroom)

The Jesuits just won’t go away. In my classroom today, when discussing Christian missions...

October 05, 2023

The Myth of Jesus’s Jewish Executioners

J. Christopher Edwards has a new book out this week entitled Crucified: The Christian Invention...

October 03, 2023

Tradition! (But What Is It?)

This post is part of a series at the Anxious Bench on ‘Contested Ideas in...

October 01, 2023

A Conversation with Dr. Andrew Whitehead

Last month I had the privilege of talking with Andrew Whitehead, Associate Professor of Sociology...

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