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September 2023

September 27, 2023

The Oberlin Option: A Sending City on a Hill

Can we create a perfect world? That was the title of a talk I gave...

September 26, 2023

Why Did Jonathan Edwards Think That Slavery Was Morally Right?

John Piper, the Minnesota-based Baptist pastor who has popularized Jonathan Edwards’s Calvinist theology for a...

September 25, 2023

“God is a God of Action”: A Conversation with Felipe Hinojosa on Latino Religious Politics, Scholarship, and the Public Good

The past two weeks—the opening days of National Hispanic Heritage Month—have been marked by...

September 21, 2023

How The Ancient Christian Heresies Lasted A Thousand Years Longer Than We Think

Historians sometimes have the bad habit of assuming that laws and edicts passed in bygone...

September 20, 2023

The Old Home Place: An Evangelical Conservative Mennonite Writes a 788-Page Novel

It’s a fascinating and lovely and disturbing book, and it made me think hard about...

September 19, 2023

Mothers of the Church: Blandina

Enduring violence has long been part of the Christian story—Stephen was stoned (Acts 7:54-60), Paul...

September 18, 2023

“The World is an Insane Asylum”: Notes from a Texas Megachurch Visit

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

September 15, 2023

The “Littlest Saints” Show: Children Modeling Faith to Children

The stories of Christian heroes have long inspired Christian children, including my own. Saint stories...

September 14, 2023

A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World

I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book, A Storm of Images:...

September 13, 2023

Will the Real Cultural Christians Please Stand Up?

If you happen to be a Christian in America right now, I have good news...

September 12, 2023

The Remarkable Account of the Freedman, Anthony Johnson

Antonio the Negro arrived in Virginia in 1621, which means he witnessed the devastating attacks...

September 08, 2023

History, Cancel Culture, and the Desire for Innocence

In the 1980s when I was growing up as a pastor’s daughter in a conservative...

September 07, 2023

A Major New History of the Earliest Christianity

I want to announce and celebrate the publication of a really valuable new book, and...

September 05, 2023

What We Leave Behind: Objects, Priorities, and Faith

Summer for professors often means reworking classes or developing new courses, along with doing our...

September 04, 2023

A Labor Day conversation with Dr. Heath Carter

This Labor Day, I had the joy of talking with Dr. Heath Carter, Associate Professor...

August 2023

August 31, 2023

Beyond Left Behind: The Lost Legacy of Tim LaHaye

Today we welcome Jared Stacy back to the Anxious Bench. Stacy is a PhD candidate...

August 30, 2023

The Fragility of Religious and Racial Minorities

Today we welcome Dr. Michel Sun Lee, an Assistant Professor of History and Political Studies...

August 29, 2023

History’s Invitation to Belong

Today we welcome Holly Berkley Fletcher to the Anxious Bench. Dr. Fletcher is an American historian...

August 28, 2023

Megachurch Pastor Canvasses The Frankfurt School

(Before I begin, I'd like to note that my last article has proven prescient: in...

August 23, 2023

The Evangelical Imagination: An Interview with Karen Swallow Prior

One of the privileges of writing for the Anxious Bench is that when I read...

August 22, 2023

Historicism Was a Greater Challenge Than Darwinism to Some Late 19th-Century Evangelicals’ Christian Faith

If you ask the average educated American Christian what new academic idea presented the greatest...

August 21, 2023

My Body, Their Baby: Grace Y. Kao on the Christian Ethics of Surrogacy

While assisted reproductive technology has made it possible for many people to welcome children...

August 18, 2023

Medieval Christians’ Most Burning Questions Answered: “Why do we say ‘Amen’ to end a prayer?”

Have you heard the one about Bernard of Clairvaux, the peasant, and the horse? The...

August 17, 2023

World Values, Western Values, and the Fate of Religion

I have a long-standing admiration for the very influential scholar Ronald L. Inglehart. A couple...

August 16, 2023

Infinite Fountain of Light: Reclaiming Jonathan Edwards from the Theobros

George Marsden explains that Jonathan Edwards preached other sermons.

August 15, 2023

Mothers of the Church: Macrina the Younger

Icons, pictures, and mosaics of the “Three Holy Hierarchs”, also called “the Cappadocians”, are common...

August 14, 2023

Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict

I have been at work on a book project, Modern Christian Theology: An Intellectual History,...

August 11, 2023

Walking Among Early Citizens: 19th Century Stories in a Dilapidated Graveyard

Perspiration, gathering into rivulets, slid into the folds of my clothing as I gazed at...

August 10, 2023

The Virgin and the Star Child

Do you remember the Star Child? If I were to choose the single fictional work...

August 09, 2023

Dorothy Sayers Solves Her Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

In the wake of WWI, a brilliant woman in search of an income found herself...

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