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August 2023

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...

August 08, 2023

Perennial Challenges for Christian Historians…and Two Defeaters of Them

A perennial challenge for historians, who are Christians, is the challenge of finding acceptance and...

August 07, 2023

Overlapping Identities and Conflicting Contexts

Everyone’s life is a Venn diagram of overlapping identities and roles. In my case, I...

August 03, 2023

Spiritual Travel: Biking the Camino on a Protestant Pilgrimage

My husband Tommy just turned fifty. For the last 5 years he has planned to...

August 03, 2023

Mark Twain, Slavery, And The Space-Annihilating Power Of Thought

I am not sure how much people read Mark Twain these days, but one work...

August 02, 2023

Violence and “A Christian Nation”

This past week, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation establishing the new Emmett Till and...

August 01, 2023

Do I Always Have to Smile?: C.S. Lewis and “Shiny Happy People”

Today's post is from a guest contributor, my colleague Dr. Katherine Cooper Wyma. Dr. Wyma...

July 2023

July 31, 2023

Evangelical Anxiety: A Review

It has been just over a year since Charles Marsh’s memoir Evangelical Anxiety was published....

July 28, 2023

Defending the Protestant Nation: The Role of Church History in 1830s Nativism

We have the pleasure of inviting Dr. Paul Gutacker to the Anxious Bench today. Gutacker...

July 27, 2023

The World Her Wilderness

Last time I wrote about the English novelist Rose Macaulay (1881-1958), arguing that she was...

July 26, 2023

The Great Potsdam Castle Bathroom Incident, or, How I Changed My Mind

One sunny afternoon in Germany, I found myself in need of a restroom. And I...

July 25, 2023

President Warren Harding’s Liberal Baptist Faith

Next week marks the 100-year anniversary of the death of the first Baptist president of...

July 24, 2023

Faith, Friendship, and Sweet Magnolias: A Roundtable Discussion

Friendship, family, and faith: these are central themes in Sweet Magnolias, the popular Netflix...

July 21, 2023

Who Can Be Called “Pastor”? On Southern Baptists, Ancient Bishops, and What Goes without Saying

*Author's note: A previous version of this post mistakenly identified Basil the Elder as the...

July 20, 2023

Rose Macaulay’s CREWE TRAIN; or, It All Started with Agatha Christie

Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was an English author whom I used to regard as a very...

July 19, 2023

The Cross and the Badge: The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover. Richard Nixon. Donald Trump. Roger Stone. History may not repeat itself. But...

July 18, 2023

Where are the Mothers of the Church? On Patristic Theology and the Visibility Problem

When someone makes the mistake of asking what I do for a living, I typically...

July 17, 2023

Church-Hopping in Texas

On the morning of July 2nd, I scanned my wardrobe for something red or white...

July 14, 2023

Please Don’t Take our Friars Away! How Franciscans are Looking to the Past to Preserve their Future

St. Mary’s Basilica in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places...

July 13, 2023

Blood Libels and Media Mythologies

This post has two related themes. It is about how the media systematically misunderstand and...

July 12, 2023

On Saying Goodbye to a Beloved Church

On Sunday, July 2, 2023, we attended service for the last time in our beloved...

July 11, 2023

Facing Fears with an Evangelical Faith

Tumultuous times of transition in the academic, evangelical, political, and social spheres have brought evangelical...

July 07, 2023

Parents’ Rights, Religious Freedom, and the State

There’s an old saying that political battles in the United States are first fought in...

July 06, 2023

Fourteen Million Caribbean Americans (And Their Churches)

I recently posted about the critical importance of the Caribbean dimension in American history. The...

July 05, 2023

What’s Wrong with Racism?: The Supreme Court and You

This is now the first question that I ask whenever I enter into a conversation...

July 04, 2023

Medieval Christian Nationalism? Crusades and Christian Nations

For those of us who are American, today is the Fourth of July: a day...

July 03, 2023

On the Students for Fair Admission v. President and Fellows of Harvard decision

On Thursday June 29, the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action in college admissions in...

June 2023

June 29, 2023

American History and the Caribbean Dimension

Should students of American history be allowed to escape without taking a course or two...

June 28, 2023

Berlin and Baylor: Models for Memorializing a Difficult Past

You would not think that the land of beer and sausages would help me with...

June 27, 2023

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Christian Apologetics

It was a hot summer in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956. The temperature soared to 100...

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