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June 2023

June 26, 2023

Religion, Race, and Never Have I Ever: A Roundtable on Season Four

At long last: the final season of Never Have I Ever is here, and...

June 22, 2023

Looking Backward: How We Tell US History The Wrong Way Round

I am presently working on a History of the United States. My only minor problem...

June 21, 2023

Life Comes for the Archbishop

Reflections on traveling in the American Southwest

June 20, 2023

Can Orthodoxy Hide Heresy? On Apollinarius of Laodicea and Mark Driscoll

The famous defender of orthodox faith, Basil of Caesarea, wrote a theologian early in his...

June 19, 2023

On the (Pending) Bandit-ization of Evangelicalism

To my best knowledge, I’ve only made up one conspiracy theory. Once, on a family...

June 16, 2023

Burial Shrouds and Funeral Rites: A Nahua Woman Negotiates a Medieval Spanish Death Ritual

May my body be buried in the Church of San Gabriel in the said city...

June 15, 2023

Burying the Bible: How a Victorian Painting Hymned a Revolution

This post concerns a painting I first encountered many years ago, and which has remained...

June 14, 2023

Pro-Life? Then You Should Teach Sunday School and Volunteer in Your Church Nursery

Every Sunday morning in the small-town Georgia PCA church where my husband and I have...

June 13, 2023

Jonathan Edwards, TheoBros, and Misattributing Sources

Yesterday, as I was enjoying a light breakfast of fried eggs, toast, and a Nesspresso...

June 12, 2023

From Lithuania

The windswept Curonian Spit, on the Baltic Sea, affords a choice spot for reflecting on...

June 09, 2023

On Being A Historian, Tourist, and Awkward Guest

I’m spending 10 weeks out of the country this summer, either for work or pleasure...

June 08, 2023

After Byzantium: Survivors and Pretenders

I have been posting on Late Byzantine history, focusing on the different ways in which...

June 06, 2023

Martin Luther and “Shiny Happy People”: Reflections on Parenting, God, and Reformations

Parenting has been something that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. With a recently...

June 05, 2023

Interview with Dr. Lloyd Barba

Today I have the great privilege of speaking with Dr. Lloyd Barba, Assistant Professor of...

June 02, 2023

Are Your Kids Safe at Evangelical Summer Church Camps?

Over on my substack, Past and Piety, I have started a series called Fragments from...

June 01, 2023

Why Historians Really Need To Know How Aristocracy Worked

Recently, I was working on a couple of totally unrelated projects relating to British history...

May 2023

May 31, 2023

Echoes from Ecuador: Listening to C. René Padilla

Today we welcome Dr. Nathan Cartagena, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College. His...

May 30, 2023

The Profit of Paranoia

Today we welcome a guest post from Jared Stacy, who is a PhD candidate in...

May 26, 2023

Performing the Past: 100 Years of Friars, Native People, and Injustice at the Ramona Bowl

The Franciscan friar, standing before a low, whitewashed ranch house, raised his hand in blessing...

May 25, 2023

Pentecost, Resurrection, and the Chasm of History

This coming Sunday marks the feast of Pentecost. In connection with that, I am posting...

May 24, 2023

A Christian Woman for Polarized Times: Nancy Koester on Sojourner Truth

I am delighted to welcome Nancy Koester to the Anxious Bench today to discuss her...

May 23, 2023

The Secret of Tim Keller’s Christian Apologetics

When I was losing my faith fourteen years ago, Tim Keller’s writings and sermons gave...

May 22, 2023

On Choosing Well: Advice for Graduates and Reflections on Boyz II Men and My First Mixtape

May is my favorite month of the year, not only because it’s Asian American...

May 18, 2023

Plethon’s Renaissance

My recent work has concerned the Byzantine world in its last days, and that exploration...

May 17, 2023

Born-again Friar: Saint Francis of Assisi among Evangelicals

On the many American evangelical uses of a medieval saint

May 16, 2023

Holy Folly: On the Billy Graham Rule, Twitter Feuds, and the Idolatry of Reputation

Serapion Sindonites was a devout monk from the fourth century who had the Scriptures memorized,...

May 15, 2023

A Brief Musing After a Recent Trip to Brazil

I just returned from a trip to Brazil, which involved research in three major cities:...

May 12, 2023

A Tale of Two Coaches: Ted Lasso and Bill McCartney

Spoiler Alert: This article works with cultural memes and identity politics from the most recent...

May 11, 2023

Byzantium, The Greek Language, and the Making of Modern Christianity

Today’s post is about one very specific event, but it gets centrally to the way...

May 10, 2023

Discerning Vocation: Walking Away from Academia

It seems that whenever I hear Christians talk about the consequences of Adam and Eve's...

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