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March 2023

March 22, 2023

Christianity from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: A Conversation with Gina Zurlo

On the demography of global Christianity

March 21, 2023

Welcome to New Blogger Adam Renberg!

Last week I stood in the early Christian catacombs. Just feet below some of the...

March 20, 2023

Hemispheric Histories for Racial and Ethnic Solidarity, Part II

In my last post, I argued that the histories of the U.S. Black Church and...

March 17, 2023

The court martial of Irish Catholics in Mexico: Los San Patricios and the largest public execution in U.S. military history

“Los San Patricios” (Pino Cacucci, 2015) “Have you heard of the San Patricios?” a student...

March 16, 2023

Christianity and the Making of the Quran

I have just read a very good book that throws major new light on the...

March 15, 2023

Women’s Religious Journals and Accidents of Primary Source Survival

In a gloomy prison about 1,820 years ago, a young nursing mother, desperately missing her...

March 14, 2023

New England Women and the Geographies of Power (Part Two)

On the 10th of February, 1675/6, natives allied with the Wampanoag leader, King Philip (Metacom),...

March 13, 2023

Remembering (and Loving) the Dead

It’s been just over a year since I found my beloved colleague of 20 years...

March 09, 2023

Jesus Revolution

The fact that the film Jesus Revolution was released at virtually the same time as...

March 08, 2023

The United States and Its Biblical Counterparts

At my church, Mosaic Waco, my co-pastor, Slim, and I are preaching through the book...

March 07, 2023

Pulpits and Pews: Women’s History Month and the Church

Since 1987, March has been recognized as Women’s History Month in the United States. Tomorrow,...

March 06, 2023

People Get Ready (again)!

We are back with another installment!  Last month, I wrote about Eerdman’s Press’ new  People...

March 03, 2023

New England Women and the Geographies of Power (Part One)

The First Peoples (Natives) viewed their geography as a space of spiritual interconnection between ecology...

March 02, 2023

Fire Fall Down: The Asbury Revival   

The revival at Asbury University has been attracting intense excitement in the evangelical world, and...

March 01, 2023

An American in Amman: A U.S. Historian Visits the Middle East

Over Christmas break, I had the incredible privilege of visiting the Middle East for the...

February 2023

February 28, 2023

Why Tim Keller Stays out of the Culture Wars

A Review of Collin Hansen's Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation (Zondervan, 2023) In a world...

February 27, 2023

How Have American Christian Churches Responded to Anti-Asian Racism?

  Last month a college student at Indiana University Bloomington was stabbed in the face...

February 24, 2023

How to Stop the Killing: Public Opinion and Racial Violence

What stops racial violence? I won’t answer that question fully here (I’ve got a book...

February 23, 2023

Three Temptations, and Three Triumphs

I just published the book He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence: The Many...

February 22, 2023

Revival Fire and Small-Town Traffic Jams: A Photo Essay

A visual sociologist chronicles the Asbury Revival

February 21, 2023

New Year, New Books: Readings for My Graduate Course Spring Syllabus

In her Women and Power: A Manifesto, historian and bestselling author of SPQR Mary Beard explains...

February 20, 2023

Hemispheric Histories for Racial and Ethnic Solidarity, Part I

As an immigrant and Afro-Brazilian historian with a profound interest in the history of Christianity...

February 17, 2023

Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Franciscan Habits: The Art of Dying in Late Sixteenth-Century Spanish-Indigenous Cholula

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

February 16, 2023

Reading the Bible Across Christian Traditions

This is about a specific piece of art that powerfully illustrates the influence and reception...

February 15, 2023

Women’s Rights, Virtues Recovered, and a Different Benedict Option: A Review of Erika Bachiochi’s Rights of Women

The history of women’s rights in the U.S. over the past century is often presented...

February 14, 2023

The Fullness and Beauty of Black Music: The Fisk Jubilee Singers

Fisk University is a private, historically black university, founded in 1866 and located in Nashville,...

February 13, 2023

“Are Latter Day Saints Christians?”

It’s a question that understandably vexes Latter Day Saints, but it lies behind an important...

February 10, 2023

Marking Time: Holidays, Seasons, and Birthdays

Everyone has their favorite holiday, season, or time of year. I love spring. I love...

February 09, 2023

Age of the Spirit; or, How The Charismatic Renewal Changed Everything

John Maiden is a very good British scholar, whose new book strikes me as really...

February 08, 2023

The Nonsense of Nonviolence (King Legacy Pt. 2)

In the wake of the murder of Tyre Nichols and the continuing waves of violence...

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