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December 2022

December 22, 2022

The Prayer Against the Darkness

My new book is He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence: The Many Lives...

December 21, 2022

A Very Not-So-Merry Christmas: How Protestantism Nearly Killed St. Nick

We all give thanks that the excesses of the Reformation didn’t kill Christmas in the...

December 20, 2022

My Christmas Writing Montage

For the past three weeks I've been leading my Sunday School class through the history...

December 19, 2022

Issues in Transnational Denominational History: The Case of Baptists in Latin America

I have been writing a chapter on the history of Baptists in Latin America for...

December 16, 2022

Learning to Walk in the Dark

“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word...

December 15, 2022

Jesus at Hanukkah: A Storm is Coming

The feast of Hanukkah begins this year on the evening of Sunday, December 18. Although...

December 14, 2022

2022: My Year of Reading Promiscuously

Since my earliest memories, my life has been defined by books. I have always loved...

December 13, 2022

Liberal Arts, Piety, and the Past: Responding to James Diddams’ First Things Piece

James Diddams recently published a piece at First Things provocatively entitled "The Real Problem at...

December 12, 2022

Ukraine’s Greek Catholics

The war in Ukraine has called attention to the country’s religious life and its history....

December 09, 2022

Will the real Juan Diego please stand up? Europeanizing an indigenous saint

Today the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of San Juan Diego, the first indigenous saint...

December 08, 2022

My Latest Book! On “The Many Lives of Psalm 91”

I am delighted to announce the imminent publication of my new book! It is titled...

December 07, 2022

On Categorization: A Word on Emancipatory Maximalism

The discussion around Jay Green’s piece last week is beginning to die down and Beth...

December 06, 2022

The Next Generation of Complementarianism: A Response to Mike Winger

I only recently learned about Mike Winger. A friend alerted me that he had posted...

December 05, 2022

Reminders from Rev. Sherrod: A Tribute

As some of you may have heard, earlier this fall, the Rev. Charles Melvin Sherrod,...

December 02, 2022

A Panopticon for a Ruling Class in the Digital Wilderness

This past Monday John Fea’s (21K f.; Messiah University Professor; author of Believe Me; past...

December 01, 2022

Why the Pope is Dangerously Wrong About Russia and Ukraine

Pope Francis has recently issued statements about the Ukraine war that are so mind-bogglingly at...

November 2022

November 30, 2022

Can Pluralism Work in Christian Higher Education?

Last month I asked whether pluralism can work in American higher education. What are the...

November 29, 2022

Recovering Liberal Democratic Norms in Christian Politics: An Interview with Jay Green

I have becoming increasingly convinced that the preservation of a functioning democracy in which human...

November 28, 2022

The Christmas Movie We Need Right Now

Now that Thanksgiving is past and the holiday season has officially begun, I’m ready...

November 24, 2022

Advent, and the End Times

The season of Advent begins this year next Sunday, November 27. This is one of...

November 23, 2022

Ron Sider and the Fate of the Evangelical Left

My third--and final--post on the legacy of Ron Sider

November 22, 2022

Words that Matter: An Excerpt from The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England

My past caught up with me last week. I stood on the West Campus of...

November 18, 2022

When the Cholulteca Folded onto the Earth: Contested Commemorations of the 1519 Cholula Massacre

“Don’t believe those indios, Vero,” the Mexican scholar told me in Spanish as we walked...

November 17, 2022

How the Churches Forgot the Amalekites

I have been posting about the Bible's genocidal texts. In my experience, many Christians who...

November 16, 2022

Did Lydia Play a Role in Planting the Bithynian Church?

I am currently in the process of finalizing revisions of my book, Cultural Christians in...

November 15, 2022

Treating the Dead with Dignity and Honoring Your Fathers and Mothers

Last month, I enjoyed attending the Baylor Institute for the Study of Religion's virtual conference,...

November 14, 2022

Evangelical Missionaries and Racial Imagination: A Brief Example

A few weeks ago, I delivered the J.M. Dawson Fall Lecture at Baylor University titled...

November 11, 2022

Inquisitions, Witch Hunts, and Conspiracy Theories

Recently the Conference on Faith and History hosted a panel on witch hunts, both...

November 10, 2022

Jesus the Carpenter, and the Search for Biblical Words

If you are a serious qualified scholar of the New Testament, you can ignore this...

November 09, 2022

Gender, the Great Tradition, and Evangelical Memory

Today we welcome a guest contribution from Dr. Jacob Randolph. Jacob Randolph, Ph.D., is a...

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