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November 2022

November 08, 2022

Complementarian Theology and Sexual Abuse: My Updated Reflections

A shorter version of this was published last week with the Political Theology Network symposium...

November 07, 2022

The Other Evangelicals: An Interview with Dr. Isaac Sharp

Isaac, thank you for taking the time to talk with me today. It’s so good...

November 03, 2022

West Africa and the Future of Global Faith

The British Guardian just published a really excellent essay that should be required reading for...

November 02, 2022

What Meghan Markle Taught Me About History

Today we have the pleasure of having a guest contribution from Allison M. Brown. Allison M....

November 01, 2022

Black Subtext in Mr. Bojangles

Today we have the pleasure of having a guest contribution from Dr. Alicia Jackson. Dr....

October 2022

October 31, 2022

Cherokee Removal and the Stories We Tell

Today we have the pleasure of featuring a guest post from Andrew Michael Jones. Andrew...

October 28, 2022

Conjuring Power and Liberation from Enslavement in the British Colonies

In Hall's Wilmington Gazette newspaper issue of October 1798, Jinkin Avirett posted an advertisement for...

October 27, 2022

The Great Vampire War of the Enlightenment

If you must, you can read scary recent stories of ghosts and horrors for Halloween,...

October 26, 2022

Can Pluralism Work in American Higher Education?

In 2005, I entered Notre Dame as a wide-eyed young PhD student to study the...

October 25, 2022

In Search of an Evangelical Political Theology

Is there such a thing as an American evangelical political theology? Some pundits are convinced...

October 24, 2022

Faith, Family, and Filipino American Life: A Roundtable Discussion About the Film Easter Sunday

  Happy Filipino American History Month, everybody! In honor of this occasion, I’m doing the...

October 21, 2022

A Primer on Racial Violence

Disclaimer: I want to offer a short warning which could hypothetically go alongside most of...

October 20, 2022

At Sixes and Sevens: How Volcanic Disasters Destroy Societies, and Drive Religious Change

This is me making a mea culpa, and actually profiting from the process. I made...

October 19, 2022

Ron Sider and the Chicago Declaration

“Now this is the real McCoy, rooted in deep personal experience! … I’ve always suspected...

October 18, 2022

Frightening Figures: Sacrilegious Women and Dancing Witches

Today I am so pleased to welcome back to Lynneth Miller Renberg to the Anxious...

October 17, 2022

Evangélico Coloniality and the Continuing Politics of Translation

In my last post, I mentioned that I would write about the embattled evangélicos who...

October 14, 2022

Juan Diego and the Indigenous Engineers of Mexico-Tenochtitlan

As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, I am currently writing a children’s chapter book...

October 13, 2022

The Great War of (Christian) Africa

At this moment, in late 2022, where in the world is the most destructive war...

October 12, 2022

History at Home: Historians and Homeschooling

“Most mornings during the school year, after the breakfast dishes have been put away, the...

October 11, 2022

The Silo of White Evangelical Single-Consciousness

W. E. B. Du Bois conveyed the notion of double-consciousness in his essay “Of Our...

October 10, 2022

9/11 and the Liberal Arts

[This past September 11, I was asked by a new interfaith center on Valparaiso University’s...

October 07, 2022

Royalty Chic and the Upside Down Kingdom

  On a recent trip to New York City to binge on musical theater, my...

October 06, 2022

A Forgotten Hatred: Why Don’t We Study Anti-Protestantism?

Last time, I discussed an artistic representation of the Catholic Church overthrowing the evil heresy...

October 05, 2022

Liberation Theology for White People: The Preferential Option for Moore

I offer a brief reflection today and one that is perhaps more theological than my...

October 04, 2022

A Reflection on Why (Some?) Women Flourish in Complementarian Spaces

I haven’t made it to the patriarchal bargain yet. We’ll save that for my first...

October 03, 2022

Listening to George Kelsey: Racism as Idolatry

In the recent scholarly debate over presentism, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, in conversation with Tera Hunter and...

September 2022

September 30, 2022

History, Royalty Chic, and the Upside Down Kingdom

On a recent trip to New York City to binge on musical theater, my companion...

September 29, 2022

Religion Overthrows Heresy: The Art of Anti-Protestantism

I am thinking of founding a Museum of Religiously Incorrect Art. We presently live in...

September 28, 2022

Recent Books on Women, Gender, and Sex in American Religious History, Part 2

This semester I am teaching one of my favorite courses: "Women, Gender, and Sex in...

September 27, 2022

The Southernization of American Evangelicalism (and American Christianity)

Fifty percent of all people in the United States who attend church at least once...

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