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August 2022

August 17, 2022

Exhibiting Evangelicalism: An Interview with Devin Manzullo-Thomas

I’m pleased to welcome Devin Manzullo-Thomas to the Anxious Bench. He is assistant professor of...

August 16, 2022

Down with the Patriarchy! Remembering the Medieval Mary Magdalene

“Where does it say that?” he asked. I handed him my iPad. We stood on...

August 15, 2022

These Are The Ways The World Ends

This blogpost concerns the apocalyptic crises that periodically afflict the world. I choose that A-word...

August 12, 2022

A Latin American Historian’s Musings on Classical Education and Scholarship

I am leaving Academia for homeschooling. There. I said it. In three days, I am...

August 11, 2022

Welcome Veronica Gutierrez to the Anxious Bench

I have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Veronica Gutierrez as a new regular contributor to...

August 11, 2022

Jesus, Genocide, and the Canaanites

I have been writing about the alarming Bible passages in which God commands the destruction...

August 10, 2022

The Roman Bathsheba: A Narrative Without God

The story sounds familiar in some respects. A member of the royal family, enthralled with...

August 09, 2022

I’m Sorry, But You’ve Been Canceled

George Whitefield canceled John Tillotson. Tillotson was one of the most influential ecclesial figures during...

August 08, 2022

Another Piece on Albania

If the invasion of Ukraine at the instigation of a former KGB agent were not...

August 05, 2022

Hopeful Apocalypse

“My people are an apocalyptic people. We have resources to help you prepare for the...

August 04, 2022

Welcome Lisa Clark Diller to the Anxious Bench

I have the pleasure to welcome another new regular contributor to the Anxious Bench, Lisa...

August 04, 2022

Show Them No Mercy: The Bible and Genocide

And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee;...

August 03, 2022

Is There Such a Thing … ?

If there is one thing that has been drilled into my mind as a historian,...

August 02, 2022

Death to the Patriarchy! The Feminine Face of God

I honestly couldn’t decide what to write for today. Should I tackle Kevin DeYoung’s Desiring...

August 01, 2022

Signs, Wonders, and the Making of Religious History

If you work on any historical era before quite modern times, you soon get used...

July 2022

July 29, 2022

Remembering the Regress of a Righteous Pilgrim of Color | Phillis Wheatley (1753–84)

Those who are righteous will be long remembered… Their good deeds will be remembered forever....

July 28, 2022

Climate Change, Weather Disasters, and Crying Wolf

I firmly believe that the climate is changing, the world is warming in response to...

July 27, 2022

“Our Protest Here is in Consequence of the Protest of Luther”: Martin Luther in First-Wave Feminism

I am delighted to welcome Sam Young back to the Anxious Bench for more of...

July 26, 2022

The White Southern Protestants Who No Longer Attend Church

What happens to American politics and culture when white southerners in the Bible belt quit...

July 25, 2022

How Have Asian American Christians Responded to Anti-Asian Racism?

Last week the advocacy organization Stop AAPI Hate issued its newest report about anti-Asian racism...

July 22, 2022

“But What Do I Do?” : On Race and Political Economy

Today we welcome the Reverend Doctor Malcolm Foley with his inaugural contribution as a regular...

July 21, 2022

Welcome Malcolm Foley to the Anxious Bench

Over the course of this coming fall, you will see new faces join the "Bench."...

July 21, 2022

Creating the Myth of Mary Magdalene

Tomorrow, July 22, celebrates St. Mary Magdalene, a figure who in modern times has become...

July 20, 2022

Blaming the Victim: Billy Sunday and Male Power

How evangelicals abet a culture of masculine aggression

July 19, 2022

Forgetting Our Medieval History: The Holy Women of Liége

I'm so pleased to welcome Katherine Goodwin back to The Anxious Bench. Katherine is. PhD...

July 18, 2022

Gospels That Were Lost, And Some That Were Not Lost At All

My current work on icons and iconoclasm has reacquainted me with an old friend, namely...

July 14, 2022

Image Breaking and Protestant Origins

Some years ago, James Noyes published his book The Politics of Iconoclasm: Religion, Violence and...

July 13, 2022

The Virtues Have Been Canceled: Life in a Post-Virtue World

Forty-one years ago, Alasdair MacIntyre published his prophetic After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory....

July 12, 2022

The Biblical Potency, Cultural Fluency, and Fluidity of Pilgrim History

My mother nurtured the vital habit of literacy in me from an early age. She...

July 07, 2022

Of Image Breakers, Snake Handlers, and the Art of Naming

If you get to name a controversy, then your side is well on the way...

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