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February 2022

February 16, 2022

“She seems to think Black history is American history”: Bettye Collier-Thomas and the Place of African American Women in U.S. History

Today we welcome David Nanninga to the Anxious Bench. David is a first year Masters...

February 15, 2022

The Time Christians Tried to Boycott the Olympics

“Boycott China’s Winter Olympics?”, asked a Christianity Today headline last week. “Many American Christians Agree.”...

February 14, 2022

Empires, Migration, Faith, and Biscuits

Migration is a principal force driving religious change and growth, and I have posted on...

February 11, 2022

Lessons From a Church’s Sidewalk: Migrant Experiences and White Evangelical Neighbors

A guest post today from a rising scholar whom I admire, namely João Chaves. Here...

February 10, 2022

Imperial Cities

Empires shape religions, whether by spreading faiths, or particular forms of belief and practice. Much...

February 09, 2022

Who Would Jesus Bomb?

On the radical roots of WWJD

February 08, 2022

Evangelicals Who Love Social Justice but Hate Federal Social Programs

Many conservative white evangelicals are now embracing social justice causes that are often associated with...

February 07, 2022

The Effort to Help Afghan Evacuees Has Only Just Begun. Will Religious Groups Stick With It?

The United States has made real progress in aiding the approximately 80,000 Afghans evacuated...

February 04, 2022

How Supreme Court Justices Do (and Don’t) Represent America

In the coming months, we are going to be hearing a great deal about the...

February 03, 2022

Compulsion, Toleration, and African Religions in the New World

Empires draw the maps of great religions. In the case of Christianity, so much is...

February 02, 2022

Deeply Good People on Twitter

Lately, social media—particularly Christian social media—has been depressing me. There’s just so much arguing and...

February 01, 2022

“Female Leadership Has Been a Consistent Part of Baptist History”: A Northern Example

Chris tells the story of Ethel Ruff, the first — and, in her lifetime, only — woman...

January 2022

January 31, 2022

How Religions Go Global

Empires give particular religions a vastly greater geographical spread than they might otherwise have had,...

January 28, 2022

At Long Last… Previewing the 2022 Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History

Chris previews the long-postponed next meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, coming to...

January 27, 2022

Languages of Faith and Empire

I have been writing about how empires spread and shape religions. The most obvious feature...

January 26, 2022

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022: Historical and Theological Reflections

On January 27, 1945, the Red Army arrived in the Polish town of Auschwitz, in...

January 25, 2022

Ch-Ch-Changes

I'll write a more traditional post later in the week, but today let me put...

January 24, 2022

The Best Study-Abroad Program in Christian Higher-Ed

I have recently completed teaching a study-abroad course with students from both Gordon College (where...

January 21, 2022

Of Empires, Faiths, and Unintended Consequences

I am currently exploring the role of empires in shaping religion and religions worldwide, and...

January 20, 2022

A Farewell Post

This is my last post as a regular contributor to the Anxious Bench. If I’m...

January 19, 2022

What I Learned from Designing Women (a.k.a. A Guide for Responding to Complementarians)

It was early Spring 2021. I picked up an advance reader copy (ARC) of The...

January 18, 2022

“Everything You Know about Prohibition Is Wrong”

A new book argues that we have misunderstood prohibition, casting it as a global movement...

January 17, 2022

What Empires Do

I have been talking about the very broad themes that unite empires throughout history. I’ll...

January 14, 2022

What Is An Empire?

I am currently working on the relationship between empires and the emergence and development of...

January 13, 2022

Did the Fundamentalists Win? A Centennial Retrospective

This year marks the centennial anniversary of one of the most famous sermons from the...

January 12, 2022

Evangelical Colorblindness

On why the 1990s racial reconciliation moment was less groundbreaking than it appeared to some...

January 11, 2022

Why I’m Still a Protestant

According to a new survey, the term Protestant is becoming much less common among younger...

January 10, 2022

Corinne Tan Is Great, but American Girl Needs Stories about Asian Americans in the Past, Too

American Girl recently announced its newest doll of the year: Corinne Tan, a Chinese American...

January 07, 2022

Empires and the Making of Religions

Over the next few columns, I am going to be talking about a large topic,...

January 06, 2022

Immigration and the American Church: A Remix

Today we're honored to welcome to the Bench Jehu J. Hanciles, D.W. & Ruth Brooks...

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