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November 2021

November 24, 2021

It’s a Small, Small Complementarian World Revisited

My daughter told a joke this week. "What do you call a priest who becomes...

November 23, 2021

Human Rights and the “Surprising Greatness” of a Born-Again President

Two recent biographers argue that Jimmy Carter was actually a significant U.S. president, in part...

November 22, 2021

1709: Prophecy, Enthusiasm, and Religious Crisis

One of the greatest popular culture events in Early Modern London was Bartholomew Fair, a...

November 19, 2021

1709: How a Climate Crisis Almost Drove England to Religious Civil War

Last time, I talked about the overwhelming climate shock that befell Europe in the year...

November 18, 2021

Biblical Authority amidst American Christian Division: From the Civil War to the Present

Supposedly, the split among American evangelical Protestants over slavery in the Civil War era reduced...

November 17, 2021

The 2020 Census and Evangelical Immigration, Part II

The jarring result, after centuries of Christian expansion to the East, is a burgeoning phenomenon...

November 16, 2021

Do Evangelical Churches Have a Catechesis Problem?

Why Chris thinks that historians have a role to play in improving evangelical catechesis — the...

November 15, 2021

Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism: An Interview with Jonathan Tran

Recent acts of violence and racism – most notably, the murders of George Floyd...

November 12, 2021

1709 and the End of the World

My latest book is Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval....

November 11, 2021

Finding the Historical Roots of Patriarchy: Gerda Lerner and the Power of Women’s History

Today I am so pleased to welcome Katherine Goodwin to The Anxious Bench. Katherine is...

November 10, 2021

Christian Scholarship: Metaphysical or Ethical?

A few years ago I was put in charge of our department’s introductory course for...

November 09, 2021

“God’s Time”: The Religious History of Daylight Saving

As usual, I celebrated the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST) this past weekend by...

November 08, 2021

Melania, The Christian Queen of the Mongols

Of the many churches in the Byzantine capital of Constantinople, only one retained its Orthodox...

November 05, 2021

The Forgotten Christian Queens Who Ruled (Much of) The World

My Baylor colleague and friend Beth Barr writes regularly about the critical importance of women...

November 04, 2021

Deconstructing the Complementarian Church History Narrative: A (Final) Response to Kevin DeYoung

“On the road from Galway to the Cliffs of Moher on the west coast of...

November 03, 2021

How (Not) to Drive Up the National Birthrate: A Cautionary Tale from the Roman World, and an Under-Explored Pro-Life Answer

It had been a twenty year stretch of economic and political disquiet. Not surprisingly, perhaps,...

November 02, 2021

A Day to Vote for Democracy

While off-year elections like today's are normally the domain of school boards, sheriff’s offices, and...

November 01, 2021

The Boy who Missed the Circus

On July 6, 1944, exactly a month after the Allies' D-day landing at Normandy, the...

October 2021

October 30, 2021

Reading All Hallows on All Hallows Eve

I have a strictly seasonal reading recommendation, and one that is highly appropriate for the...

October 29, 2021

Why “The Wailing” is the Perfect Halloween Film

As a devout Halloweenie, I regard it as my fundamental duty to recommend at least...

October 28, 2021

The Haunting of Dorothy Scarborough: A Texas Woman’s Ghost Story

This is one of my favorite posts from my Anxious Bench archives. It is the...

October 27, 2021

Fearing the Witch: Margaret Hamilton, Fred Rogers, and Brian Levack’s The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe

Today I am so pleased to welcome David Drake Criscione to the Bench. David is...

October 26, 2021

The Religious History of Medical Devices

Chris tells the story of Earl Bakken, the Lutheran engineer whose work on the pacemaker...

October 25, 2021

Dragons, Jackals, and Bible Translators

I have posted a few times on issues of translating the Bible, and how they...

October 22, 2021

The Satyr Shall Cry To His Fellow: Bible Translation and Weird Fiction

Today’s post concerns two topics of long-standing interest to me, and how – very oddly...

October 21, 2021

Can Northern Evangelical Institutions Survive Evangelicalism’s Southernization?

“Evangelical,” the director of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Christian Liberty Commission said in 1976, was...

October 20, 2021

A Tribute to Sojourners Magazine on Its Fiftieth Birthday

The magazine has consistently encouraged its readers to think better, pray harder, and integrate spiritual...

October 19, 2021

“Evangelical”: Past, Present, and Future

What does it mean to be "evangelical"? Is that term still useful? Chris reports on...

October 18, 2021

American Religion Beyond the Synagogue, Church, and Temple

In her fascinating book, Beyond the Synagogue, Rachel Gross describes a wide range of activities...

October 15, 2021

The Death Of Christian Ireland

The excellent scholar Crawford Gribben has an ambitious new book out on The Rise and...

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