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October 2021

October 14, 2021

Deconstructing the ESV: A Historian’s Response to Kevin DeYoung

I didn't mean to write this post. I'm still undecided what purpose a response to Kevin...

October 13, 2021

Listening to Women Created the Modern Southern Baptist Convention. Listening Again May Have Saved It.

On October 5, 2021 the Southern Baptist Convention did something really unusual. Its Executive Committee...

October 12, 2021

What If I’m Wrong about Miraculous Healing?

Chris reexamines his own skepticism about miraculous healing — and looks back to the relationship between...

October 11, 2021

Syria Crucified

Zachary (Zac) Wingerd is a colleague of mine in the History Department at Baylor University....

October 08, 2021

How a Warm Climate Made the Medieval Christian World

My most recent book, Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval,...

October 07, 2021

The “histories” of St. Francis in Mexico

Today we are so pleased to welcome a guest post by Verónica Gutiérrez, associate professor...

October 06, 2021

Created for Work? The Cost of Leisure and the Privilege of Work in Antiquity and Today

The Aegean beach vacation seemed perfect at first, a welcome respite, a break from the...

October 05, 2021

The Turner Library

Chris pays tribute to Anxious Bench co-founder John Turner, who retired from our blog last...

October 04, 2021

An Unapologetic Defense of Liberal Education

What follows is a book review of Zena Hitz's Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures...

October 01, 2021

The Cold War Was My Life

It’s imminent. My Global History of the Cold War 1945-1991 will be out from Palgrave...

September 2021

September 29, 2021

The Future of Liberal Mormonism

This is my final regular post for the Anxious Bench after nine years on its roster of...

September 29, 2021

What I Learned from a Good Academic Book Review: A (sort-of) Response to Kevin DeYoung

"This is both an important and a frustrating book." It was 2009 when I read...

September 28, 2021

The History of Gender Gaps at One Christian University

Throughout American higher education, women now account for at least 60% of enrollment. The gender...

September 27, 2021

Christians, Liable to Leak: Or, Why Indexing Matters

Indexes have been much in my mind of late. If you ever write or publish...

September 24, 2021

The Resurrection of Johnny Rotten

Angelus is the respected news magazine of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Los Angeles, and...

September 23, 2021

What We Can Learn from Pastors Who Were Silent about Lynching

As I was preparing last week to lead a graduate seminar discussion of Amy Louise...

September 22, 2021

The 2020 Census, Immigration, and the Future of American Evangelicalism

A couple of years ago on a Sunday morning, I landed at Logan Airport and...

September 21, 2021

Church, Government, and Business: Can the Christian University Serve All Three?

If the Christian university does serve as an instrument meeting the needs of external constituents...

September 20, 2021

Refugees and the Enduring Cruelty of the War on Terror, Twenty Years Later

Twenty years ago today, while Americans cleaned up the wreckage of the September 11 attacks,...

September 17, 2021

Bitter Words and Inspired Scriptures

My present work concerns one particular psalm, namely 91, and the astonishingly large impact it...

September 16, 2021

Meatpacking America

Sometimes it seems that Americans are unusually good at hating each other. Red/blue, secular/evangelical, vaxxed

September 15, 2021

Brief Lives and Religious Satire

Many years ago, I saw the superb play Brief Lives, which led me promptly to...

September 14, 2021

The Instrumental Christian University

Do Christian colleges offer a liberal or instrumental model of education? At his institution, Chris...

September 13, 2021

Colonial America’s Climate Crisis

In some periods in history, events and trends move at a rocket sled pace, when...

September 10, 2021

Teaching the Cold War Through Songs and Music

I have been posting about the Cold War as a subject for writing and especially...

September 09, 2021

The Role of Women in Pentecostalism

Guest blogger Joy Qualls considers the role of women in her Pentecostal denomination, past and...

September 08, 2021

When the Empire Doesn’t Strike Back, but Leaves Instead: Ethical Questions from the Roman Empire for the US Departure from Afghanistan

As the US left Afghanistan last month after a twenty-year occupation, “marking the end of...

September 07, 2021

Persevere: A Christian College Turns 150

As the Christian university where he teaches turns 150 years old, Chris reflects that "if...

September 06, 2021

Piety and Public Health in Early America

Once upon a time in the City of Brotherly Love, a Lutheran minister, led by...

September 03, 2021

The Other September 11

Around the world, the stunning violence of September 11 cast a long shadow over the...

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