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September 2021

September 01, 2021

Protestants and Immigration, Then and Now

White evangelicals don’t like immigrants or refugees. Instead, they love Trump, travel bans, and border...

September 01, 2021

Why Historians Need Feminism and Feminists Need History

Today I am so pleased to welcome Amy Achenbach to the Anxious Bench. Amy is...

August 2021

August 31, 2021

Fundamentalism and the Dynamics of Succession in Minneapolis

Recent events at Bethlehem Baptist Church — where John Piper's successor resigned this summer — and...

August 30, 2021

Ed Murrow’s Water Bottle, Or How Not To Use Films In Teaching History

In 2005, George Clooney starred in Good Night, and Good Luck, a decent film about...

August 28, 2021

“Here I am, send me” in American Military History

On Thursday, Pres. Joe Biden invoked Isaiah 6:8 in eulogizing American service members killed in Kabul,...

August 27, 2021

Teaching the Cold War: Some Alternative Films To Show

I have been posting about my forthcoming book on The Global History of the Cold...

August 26, 2021

Neither Democrat Nor Republican: The New Evangelical Nonpartisans

White evangelical politics in the United States has for many years been characterized primarily by...

August 25, 2021

Immigrant Strangers in Our Midst: An Interview with Ulrike Stockhausen

Until the 1980s, evangelicals didn’t distinguish between legal immigrants and refugees and “illegal” undocumented immigrants....

August 24, 2021

John Piper’s “Wishful Thinking” about Jonathan Edwards and Slavery

Jonathan Edwards owned slaves and defended slavery. Why does John Piper think it's alright to...

August 23, 2021

Don’t Turn (Refugees) Away

Chaotic scenes of people surrounding military aircraft and hoping desperately to be evacuated: this...

August 20, 2021

Saigon, Kabul, and the Myth of the Graveyard of Empires

Recently, I was one of several historians of the 1970s-1980s era interviewed by New York...

August 18, 2021

What Does It Mean to Be a Christian Historian?

What does it mean to be a Christian historian? I’ve been one for almost a...

August 18, 2021

Is it Time for Fundamentalism Again? A Review of Owen Strachan’s Christianity and Wokeness

It was the title that first caught my eye. Evangelical theologian Owen Strachan named his...

August 17, 2021

Why My New Book Is More Than *My* Work

Chris has a new book out today... but realized that "thinking of this book as...

August 16, 2021

Andrew Walls: The Most Important Scholar You Didn’t Know

This past week, Andrew Walls died, aged 93. As a pioneering scholar of Global/World Christianity,...

August 13, 2021

Writing The Cold War: What Surprised Me – Continued

I have described my forthcoming book on The Global History of the Cold War, and...

August 12, 2021

What Happened When I Taught Historical Thinking at Church

Guest blogger Jonathan Wilson suggests how historians can "help our fellow citizens" — including fellow church...

August 11, 2021

Who Will Be Saved? – The Question That Divides Evangelicals from Mainline Protestants

How can we tell whether a particular Christian is likely to feel more comfortable in...

August 10, 2021

The American Christians Who Couldn’t Worship in Their Own Language

When the United States entered World War I, reports Chris, it wasn't just German Americans...

August 09, 2021

Was Lenin the Buddha?

In the ebb and flow religious history, reformist movement are often necessary, especially perhaps in...

August 06, 2021

Writing The Cold War: What I Learned, and What Surprised Me

I am presently in the production stage of my new book on A History of...

August 04, 2021

Why Baylor Will Never Be Notre Dame: Ecclesiastical Polity and College Football

Hunter Hampton is Assistant Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University. Hunter earned...

August 04, 2021

Some Hope for Evangelicalism

Last January we spent two nights in a ghost town. Deep in West Texas, on...

August 03, 2021

The Olympics: Competition as Striving Together

Chris found it easy to forget that competition derives from a Latin term for "striving...

August 02, 2021

Teaching the Cold War: Was There Really a Red Scare?

I have been posting about my forthcoming book on the Global History of the Cold...

July 2021

July 30, 2021

Writing the Cold War: Globalizing the Eve of Destruction

I have been writing a book called The Global History of the Cold War, which...

July 29, 2021

Why One Ancient Megachurch Pastor Would Like You to Get the Vaccine

Today's post is another guest feature from my wife, Nadya Williams, professor of ancient history...

July 28, 2021

Innocent Readings of Evangelical History

I hate to come down hard on leaders trying to move their tradition away from...

July 27, 2021

Alvah Hovey and the Northern Baptists

Today I'm happy to welcome to the Bench Clay Sidenbender, a freelance journalist based in Edwardsburg, MI....

July 26, 2021

Religion, Race, and “Never Have I Ever” – A Roundtable on Season Two

After a painful and exhausting year that found Asian Americans reeling from a surge in...

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