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July 2021

July 23, 2021

St. Francis and the Climate Apocalypse

It would be hard to find a more universally popular figure than Francis of Assisi....

July 21, 2021

The University of Iowa’s Losing Fight against InterVarsity

What exactly does the University of Iowa have against student religious groups? It’s hard to...

July 21, 2021

What I Learned From Southern Baptist Women’s Ministries

I spent last week researching in the Southern Baptist Convention archives, located within the denomination’s...

July 20, 2021

“Test Everything”: The Life and Theology of Clarence Bass

Chris pays tribute to theologian Clarence Bass, who died earlier this month at age 98.

July 19, 2021

Saint Telemachus and the Volcano

Through most of human history, people interpreted climate events and natural disasters as signs of...

July 16, 2021

The Other 1960s: Remembering the Red Future

As usual, I have a couple of writing projects on the go at any given...

July 15, 2021

Why I’m (Still) Excited to Teach at a Christian College

In which Chris takes a shot at getting some new Christian college students as excited...

July 14, 2021

What Evangelicals Just Don’t Know About Bible Translations

Late in 1999, while the world panicked about Y2K (remember that?), I ordered a new...

July 13, 2021

What Does It Mean to Follow Jesus?

What does it mean to follow Jesus? How do different Christian traditions answer this question?...

July 12, 2021

Mail-Order Moral Formation

By now, summer might be testing limits of our altruism to our kids, let alone...

July 09, 2021

What if the Nones Really Do Herald the Decline of Religion?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the number of Americans who identify with Christianity...

July 07, 2021

Religion and the American Revolution

Kate Carté is Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University. She's here to discuss...

July 07, 2021

Is There a Theological Reason for White Evangelical Racism?

White evangelicals are less likely than any other religious or demographic group in the United...

July 06, 2021

The Good Shepherd

Not Jesus, but the novel by C.S. Forester that inspired a Tom Hanks WWII movie...

July 05, 2021

Climate Disasters and the Making of Protestant Europe

I have argued that transformational eras of religious change are often rooted in climate-driven crises,...

July 02, 2021

The Pope, the Emperor, and the Venice Myth

I sometimes fantasize about writing a book called Famous Moments in Church History That Never...

July 01, 2021

Evangelical Social Concern May Depend on Recovering a Theology of the Church

Why have white evangelicals had a hard time embracing the call for social justice? In...

June 2021

June 30, 2021

Rainn Wilson, Dwight Schrute, and the Search for Meaning in Postmodern America

"I was disenchanted with things that were organized," says Wilson.

June 29, 2021

Evangelicals and the Death Penalty

Forty-nine years ago today, the Supreme Court of the United States announced its decision in...

June 28, 2021

“We’re Only Reached Out to in Times of Tragedy”: Sikh Americans and the Telling of U.S. Religious History

In April, a month after the deadly shooting in Atlanta, eight people were gunned down...

June 25, 2021

The Great Drying, or How Climate Drives Religious Revolutions

I have written a good deal in recent years about the impact of climate on...

June 23, 2021

Cru, CRT, and the History of American Evangelicalism

“The debate over critical race theory,” reported Christianity Today a few weeks ago, “has landed...

June 23, 2021

Eucatastrophe in American Evangelicalism

To be honest, I did not think the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting was going...

June 22, 2021

Americans Should Be Comfortable with Historical Complexity, Not Afraid of It

Whether U.S. history involves European encounters with Native Americans or enslavement of Africans, Chris urges...

June 21, 2021

Population Explosions and Religious Revolutions: The Case of Latin America

I have posted quite a bit on the link between religion and demography. Obviously I...

June 19, 2021

Juneteenth: A Holiday “Tailor-Made for History”

On a holiday that one historian says is "tailor-made for history," Chris suggests some ways...

June 18, 2021

How a Climate Disaster Reshaped the World’s Great Religions

Throughout history, climate-driven disasters have a driven sudden and revolutionary change in human societies, transforming...

June 17, 2021

A Sinking Ship or Weathering the Storm: #SBC21 in 21 Tweets

This week's Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting has been widely viewed as a moment of...

June 16, 2021

Northern Baptists (Not Just the Southern Baptist Convention) Define American Evangelicalism

What would American evangelicalism look like if the southernization of American evangelicalism had never happened,...

June 15, 2021

The Half-Year in Review

Almost halfway through another tumultous year, Chris reveals what's been most popular so far in...

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