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June 2021

June 14, 2021

The Faiths of Others

I am very pleased to announce that a book that I have worked on for...

June 14, 2021

America’s Climate Refugees

In coming decades, we are going to hear a great deal about climate refugees, those...

June 11, 2021

Overrun with Messiahs: The Great (Esoteric) Awakening of the 1920s

Chris Gehrz just did a blogpost that I found extremely rewarding, under the surprising title...

June 10, 2021

Fires of Philadelphia: Religion and Mob Violence, 1844

Zachary Schrag is Professor of History at George Mason University. He is the author of...

June 09, 2021

The 2021 SBC and the Cost of (Not) Writing The Making of Biblical Womanhood

It sat at the end of our counter for almost a week. Beginning of school...

June 08, 2021

The Religious History of Extraterrestrial Life

Two-thirds of Americans now think that intelligent life may exist on other planets. It's an...

June 07, 2021

The Forgotten Baby Bust

I have been posting about the links between demographic change and religion, of fertility and...

June 04, 2021

The Amulet’s (Weird) Tale

Scholars speak of micro-histories, very specific and local instances that potentially reveal a much larger...

June 03, 2021

Pro-Life Christians Expect the Supreme Court to Save Unborn Lives, but Maybe Poverty Relief Would Be a Better Place to Start

The news that the Supreme Court has recently agreed to review an abortion case for...

June 02, 2021

Unexpected Sites of Christian Pacifism: Mennocostal Edition

Can Pentecostal spirituality and Mennonite peace move together as a great river flowing with justice...

June 01, 2021

The Calling of the Christian College

Chris argues that Christian higher education is vocational: not because it prepares students for particular...

May 2021

May 31, 2021

The “Spirit of Sacrifice” and Remembering Those Lost in the Battle Against Covid-19

Last week, a friend of mine recounted her experience working as a physician in New...

May 28, 2021

The Long Slide and the Revolution in Aging

A story in the New York Times just addressed one of the most significant developments...

May 27, 2021

The American Experience of Billy Graham

PBS recently aired an American Experience documentary about the life of Billy Graham. The subject of...

May 26, 2021

Two Questions for Complementarians (and One for Egalitarians)

I am weirdly interested in who becomes the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention...

May 25, 2021

The Problem of “Practical Atheism”

It will sound strange coming from a Christian historian writing at Patheos’ Evangelical channel, but......

May 24, 2021

Don’t Tread on Me!

Sometimes I post blogs because I have things to share, and on occasion, I am...

May 21, 2021

The Lives and Times of Psalm 91

My present book project is easy enough to describe. I am writing a “biography” of...

May 20, 2021

All Welcome? Same-Sex Couples & Faith-Based Adoption Agencies

Today's Anxious Bench post is written by two of my colleagues at Calvin University, Elisha...

May 19, 2021

Israel and Immigration: A Christian Reflection on the Consequences of Past Sins

Today’s post is a guest contribution from Dr. Nadya Williams, a professor of history at...

May 18, 2021

Abortion and The Politics of the Cross

A paragraph about abortion in his new book made Chris think of a chapter about...

May 17, 2021

Making Meaning on a College Campus

My middle-school-aged son once described what I do teaching honors’ college classes as sitting around...

May 15, 2021

A Letter about COVID to My Future Self

At the end of a week that feels like a turning point, Chris leaves some...

May 14, 2021

Of Liturgy, Place, and Presence

I recently posted about the character and drawback of virtual religion, and of what we lose...

May 13, 2021

John C. Calhoun: American Heretic

How would you like to have a President Trump and a President Biden at the...

May 12, 2021

The Scandal of Patriarchy in My Evangelical Mind

Today we welcome Joey Cochran to the Anxious Bench. Joey recently earned his Ph.D. from Trinity...

May 11, 2021

Not So Groovy, Baby: How Evangelical Sex Advice Got Stuck in the 1970s

"Rather than evolving its understanding of female sexuality," argues guest-blogger Sheila Wray Gregoire, "the evangelical...

May 10, 2021

Religion’s Sudden Decline

Since 2007, the United States has “showed the largest shift of any country away from...

May 07, 2021

Real Presence and Virtual Religion

I don’t know where I am. That might sound like a desperate confession by an...

May 06, 2021

Race and Liberalism in Dr. Seuss

When Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that six books written by the late bestselling children’s author...

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