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May 2021

May 05, 2021

René Padilla: Enfant Terrible

Padilla earned his reputation as an enfant terrible who showed no fear in challenging white...

May 04, 2021

The Bishop of the Resistance

Chris introduces us to a Lutheran pastor less famous than Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Niemöller,...

May 03, 2021

How Asian American Religious History Changes How We Write American Religious History

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and in a year when racism and violence...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan

Today we have a guest post concerning a topic that is near and dear to...

April 28, 2021

When to Give Thanks

It may seem strange to think about the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving in the springtime, but...

April 28, 2021

A Historian’s Spiritual Reading List

I have a cookie every night before bed. I'm not sure whether this is physically...

April 27, 2021

How Classics Liberated the Minds of the Oppressed

Guest blogger Anika Prather explains the liberating effects of the classics on Black leaders like...

April 26, 2021

Voices of the Voiceless

For a new book projective tentatively entitled “Unholy Wars: Secularist Violence in Modern History,” I...

April 23, 2021

Of Genes, Battle Axes, and How Cultures Spread

I have a long standing interest in archaeology, dating back to the late 1960s. I...

April 22, 2021

Unmaking Biblical Womanhood

It’s Beth Allison Barr week at The Anxious Bench, and for good reason. The Making...

April 21, 2021

Walter F. Mondale (1928-2021): The Private Faith of a Public Servant

Today Chris Gehrz and I are collaborating to talk about Vice President Walter F. Mondale,...

April 20, 2021

The Evangelical Baptists Who Made “Biblical Womanhood”… and Those Who Tried to Unmake It

Chris celebrates the release of Beth Barr's book on "biblical womanhood" by telling the story...

April 19, 2021

Books Against Books

Here is a question. What passages in the Bible are deliberately intended to target or...

April 16, 2021

Amazon, Wikipedia, and Scholarly Research

This post offers suggestions for beginning a research project of any kind, and particularly in...

April 15, 2021

The Cost of Staying Silent

It was more than a decade ago, but I still remember that moment vividly. It...

April 14, 2021

It’s A Small, Small (Complementarian) World

“Dr. Barr, I don’t know where to look?!” Twelfth-century columns soared high over our heads,...

April 13, 2021

The Conversion That Never Happened

Chris shares an outtake from his forthcoming religious biography of Charles Lindbergh. (Just be sure...

April 12, 2021

A Marginal Majority: Women, Gender, and a Re-imagining of Southern Baptists

Today is a guest post. My Baylor colleague Elizabeth Flowers has a new co-edited collection...

April 09, 2021

Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America

Today I welcome a guest blogpost from Crawford Gribben, who has published extensively on the...

April 07, 2021

Supposing Him to Be the Gardener

This is a lightly revised post from last summer, placed where it belongs, at Eastertide....

April 07, 2021

The Savage My Kinsman: Wheaton Wrestles with the Language of Mission

Wheaton College Wrestles with Its Discourse of Missions

April 06, 2021

Science as Faith: Arctic Martyrs and the Open Polar Sea

Chris explains how the tragic story of an Arctic expedition illustrates why, "for some Westerners...

April 05, 2021

Asian American Religious Institutions Are Targets of Racist Attacks – And Also Sites of Resistance

Last week, on one of the holiest days of the Christian year, over 120 families...

April 02, 2021

Holy Saturday and the Harrowing of Hell

Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, the Easter Triduum... but for much of Christian history,...

April 01, 2021

Peace Through Understanding: The Life of a Christian Scholar

I’ve written in this space from time to time on the subject of Christian scholarship,...

March 2021

March 31, 2021

Lessons in Leadership from the Long 2020

It’s been a long year. Literally. Historians divide eras by cultural moments rather than strict...

March 30, 2021

Finding Your Roots: The Poignant Power of Genealogy

Chris celebrates the PBS genealogy show, Finding Your Roots, whose host reminds us that the...

March 29, 2021

In Search of Christians and Nones

Tell me how you phrase the question and I will tell you the answer you...

March 27, 2021

“Praise the Lord and Pass the Ball”: Basketball and the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Oral Roberts University

Before the Oral Roberts University Golden Eagles play their Sweet Sixteen game against Arkansas, learn...

March 26, 2021

The Adventure of the Totally Cryptic Story

I have a dilemma. I want to rave about a literary work that depends upon...

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