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March 2021

March 25, 2021

White Evangelical Racism

Anthea Butler’s White Evangelical Racism is a tough, hard-hitting book. She pulls no punches. There’s...

March 24, 2021

Will Reformed Evangelicalism Divide Over Racial Politics? The 19th-Century Stone-Campbell Movement Offers a Clue

Is the theologically conservative Reformed wing of evangelicalism going to permanently divide over race and...

March 23, 2021

The Realignment of American Christianity

Why a minor detail in the announcement of Beth Moore leaving the Southern Baptist Convention...

March 22, 2021

For God So Loved the World He Gave Us Sundried Tomatoes

God wants you to be temperate but could not possibly expect you to be svelte....

March 20, 2021

The Religious History of March Madness

Wondering how unusual it is that this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament includes colleges and...

March 19, 2021

Blessing Sin and Losing Catholics

This week, Pope Francis approved a document saying that that Catholic priests were not allowed...

March 18, 2021

#LeaveLOUD and the Evangelical Reckoning

Earlier this month, Jemar Tisby shared his story of leaving white evangelical spaces with the...

March 17, 2021

The Making of Biblical Womanhood: The Introduction

In less than 5 weeks, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women...

March 16, 2021

Am I a Christian Minister?

Are Christian college professors also Christian ministers? Chris wrestles with questions at the heart of...

March 15, 2021

Remembering Patrick

The St. Patrick’s Day celebrations this year will be another casualty of the coronavirus pandemic....

March 12, 2021

Decline, Fall, Victory, and Other Cold War Myths

How you phrase a question goes a long way to determining the answer. That comment...

March 11, 2021

Christian Citizenship in Black and White

Today we welcome Elizabeth Jemison to the Anxious Bench. She is Assistant Professor of Religion at...

March 10, 2021

The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America

Along the way, Griffith pauses this narrative to make an important point: that it didn’t...

March 09, 2021

The Importance of Beth Moore in Recent American Religious History

As news breaks that Beth Moore is breaking with the Southern Baptist Convention, Chris looks...

March 09, 2021

The Hundred Million: Some History of “Religious Nones”

To my non-expert ears, one of the most persistent themes sounding in American religious history...

March 08, 2021

How the Pandemic Made Me a Better Scholar

Amid the onslaught of horrifying news about the winter surge in California, one story weighs...

March 05, 2021

Go Not Into The Way Of The Gentiles

Some parts of the Bible raise a lot of questions and debates, and indeed are...

March 04, 2021

The Surprising, Spiritual Side of Margaret Mead

Today we welcome Elesha Coffman back to the Anxious Bench. Elesha is associate professor of...

March 03, 2021

Reading Women Authors on the History of Science

I wrote last month about my new course on the United States in Global Perspective...

March 02, 2021

History as a Lenten Discipline

As he both teaches a class on World War II and observes the season of...

March 01, 2021

That’ll Be The Day That I Die

March 1 is the feast of David, the early medieval bishop and missionary who became...

February 2021

February 26, 2021

The New American Judaism, and Christianity

I recently read a column that impressed me, in a source that Anxious Bench readers...

February 25, 2021

Evangelicalism as Bad Religion

What’s the most disliked religion in the contemporary United States? Until recently, “Islam” would have...

February 24, 2021

The Sanctifying Value of Staying in the Same Academic Job for Decades

My Ph.D. dissertation advisor taught at Brown University for thirty-three years. Two of the other...

February 23, 2021

A Lenten meditation on the death of Rush Limbaugh

Today we are pleased to welcome former Anxious Bench blogger Tim Gloege back to...

February 22, 2021

An Obscure Centenary

Readers of the New York Times were greeted yesterday with a full-page paid advertisement, notifying...

February 19, 2021

Teaching Christian History: The Missing 75 Percent

Through the years, I have often taught courses on Christian history, and I have always...

February 18, 2021

Discipline and Punish: A Guide to Power in American Evangelicalism

“Are you going rogue?” The question startled me. It had come from a professor at...

February 17, 2021

What Evangelicals Have Never Been Taught….about Paul

"Why do you think that is?" he asked. The steady stream of hungry students forked...

February 16, 2021

God’s Cold Warrior

Miles Mullin reviews John Wilsey's new religious biography of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster...

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