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January 2021

January 07, 2021

Pastors as Politicians: A Brief History

Thanks to Tuesday's night election, Raphael Warnock will become not only the first Black senator...

January 07, 2021

Jemar Tisby’s How to Fight Racism

Jemar Tisby has a new book out this week, How to Fight Racism. Is it...

January 06, 2021

Conservative Men and Women Together? Two Books on Evangelicals and Politics

I ended my Baylor graduate course last semester with a one-two punch of books on...

January 05, 2021

Is My Biography of Charles Lindbergh Actually an Autobiography of Chris Gehrz?

“All my writing—and yours,” claimed one composition instructor, “is autobiography.” So I've often wondered the...

January 04, 2021

Science is Real, Sort of

You have undoubtedly seen yard signs like this around the place. The sentiments listed vary...

January 01, 2021

How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Revolutions

I am happy to announce my forthcoming book, due out from Oxford University Press this...

December 2020

December 31, 2020

On 2020 Hypocrisy

"Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men," Jesus condemned the scribes and the...

December 30, 2020

I’m Not Leaving Evangelicalism, Even with Its Unfortunate Political Choices

During the final weeks of this year of extreme partisan polarization, a few more of...

December 29, 2020

2020: Epidemics, Evangelicals, and Everything Else

Before we all say good riddance to 2020, Chris reveals our most popular posts and...

December 28, 2020

Religion and Violence: A Book Review

Mark Juergensmeyer, God at War: A Meditation on Religion and Warfare. Oxford University Press, 2020....

December 25, 2020

Katherine Anne Porter, Sam Peckinpah, and the Swallow’s Flight

Christmas is a time to look back on the year almost passed by, and the...

December 24, 2020

On Pandemic Christmas Eve

For many of us, this is a Christmas without family celebrations, mall Santas, rousing performances...

December 23, 2020

The Christmas Beginning of Making Biblical Womanhood

On December 14, 2016, I published this post as The Peace of Christmas During the...

December 23, 2020

God’s Christmas Gift To Women, Revised

One year ago, in my post God's Christmas Gift to Women, I reflected on how...

December 22, 2020

The Christian Eyewitnesses to Hiroshima

While less than 1% of the Japanese population followed Christ when John Hersey's account of...

December 21, 2020

Reading Churches and Reading American History

This is another in my posts on “reading” churches and their denominations to find what...

December 18, 2020

Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism. And Rabbits.

Through the years, I have posted repeatedly at this site on religious images in art,...

December 17, 2020

God’s Law and Order: A Conversation with Aaron Griffith

Aaron Griffith is assistant professor of history at Sattler College and the author of God's Law and...

December 16, 2020

Brown Church

As the “Make America Great Again” movement demonstrates, the need for resistance remains.

December 15, 2020

Christmas during a Pandemic: The United States in December 1918

How do we celebrate Christmas during a pandemic? Chris looks back to December 1918, when...

December 14, 2020

I’m Dreaming of an Asian American Christmas

When Irving Berlin wrote that he was “dreaming of a white Christmas,” he was writing...

December 11, 2020

QAnon: Science Fiction and Menaced Children

I have been posting about how some religious movements and “cults” show a strong overlap...

December 10, 2020

Confronting Toxic Christianity

The latest scandal to rock American evangelicalism is more of the same but with a...

December 09, 2020

Deacons and Deaconesses: A Review of Jenny Wiley Legath’s Sanctified Sisters

During this pandemic semester, I had the privilege of teaching a graduate seminar on Women...

December 08, 2020

When (Almost All) Christians Welcomed a Vaccine

According to one fall survey, nearly half of Americans claimed they definitely or probably wouldn't...

December 07, 2020

QAnon, Cults, and Religion Online

Last time I wrote about Tara Isabella Burton’s recent book Strange Rites: New Religions for...

December 05, 2020

Outward and Inward Baptism

John Robinson, pastor of the English separatist congregation in Leiden that partly transplanted itself to...

December 04, 2020

Strange Rites, Harry Potter, and the New World of Cults

One of the most interesting books on religion published this past year was Tara Isabella...

December 03, 2020

Dorothy Bradford Did Not Commit Suicide

From the Anxious Bench archives, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Mayflower passenger Dorothy Bradford's death. In December of...

December 02, 2020

The South’s Poor Whites Are Still a Forgotten People

. . . But my students' family history papers have taught me not to ignore...

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