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December 2020

December 01, 2020

What Black Christians Can Teach White Christians about the Bible

There are so many good reasons to read Esau McCaulley’s Reading While Black that I...

November 2020

November 30, 2020

Covid Christmas: I say to hell with it

Yes, Virginia, it’s our first Covid Christmas and there isn't a Santa Claus. Having passed...

November 27, 2020

Elmer Gantry, Sister Sharon, and American Religious History

Last time I posted about the overlap between entertainment, performance, and new religious movements -...

November 26, 2020

Thanksgiving: History and Meaning

It's easy to sort out the actual history of what nineteenth-century Americans began calling the...

November 25, 2020

The Problem with (Medieval) Women’s Words: A Review of Sandy Bardsley’s Venomous Tongues

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

November 24, 2020

Christmas Shopping for Christian History Buffs

Looking for gift idea for the Christian history buff in your life? Chris has some...

November 23, 2020

Spread The Picture On A Wider Screen

Jacob S. Dorman has a really fine new book out on the historic Black religious...

November 20, 2020

George Herbert, Little Gidding, and Virginia

Last time I wrote about George Herbert’s poem “The Church Militant” (published posthumously in 1633),...

November 19, 2020

Generosity for Our Own Good

Today we welcome Abram Van Engen to the Anxious Bench. Van Engen is Associate Professor of English...

November 18, 2020

Is There a “Cosmopolitan Evangelicalism?”

In the wake of another election in which evangelicals overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump, what...

November 17, 2020

Should Evangelicals Fast from Politics?

Fourteen years ago, an evangelical Republican named David Kuo called on fellow believers to fast...

November 16, 2020

What Corner? Decentering Whiteness in American Evangelicalism

Today we welcome Amar D. Peterman to The Anxious Bench. Amar...

November 13, 2020

Then Shall Religion To America Flee

I posted recently about using quotes as springboards for discussions of particular historical eras, and...

November 12, 2020

Stacey Abrams and Black Women of Faith Getting Out the Vote

Between 2018 and 2020, Stacey Abrams helped register 800,000 new voters in the state of...

November 11, 2020

The Disenfranchisement of the American People

Among the many reasons to be bothered by Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud,...

November 10, 2020

“On Eagle’s Wings”: The Catholic Hymn for a Hurting America

When the pianist plays the opening passages of “On Eagle’s Wings,” the mood in the...

November 09, 2020

Purchas and the Other Pilgrims

Sometimes you find a quote that so precisely illustrates a historical or religious theme that...

November 06, 2020

Fifty Years On: The Way the Future Was

My Anxious Bench colleague Chris Gehrz is smarter than I am. When I told him...

November 05, 2020

Anxious Elections Past

Anxious Elections Past The dust hasn't even begun to settle on the 2020 election. What...

November 04, 2020

How Can Christians Find Hope and Reconciliation after a Divisive Election?

As Abraham Lincoln spoke to a war-weary nation on the occasion of his second inauguration,...

November 03, 2020

How Americans Have Prayed for Elections

For Election Day, Chris looks at how American Christians have prayed for each other as...

November 02, 2020

On Catholic Social Encyclicals (and the Election)

As the calendar would have it, I am scheduled to post today, one day before...

October 2020

October 30, 2020

The Nightmare Before Halloween

I love Halloween, and I love horror fiction. One of the most powerful and evocative...

October 29, 2020

Evangelicalism Is Not Rounding the Corner

We welcome Peter Choi back to the Anxious Bench today. Choi is Dean of Newbigin...

October 28, 2020

The Haunting of Dorothy Scarborough: A Texas Woman’s Ghost Story

I couldn't tell you how many times I had walked past her. Dozens for sure....

October 27, 2020

A Tale of Two Evangelicalisms

Evangelicals in Sweden and the United States share similar theologies, but Swedish evangelicals tend to...

October 26, 2020

An Aging World and the Remaking of the “Global South”

I have written a great deal through the years about the Global South, particularly in...

October 23, 2020

He Who Comes Nearest To The Truth?

Last time I talked about a remarkable book published by Thomas Bayly in 1650 under...

October 21, 2020

Strange Rites and American Religion

Sleep No More was different. You didn't just watch a show or read a book...

October 21, 2020

The Signs of Wilmore, Kentucky: A Photo Essay

This past Saturday morning, we spent an hour driving around our small Kentucky town taking...

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