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September 2020

September 09, 2020

An Evangelical Defense of Institutions

Why are evangelical Protestants so often opposed to established institutions, especially in government? And should...

September 08, 2020

Adventures in Religious Biography Writing

Now that Chris' spiritual biography of Charles Lindbergh is nearing publication, he looks back at...

September 07, 2020

On Secularisms

For a current project, I am trying to identify three forms of political secularism that...

September 04, 2020

Wall, Church, and Chalice

I have often posted at this site on British history during the post-Roman and Anglo-Saxon...

September 03, 2020

Evangelist Billy Graham’s Granddaughter and Son Rail Against Public Health Measures Older Than Grandpa

Today we're joined at the Anxious Bench by John Schmalzbauer, a sociologist and professor of...

September 02, 2020

Abby Johnson and the Problem of Biblical Womanhood

I checked my map to be certain it was the right stop. It was. Caledonian...

September 01, 2020

MLK, Mike Pence, and the Great Cloud of Witnesses

I’m now one day into my experience of teaching on a college campus in the...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

When Was the Cold War?

The labels and limits we apply to historical periods do much to shape how we...

August 28, 2020

Shakespeare, Honor, and Reformation

So that Shakespeare really is that good… Like many of us, my life has been...

August 27, 2020

Catarina de San Juan

Sometime around the year 1610, Portuguese slave traders seized a young girl, by tradition on...

August 26, 2020

When Baptists Believed in the Bible—and Bourbon

The surprising origins of Kentucky's spirit

August 25, 2020

A Christian and a Socialist

He shows up in my spiritual biography of Charles Lindbergh, but I wish I knew...

August 24, 2020

In Praise of Church Ladies, Faithful Stewards of Our Democracy

A couple weeks ago, when the nation was abuzz with the news that Joe Biden...

August 21, 2020

Lovecraft’s Home Country

The HBO series Lovecraft Country is reviving interest in the author H. P. Lovecraft, in...

August 20, 2020

Dangerous Christian Nationalism? A conversation between Abram Van Engen and Os Guinness

Last month, Abram Van Engen contributed a post here at the Anxious Bench on “Os...

August 19, 2020

Recent Books on Women & Gender in American Religious History

Next week Baylor’s fall semester begins. Courtesy of the pandemic, stress among both students and...

August 18, 2020

The Religious History of the 19th Amendment

For the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, Chris reviews a few...

August 17, 2020

The Quest for the Crown of Creation

Some years ago, I wrote a book called The Many Faces of Christ: The Thousand-Year...

August 14, 2020

Remembering the Martyrs of the Pacific War

This year commemorates the 75th anniversary of Japanese surrender in the Second World War, VJ...

August 12, 2020

Jesus and John Wayne: A Guide for Biblical Manhood

A good book can turn your life around. I just finished Jesus and John Wayne...

August 12, 2020

Why the Pro-Life Movement Lost Its Black Supporters

In the mid-1970s, Blacks were more likely than any other group of Americans to oppose...

August 11, 2020

4 Things I Want My Students to Know about This Fall

With the start of an academic year unlike any other just weeks away, Chris shares...

August 10, 2020

A Tale of Two Mosques

Coverage of All-Things-Covid has unfortunately crowded from the news cycle treatment of two events pertaining...

August 07, 2020

Saving the Good Wine Until Last

Critic Colin Manlove once listed the three main writers of "Christian fantasy" during the twentieth...

August 06, 2020

You Want Context? Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Crotch Shot and Family-Values Evangelicalism

Earlier this week Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University and one of President Trump’s...

August 05, 2020

When History Was Really Cancelled: A Black Cemetery in Waco, TX

The nothingness surprised me. I stepped over the low stone wall and walked down the...

August 04, 2020

Of Norse Gods, White Supremacists, and Cultural Marxists

Looking into the news that a pagan group has bought a former Lutheran church in...

August 03, 2020

Hiroshima: 75 Years On

I am going to address a really sensitive issue involving the question of how and...

July 2020

July 31, 2020

Why Hagia Sophia Is Going Back To Being a Mosque

Turkey’s government looks set to turn the great former church of Hagia Sophia from a...

July 29, 2020

Hagia Sophia: A Building’s Transformations

On July 24, 2020, Muslims held Friday prayers in the nave of Hagia Sophia for...

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