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July 2020

July 29, 2020

Exorcising Quetzalcoatl: Spiritual Warfare in Guatemala—and Beyond

In the 1990s Harold Caballeros was minister of a church of 350 members in Guatemala...

July 28, 2020

Faith and History: A Devotional

Chris previews a new devotional he edited with Beth, in which Anxious Bench members and...

July 27, 2020

Healing and Grieving in the Age of Covid-19: Refugees and Lessons on Long-Distance Ritual Life

Among the many fascinating cultural phenomena of the Covid-19 pandemic, the most intriguing to me...

July 24, 2020

Peter Halket Meets a Stranger

American Christians often display the phrase WWJD? or “What Would Jesus Do?” This challenging question...

July 23, 2020

Os Guinness, Eric Metaxas, and Their Dangerous Myths of American History

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

July 22, 2020

When Harry Met Sally at Church: Can Christian Men and Women Be Friends?

In the classic romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally, Harry famously asserted, “Men and women...

July 21, 2020

How to Hide an Empire

Reading Daniel Immerwahr's impressive history of the "Greater United States" made Chris rethink American empire...

July 20, 2020

Nazarenes and Christians and Baptists

SPOILER ALERT: Despite my title, this blogpost is not about the modern-day Baptist denomination. These...

July 17, 2020

Robert Lowell Rethinks Jonathan Edwards

I have been posting about using poetry as a resource for studying and teaching American...

July 15, 2020

Kipling’s The Gardener

This summer I’m teaching a course on the Bible as Literature. Once in a while,...

July 15, 2020

The Spiritual Danger of Monuments

Monuments to flawed heroes of the past are spiritually dangerous – but removing them may...

July 14, 2020

Discovering an Evangelical Heritage… of Militant Masculinity

Kristin's new book on militant masculinity has Chris rethinking his evangelical heritage.

July 13, 2020

Why Should Kids Go Back to School?

What is school for? To answer that question Massachusetts Bay colonists invoked the devil. The...

July 10, 2020

Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan

Historians can use American poetry as valuable primary sources, not least to illustrate nineteenth century...

July 09, 2020

About Those Manly Evangelical Protectors…

A couple weeks back, evangelical Twitter erupted with the drama unfolding around Aimee Byrd and...

July 08, 2020

Because It is Time To Include Black Women’s Voices Too: Revised Disrupting Christian Patriarchy Reading List

Racism wasn’t a word I knew as a child. Yet racism churned all around me....

July 07, 2020

The Religious Left: A Reckoning and a Way Forward

Guest blogger Benji Rolsky reviews a new book on the Religious Left.

July 06, 2020

Of Whittier and Black Lives

I have been posting on how historians can use American poetry as valuable primary sources,...

July 03, 2020

Fertility and Faith: The Demographic Revolution and the Transformation of World Religions

I am happy to announce the publication of my new book, Fertility and Faith: The...

July 02, 2020

Religion and the Courts: A Level Playing Field or Special Exemptions?

Religious conservatives have been cheering some recent Supreme Court decisions and are feeling less cheery...

July 01, 2020

Christian Workers, Unite!

Justin Vos continues what is becoming an Anxious Bench series on Dutch Calvinist intellectual thought

June 2020

June 30, 2020

The Half-Year in Review

I was about to start this post with the phrase, "As usual," since I habitually...

June 29, 2020

Consolation in a Time of Plague

On April 10, the Wall Street Journal reported on the digging of mass graves on...

June 26, 2020

Melville’s CLAREL and the Crisis of American Faith

I have been posting about how American poetry can serve as a rich primary source...

June 25, 2020

Religion, Race, and “Never Have I Ever”: A Roundtable Discussion

As an Asian American who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, I don’t remember...

June 24, 2020

Reflections of a White Christian Germaphobe

This week most major Texas cities implemented ordinances requiring masking in public. My germaphobic Texan...

June 23, 2020

Why Do White Christians Find It Easier to Denounce Abortion Than Racial Injustice? Maybe It’s Christian Nationalism

Today I'm delighted to introduce the newest member of The Anxious Bench: Daniel K. Williams teaches American history...

June 22, 2020

Enough Learning to Last Until the End of My Life

Often, stories of martyrs and saints are so reworked over time that they become outrageously...

June 19, 2020

Remembering John the Baptist

Many of the events in the Christian liturgical year coincide with older seasonal celebrations, which...

June 18, 2020

Pandemic Religion

Two months ago, Lincoln Mullen (my colleague at George Mason University) and I created pandemicreligion.org,...

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