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May 2020

May 08, 2020

American Prophets and the Progressive Religious Tradition

Here is a book that I look forward to reading but have not yet cracked...

May 07, 2020

Native Americans, the Ten Lost Tribes, and the Book of Mormon

“What became of the ten tribes of Israel,” asked former Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow, “when...

May 06, 2020

Good News to All Nations: An Interview with Lauren Turek

David interviews Lauren Turek on her new book about evangelicals and human rights

May 05, 2020

How To Teach Your Kids About History

Do you want your kids to study history while they're home from school? Chris asked...

May 04, 2020

Hopeful Signposts in Interfaith Dialogue

In the conclusion of a forthcoming book, The Faiths of Others: A History of Interreligious...

May 01, 2020

A Saint for Failed States and Refugee Crises

Most modern readers find it hard to identify with ancient or medieval saints’ lives, written...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

Remembering Fr. Lawrence Lucas and Understanding the Black Catholic Movement – An Interview with Matthew Cressler

Earlier this month, Fr. Lawrence Lucas, author of Black Priest, White Church and a prominent...

April 29, 2020

How Unique is Our Present Crisis Really?

For 9 years now, nearly every semester I have taught a survey course on the...

April 28, 2020

“Flying by Foy” in the classroom: face-to-face teaching as live theater, wires, pulleys, and all

By Elesha Coffman, Baylor University In this semester of Coronavirus, we professors who are accustomed...

April 27, 2020

A Mist That Appears For A Little While

Plenty of Christians (and Jews) are asking a question right now: given our current crisis,...

April 24, 2020

Contemplating the Religious Future After the Crisis

Like many of us, I am thinking a great deal right now about the impact...

April 23, 2020

The Geneva Bible

From the Anxious Bench archives: From 1560 until well into the seventeenth century, the Geneva...

April 22, 2020

How the Liberal Arts Help Christians See War More Clearly

During a hard week for his university, Chris thinks ahead to how two of his...

April 21, 2020

Why I Bake Bread in the Middle of a Crisis

Like many others during the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris has found himself baking bread — and thinking...

April 20, 2020

Precious Protector

A Review of Alexander Norman, The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt,...

April 17, 2020

An Epidemic Sparks Racial Nightmares: Philadelphia in the 1790s

Some twenty years ago, I was working on the writer Charles Brockden Brown, the first...

April 16, 2020

Searching for—and Not Finding—God in Outer Space

Why astronauts had trouble seeing God in outer space

April 15, 2020

Because it is Time for Christian Patriarchy to End: A Reading List, Part One

Back when work clothes were still necessary for work and academics were doing normal academic...

April 15, 2020

Losing Our (Medieval) Religion? The Cost of Not Teaching History…..

This is from my Anxious Bench archives and is a placeholder until my post goes...

April 14, 2020

Polio, Christians, and the Importance of Vaccination

As we look forward to the day when there's a coronavirus vaccine, Chris considers the...

April 13, 2020

The Missing Woman of Emmaus

This Easter time of year, we often hear the story of the journey to Emmaus,...

April 11, 2020

Beware the Return to Normalcy

Many of us are yearning to "return to normal," as Americans tried to do a...

April 10, 2020

And Mercy Danced

Easter is a time for sober reflection on matters of death and Resurrection, and not,...

April 09, 2020

Pilgrims and Pandemics

Spanish Flu. SARS, MERS. Bubonic plague, if one wants to reach for a more distant...

April 08, 2020

Kids and Quarantine: Lessons from the 1940s

Guest blogger Jackie Den Hartog reflects on quarantining with children

April 07, 2020

Distemper in the Family of Sarah Pierpont Edwards

In the 18th century, few families escaped death at the hand of infectious diseases, not...

April 06, 2020

Pandemic and Pregnancy

It may feel all but impossible to do anything right now not related in some...

April 03, 2020

Jesus, Robert Graves, and the Mount of Olives

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh...

April 02, 2020

The Wounds of Racism and the Pandemic of Anti-Asian Hatred

  On March 14, an Asian American father brought his two young sons, ages two...

April 01, 2020

Learning in Coronavirus Time: Rereading C.S. Lewis’s Famous Sermon

On October 22, 1939, C.S. Lewis ascended the pulpit of the Church of St. Mary...

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