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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
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
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
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
This Easter time of year, we often hear the story of the journey to Emmaus,...
April 11, 2020
Many of us are yearning to "return to normal," as Americans tried to do a...
April 10, 2020
Easter is a time for sober reflection on matters of death and Resurrection, and not,...
April 09, 2020
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
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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