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February 2020

February 20, 2020

Sex, Outrage, and American Religion: Miss America’s God

This year’s Super Bowl halftime show sparked outrage among a contingent of American Christians....

February 19, 2020

Because We Have Made God Too Small: A Baylor Professor’s Apology to Kaitlin Curtice

The chair scraped next to me. It was 2:30 on Friday afternoon—time for our scheduled...

February 18, 2020

Seeing Animals: What Ethical Responsibilities Do Humans Have to Other Creatures?

Chris talks to his colleague Annie Berglund about animal ethics, a topic she explores in...

February 17, 2020

The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto

I am presently teaching a graduate course at Baylor on Global/World Christianity. My aim in...

February 14, 2020

How the Virgin of Guadalupe Came to Boalsburg, Pennsylvania

Look at this figure, and tell me what it is, and where it is. The...

February 13, 2020

Speaking with the Dead

Today The Anxious Bench welcomes Erik R. Seeman, Professor of History at the University at...

February 12, 2020

Unholy Spooks

The missionaries who spied for the United States

February 11, 2020

What Does It Mean to Be “Born Again”?

According to the General Social Survey, not just evangelicals but growing numbers of Catholics and...

February 10, 2020

What Childbirth Reveals

"I love to look at the work of God. I love to see the work...

February 07, 2020

Papias, Jesus, and the Miraculous Vines

Based on long study of Christian history, I offer a couple of strictly non-scientific impressions...

February 06, 2020

The Most Important Moment of Mitt Romney’s Speech Was When He Said Nothing At All

The most important moment of Senator Mitt Romney’s speech yesterday was when he wasn’t actually...

February 05, 2020

Should the United Methodist Church Split over Same-Sex Marriage?

I am not a Methodist—well, not anymore. I grew up in the United Methodist Church...

February 04, 2020

When Minnesota Was the Frontier: “Home Missionaries” in the 19th Century

In the mid-19th century, Minnesota was part of the American frontier — and the destination...

February 03, 2020

The Sun God in the Synagogue

Last year, I wrote several post about the relationship between Judaism and Hellenism, the issue...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith

Through the years, I have worked on a lot of different topics. Last time, I...

January 30, 2020

Evangelicals Incorporated: An Interview with Daniel Vaca

Who are evangelicals? How did the meaning of evangelicalism take shape over the course of...

January 29, 2020

The Latinization of Latin America Mission

Fifty years after the latinization of Latin America Mission, attempts to implement the insights of...

January 28, 2020

“Jesus Loves Me, This I Know”

Chris investigates the unlikely history of a much loved children's hymn.

January 27, 2020

Reading Newman’s The Idea of a University

The nineteenth-century Catholic theologian John Henry Newman was recently canonized by Pope Francis. Newman is...

January 24, 2020

Writing My Christian History Sequence

This post is about the process of writing, and about gradually finding out what exactly...

January 23, 2020

Simple Truth: Sex Abuse, the Amish, and the Evangelicals

Last week, journalist Sarah McClure published an investigative report in Cosmopolitan—yes, Cosmopolitan—on the prevalence of...

January 22, 2020

The Divorce of a Pastor’s Wife in 1860 Texas

This is from my Anxious Bench archives. I am working hard on book chapters, but...

January 21, 2020

What’s Lost with the Dying of the Mainline

Given current trends, mainline denominations may virtually disappear by the year 2050. If so, Chris...

January 20, 2020

The Decline of Us-ness: Bowling Alone and Dying Alone

The Economist just published an article that on its surface said nothing about religion or...

January 17, 2020

Mystical Images of War

I have written a lot related to the centennial of the First World War. One...

January 15, 2020

Puritans Revisited

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Arthur Miller firmly tethered puritan to hypocrisy, self-righteousness, prudery, and the irrational...

January 15, 2020

The Mennonite Game and Whiteness

Does the Mennonite Game promote a close or closed community?

January 14, 2020

What Is a Heretic?

What does it mean to call someone a heretic? Guest blogger Joey Cochran surveys the...

January 13, 2020

Is Dry January Worth It?

Greetings from Dry January. This special season, introduced a few years back, invites men and...

January 10, 2020

How American Anglicans Went Mainstream

Today I have one substantial post, about American Anglicans, but also a shorter note on...

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