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December 2019

December 03, 2019

A Time for Huldah, Not Cyrus

Rather than legitimating support for political leaders by comparing them to biblical kings, Chris suggests...

December 02, 2019

John Henry Newman and the University

With respect to the mission of a university and the role of theology therein, few...

November 2019

November 30, 2019

World Faiths and World Languages

The race for Academy Awards has produced a story that, surprisingly, is highly relevant to...

November 29, 2019

When the Bible is Used to Justify Hatred

A harrowing recent news story offers sobering lessons for how people use the Bible, and...

November 28, 2019

Giving Thanks for The Anxious Bench

For Thanksgiving, our blogmeister pauses to give thanks for those who write — and read —...

November 28, 2019

Thanksgivings Past

Thanksgiving is a good holiday for historians, because it gives us a ready opportunity to...

November 27, 2019

Because Global Christian History Disrupts Christian Patriarchy Too–Evidence from Medieval Ethiopia

Today I am pleased to welcome Anna Wells to the Anxious Bench. Anna is a second-year...

November 26, 2019

Beyond Red Kettles and Chick-fil-A: Some History of the Salvation Army

It's the time of year when Salvation Army red kettles are ubiquitous... and the Army...

November 25, 2019

Scrolls, Lost Gospels, And Why Nobody Came Back To Get Them

Last time, I looked at the discovery of various kinds of buried treasure. I suggested...

November 22, 2019

Why Did Nobody Come Back To Get It?

So much of what we know about the past – including the early Christian past,...

November 21, 2019

Evangelicals: The Problem with Insider History

This is a post about the history of evangelicalism. But as with many things these...

November 20, 2019

World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism

David Swartz reviews David King's book on World Vision

November 19, 2019

The Lindbergh Library

What the books collected in the Lindbergh House tell us about the intellectual world of...

November 18, 2019

Becoming Pilgrims

Pulitzer-prize winning writer Timothy Egan takes to the road as a pilgrim not because it...

November 15, 2019

The 2010s: The Greatest Christian Films?

I recently posted about the decade of the 2010s that is now so swiftly passing...

November 14, 2019

P is for Pluralism: Sesame Street and Its Lessons for a Multireligious America

Among the many memorable and educational things Sesame Street provided me as a preschooler—skills for...

November 13, 2019

How to Break Down Prejudice

Every few years I switch up the readings for my U.S. history survey course. Recently,...

November 12, 2019

Sister Rosetta: The Pentecostal Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll

Chris recalls how a guitar-slinging Pentecostal gospel singer named Sister Rosetta Tharpe helped develop rock...

November 11, 2019

The 2010s: A Decade in Faith?

This blog is unusual in format in that I am not so much making a...

November 08, 2019

Robert Elsmere, Revisited

In my last post, I discussed the 1888 English novel Robert Elsmere, which was vastly...

November 07, 2019

Double Crossed

In Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States during the Second World...

November 06, 2019

Trump and the Cosmopolitan-Populist Evangelical Divide

Why white evangelicals don't care what Michael Gerson or Peter Wehner say about Trump

November 05, 2019

Brandt Jean, Donald Trump, and the Heart of Evangelical Faith

Guest blogger Barry Hankins argues that "Evangelicals will only recover their witness when they forget...

November 04, 2019

“In His Will is Our Peace”

[I do not normally give homilies nor post them as blogs, but seeing that I...

November 01, 2019

Robert Elsmere and the Resurrection

I recently posted about The Damnation of Theron Ware, a classic example of a book...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

The Irony of Catholic History: An Interview with George Weigel

George Weigel, distinguished senior fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, one of the world’s...

October 30, 2019

Pride and Preaching: A Medieval Perspective on John MacArthur

I almost didn't write this post. After all, what more could I say? Sarah Bessey already...

October 29, 2019

God Is Our Refuge — Not Our Fortress: A Reformation Sunday Sermon

The psalms, Martin Luther decided, “are not words to hear, but [words] to live.” So...

October 28, 2019

Embracing the Darkness

I have posted often on the theme of witchcraft, which is a critical topic for...

October 25, 2019

Percy Jackson and the Problem of Western Civilization

In the Percy Jackson stories, Western civilization is described as "a collective consciousness that has...

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