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October 2019

October 24, 2019

Hey, John MacArthur. You have a culture. It’s called white (Christian) patriarchy.

Dear John, So I imagine you’ve been caught by surprise at the popularity/notoriety of that...

October 23, 2019

Walter Kim, the NAE, and Evangelical Leaders of Color

David R. Swartz reflects on last week's announcement about the first nonwhite president of the...

October 22, 2019

Is American Christianity Really In Free Fall?

The Pew Foundation has just released a significant report concerning the state of American religion....

October 21, 2019

Imagining Motherhood and the Past

Present day visions of motherhood may feel so askew that we might look in many...

October 18, 2019

Voices of the Voiceless

I need to declare an interest in what follows. I am writing here about a...

October 17, 2019

Why My Office Door Is Always Open and What I Learned Teaching in the Opioid Epidemic

He was the first student to ever visit my office. I wasn’t expecting him to...

October 16, 2019

Wisdom from Religious History for Present Higher Education

Last week I got an unusual opportunity to live out the tagline of The Anxious...

October 15, 2019

Who Is an Evangelical… in Africa?

For the second year in a row, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is...

October 14, 2019

The Second Canon

I deeply respect my friends who are Biblical literalists, but I do have some quarrels...

October 11, 2019

The Gospel and the Script Doctor

Aristion was a prestigious and influential figure in the early church, about whom we know...

October 09, 2019

Evangelicalism Is Not a Political Problem

81% of American evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. 81%! For many observers of American religion...

October 09, 2019

The Radical Jim Wallis

A radical political style resurfaces on the evangelical left in its challenge of Trump

October 08, 2019

The Magic of History

Reading Harry Potter with his kids has got Chris thinking that history can be almost...

October 07, 2019

Two Major Works of Scholarship

Permit me to heartily recommend two scholarly books hot of the press. The first is...

October 04, 2019

We Compiled The Bible

I have posted on how the Bible came to take the shape that we know,...

October 03, 2019

What I learned from (almost) attending a Trump rally

In January 2016, Donald Trump claimed that he could stand in the middle of 5th...

October 02, 2019

What If Biblical Womanhood Isn’t Biblical?

A student stopped me after class recently. She wanted to know if I listened to...

October 01, 2019

The (Lapsed) Presbyterian Piety of Anne Morrow Lindbergh

While she drew on many other religious, philosophical, and literary sources for her post-Christian spirituality,...

September 2019

September 30, 2019

Nashville, NASHVILLE, and the Elephant in the Room

This post strays a bit from the main theme of the Anxious Bench in that...

September 27, 2019

Fan Fiction and Alternative Gospels

Wired magazine recently published an excellent essay that overtly said next to nothing about religion....

September 26, 2019

Who Is an Evangelical?

It's Founder's Day at the Bench. Thomas S. Kidd is James Vardaman Distinguished Professor of History at...

September 25, 2019

Unexpected Sites of Christian Pacifism: John Wimber Edition

David returns to his series on Christians you might not know are pacifists

September 24, 2019

“Teaching was unrighteous for a girl”: The History of Violence Against Women Preachers

The title track from the current #1 country album — plus a tweet from the...

September 23, 2019

Death by Secularism?

On November 22, 1967, in Decree 4377, the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha declared religion officially...

September 20, 2019

What Did Luke Know, And When Did He Know It?

I am struggling with a celebrated New Testament passage, and I’ll use this blogpost as...

September 19, 2019

“Faith Is Something They Can Take With Them”: The Importance of Religion in Refugee Resettlement

In the past two years, the Trump administration has pushed aggressively for restrictive refugee policies....

September 18, 2019

Can Suffragists Teach Us About Religion’s Relationship to Politics?

Suffragists fascinate me. I have always been impressed by their steadfast commitment to political equality...

September 17, 2019

The Heirs of 1918: WWI and Native American Life

A recent visit to a museum on an Ojibwe reservation got Chris thinking about how...

September 16, 2019

The Four Gospels, and the Through Four

Not for the first time, I am thinking about gospels, and specifically the four gospels....

September 13, 2019

The Cremation Revolution

In my last column, I discussed how shifting perceptions of death contributed to weakening traditional...

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