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September 2019

September 12, 2019

Anointed with Oil

Today I discuss Darren Dochuk's recently published Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made...

September 11, 2019

The Many Faiths of Alex Trebek

A short spiritual biography of a Hollywood celebrity

September 10, 2019

The Sky Pilots of the North Woods

Chris tells the story of Minnesota's "sky pilots" — itinerant preachers whose ministry to lumberjacks in...

September 09, 2019

Being Naked and Unashamed

Funny--our realtor did not point out the nudist camp around the corner from our new...

September 06, 2019

The Decline of Death

Whenever I taught my long-running course on World Religions, I would always greet my students...

September 05, 2019

The Problem of Timeless Sexual Morality

It’s been a difficult stretch for traditional Christian sexual morality. Values once held dear are...

September 04, 2019

The Weight of Words–Medieval Jangling to Modern Tweeting

I am so pleased to welcome back Lynneth Miller Renberg. Lynneth is an assistant professor of history...

September 03, 2019

Red State Christians

Chris talks to journalist-pastor Angela Denker about her new book, based on extensive interviews with...

September 02, 2019

Shifting Images of Terror: The Road from Arlington Road

This is the voice of historical memory speaking, through the channel of Professor Jenkins. Last...

August 2019

August 30, 2019

Shifting Images of Terror

For some thirty years, I have written and taught about the topic of terrorism, including...

August 29, 2019

Wild Evangelicals

As a teenager, I twice went to Young Life's Saranac Lake summer camp. These were...

August 28, 2019

Elisabeth Elliot, Missionary Rebel

How a conservative missionary came to question the American missionary enterprise

August 27, 2019

Kashmir and Hindu Nationalism

By abrogating the constitutional provisions that granted the state of Kashmir a measure of autonomy,...

August 26, 2019

The Last Days of Charles Lindbergh

On the 45th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's death, Chris considers what the pilot's last days...

August 23, 2019

The Damnation of Theron Ware

When I am in conversations about American religious history – and specifically issues concerning teaching...

August 22, 2019

The Importance of Knowing Your Religious Neighbors

When I was conducting oral history interviews for my current book project about Hmong refugee...

August 21, 2019

Creating a “Rule of Life”: Habits for the New Semester

I am obsessed with habits. Particularly the spiritual formation potential of habits. I don’t remember...

August 20, 2019

It’s Not Just Evangelicals: Trump and Mainline Protestantism

Though mainline Protestants are often seen as theologically and politically progressive, many of those Lutherans,...

August 19, 2019

To Prosperity, and Beyond!

Although I have some reputation in the academic world, my real glory and fame stem...

August 16, 2019

Witchcraft … By Any Other Name

I suggested that witchcraft beliefs were actually much slower to decline in the West than...

August 14, 2019

Pelicans Revisited

Several years ago, I wrote a post about the way that early modern Christians understood...

August 14, 2019

Yoder School: An Interview with Phyllis Miller Swartz

David interviews his mother Phyllis Miller Swartz about her just-released memoir

August 13, 2019

The Impossible, Necessary History of the Hymnal

Chris finds that a recent book helps bring to life not just the history of...

August 12, 2019

Seeking the Spirit in the Desert

Sedona, Arizona, is full of vortexes, as they call them locally, spots where the earth...

August 09, 2019

America’s Last Witches?

I have two themes today: one about the history of witchcraft; and another about an...

August 08, 2019

Presbyterians, Politics, And American Society: A Conversation With Historians In The PCA

Today we welcome Otis W. Pickett and his colleague Brian Franklin as they share their...

August 07, 2019

How Evangelicals Forgot Women’s History

A country church burned to the ground last week. Flames billowed over its wooden spires in...

August 06, 2019

Baptists (and Other Christians) Against Christian Nationalism

How Baptists, Lutherans, Quakers, and other Christians are drawing on American religious history to make...

August 05, 2019

Rethinking a Nation

Actually seeing a new book in print is a nerve-racking experience. Dare you open it,...

August 02, 2019

Losing the Faith? Japan’s Hidden Christians

I have been posting about apostasy in a Christian context, and how some believers maintained...

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