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August 2019

August 01, 2019

The Cock’s Crow in Christian Art and Hymnody

All four of the New Testament gospels include the story of Peter's denial of Jesus....

July 2019

July 31, 2019

Filipino Evangelicals and People Power

Another story from Asia in which evangelicals sing Hallelujah in protest of totalitarian regimes

July 30, 2019

How Church History (Re)taught Me the Value of Old Hymns – and Vice Versa

Guest blogger Emily Wenneborg considers how "old hymns and the history of Christianity can work...

July 29, 2019

The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom?

Almost anything by Robert Wilken is worth reading. I have benefitted immensely from his The...

July 26, 2019

Nicodemus and the Secret Scriptures

I recently wrote about Nicodemism, the Reformation and Early Modern practice of keeping one’s real...

July 25, 2019

Summer Camp: American Religion and Recreation in the Great Outdoors

Today we welcome Monica L. Mercado to the Anxious Bench. Monica is Assistant Professor of History at Colgate...

July 24, 2019

Agatha Christie, Christian Dior, and How I Learned to Love the Bomb

I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but shortly after I began teaching American history,...

July 23, 2019

Mapping the Relevance of Religious History for Today

Check out a map of our most recent and popular blog posts! You might find...

July 22, 2019

Nicodemites and Night Disciples

Call it a guilty secret of Christian history: a secret about secrecy. As I have...

July 21, 2019

Are Food Photos Table Grace for the Digital Age?

Are food photos on Instagram a kind of mealtime prayer? Chris thinks about the meaning...

July 19, 2019

The Heresies That Men Do Leave

People often change their religious identity, shifting from one faith or denomination to another. They...

July 18, 2019

Academia and Meritocracy

Every so often, I remind myself that academia (at least in the discipline of History)...

July 17, 2019

Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: An Interview with Carolyn Karcher

In this collection of personal narratives, forty Jews of diverse backgrounds tell a wide range...

July 16, 2019

Fifty Years Later… The Many Meanings of Apollo 11

Fifty years after Apollo 11 began its historic journey to the surface of the moon,...

July 15, 2019

Oberlin’s Better Self

Not much more needs to be said on the conflict between Oberlin College and Gibson’s...

July 13, 2019

When Reviews Go Strange

When I read the excellent reviews offered by the Wall Street Journal, I always enjoy...

July 12, 2019

Peregrinus and the Early Christians

Last time I talked about the second century philosopher Peregrinus, whom we know who went...

July 11, 2019

The Scandinavian Christian Music Industry and Transatlantic Pentecostalism

Today we welcome Hilde Løvdal Stephens to the Anxious Bench. Hilde is a Visiting Associate Professor...

July 10, 2019

The Patron Saint of Bachelorettes

I am so happy to have a post today from one of my favorite graduate...

July 09, 2019

The Self-Education of Frederick Douglass

David Blight's biography of Frederick Douglass inspires Chris to consider the history of self-taught Americans.

July 08, 2019

Losing the Faith: Peregrinus

I posted recently on the subject of apostasy, abandoning the faith, or defecting from it....

July 06, 2019

Family Reflections on the World Wars

Beth's and Chris' parents share reflections on visiting world war battlefields in Flanders, the Somme,...

July 05, 2019

Losing the Faith – At Least, in Public

I have been posting about apostasy, the act of deserting a faith, whether voluntarily or...

July 04, 2019

Radical Parliamentarians

On the day Americans commemorate their separation from Great Britain, why not spend some time...

July 03, 2019

Growing Up in America’s Segregated South

Historian Skip Elliott contemplates a lifetime of observing prejudices and racism in the United States,...

July 02, 2019

The Honest Patriotism of Frederick Douglass

Ahead of America's national holiday, Chris considers the patriotism of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who said...

July 01, 2019

The Half-Year in Review

Rachel Held Evans and Marie Kondo, Pete Buttigieg and the National Prayer Breakfast, patriarchy and...

July 01, 2019

Islam and Religious Freedom

Book Review of Daniel Philpott, Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human...

June 2019

June 29, 2019

Monuments, Names, and Memory

I'm putting the finishing touches on a history of Plymouth Colony and have been thinking...

June 28, 2019

The Omen, Good Omens, and Why Neil Gaiman is Not the Antichrist

You might have noticed a recent news story concerning the Amazon Prime series Good Omens,...

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