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June 2019

June 27, 2019

Singing Hallelujah in the Streets of Hong Kong

It has been a tumultuous June in Hong Kong, where a proposed bill that would...

June 26, 2019

When Gender Theology Doesn’t Fit in Our Boxes: Then and Now

I love to study people who don’t fit in boxes. These people explode our assumptions...

June 25, 2019

The Sexuality Debate Dividing an Evangelical Denomination

To this point it’s primarily been mainline denominations like the United Methodist Church and Anabaptist groups...

June 24, 2019

Losing the Faith: Of Apostates, Renegades, and Traitors

Through writing about church history in many different eras, I have acquired a long standing...

June 23, 2019

South to North: More Things Southern Baptists Can Learn From Canadian Baptists

I am so pleased to welcome Dr. Melody Maxwell to the Anxious Bench today. Melody's...

June 22, 2019

The Household Gods of the Adams Family

In 1815, John Quincy Adams purchased six small busts of classical philosophers and poets: Cicero,...

June 21, 2019

Translation and Paraphrase

Translation is a bugbear of mine. In many types of literature, I don’t worry too...

June 20, 2019

The City-State of Boston

I am used to thinking of the New England colonies as commonwealths, as what Michael...

June 19, 2019

Cracks In The Foundation: Why American Evangelical Christianity Soured

Chuck Redfern: "It’s time for evangelical myth busting. I say that as the not-so-secret secret...

June 18, 2019

What Southern Baptists Can Learn From Canadian Baptists……

Just last week I found myself at the corner of Burrard Street and Nelson Street...

June 17, 2019

Learning from the Nuns

For a few years now, Catholic sisters and religiously unaffiliated young-ish people have been finding...

June 15, 2019

The Census, Religion, and Citizenship

The U.S. Constitution mandates a decennial census, used to allocate representatives in the House and...

June 14, 2019

Counting the Slave Trade

No worthwhile account of American history - or of its religious history - can fail...

June 13, 2019

Men Without Chests: On Weaponizing C.S. Lewis

Today we welcome Josh Parks to the Anxious Bench. A recent graduate of Calvin College...

June 12, 2019

Because Complementarianism Is About Power

On Sunday, June 2, the world buried Rachel Held Evans. She was 37 years old...

June 11, 2019

Welcome To Our New Blogger, Dr. Andrea Turpin!

I am so pleased to introduce you to my Baylor colleague, Dr. Andrea Turpin. Andrea...

June 10, 2019

She Treasured It In Her Heart

I’m wondering when it is possible to argue from silence when reading historical sources, and...

June 07, 2019

Pentecost and the Chasm of History

This coming Sunday marks the feast of Pentecost. In connection with that, I am posting...

June 06, 2019

The FBI, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Historians

Last week, David Garrow published his analysis of a cache of FBI notes about its...

June 05, 2019

God’s Internationalists: An Interview with David King about the History of World Vision

David Swartz interviews David King on his new book about World Vision

June 04, 2019

Yes, Evangelicalism Can Be Irenic

Can evangelicalism be "kinder and gentler"? Chris profiles a prototypical figure of irenic evangelicalism: Carl...

June 03, 2019

Memories of “Eastern Europe”

Almost exactly 30 years ago in June of 1989, I traveled to Europe for the...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

When and Where did Peter See the Risen Jesus?

Christians are required to believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the third...

May 30, 2019

Caring for Migrants Is Not Just Humanitarian Work—It’s Religious Work

Yesterday, the trial began for Dr. Scott Warren, a geographer and volunteer with the...

May 29, 2019

How to Learn More from the Anxious Bench

Like what you've read from us on Anxious Bench? Here's where you can find us...

May 29, 2019

Because Jesus Choosing Male Disciples Doesn’t Mean What We Think….

In fifteenth-century England, a (probably Franciscan) friar lived on the east coast near the cathedral...

May 28, 2019

Five for Fighting: Hockey and the Future of Evangelicalism

Chris considers what fighting in NHL hockey has to do with the future of evangelicalism.

May 27, 2019

The Empty Tomb

I have been posting a lot in recent weeks on Christ’s Resurrection, a topic that...

May 25, 2019

A Response to “#Woke Evangelical Timeline”

Today we are so pleased to welcome Otis Pickett, an Assistant Professor of History at...

May 24, 2019

The Sinner Finds Peace

I have a literary discovery to report, and I think I can claim a first...

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