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November 2025

November 04, 2025

Trondenes Kirke: The Northernmost Medieval Church

It’s a stunning stone church, painted white and towering over the surrounding landscape, with the...

November 03, 2025

Review of Karen Johnson, “Ordinary Heroes of Racial Justice”

AB: Ordinary Heroes of Racial Justice OK full disclosure: I wrote this post before Daniel...

October 2025

October 30, 2025

Reading All Hallows on All Hallows Eve

I have a strictly seasonal reading recommendation, and one that is highly appropriate for the...

October 28, 2025

Karen Johnson on “Ordinary Heroes of Racial Justice”

Karen J. Johnson, a professor of history (and department chair) at Wheaton College, has just...

October 27, 2025

Everyday Evangelical Resistance for My Chicago Neighbors

“And who are my neighbors?” (Luke 10:29b) Mea culpa: This article is a combination of...

October 24, 2025

Ask of Old Paths: An Interview with Grace Hamman

Last month, I had the chance to sit down with Grace Hamman to talk about...

October 23, 2025

Of Fairies, Elves, and the Lost Races Next Door

As you will know if you have followed these blogposts through the years, I am...

October 22, 2025

Yes, Pentecostals Really Do Need Those Airplanes

There are a lot of stereotypes and caricatures that attach themselves to Pentecostal and Charismatic...

October 21, 2025

Mothers of the Church: Paula of Rome

Of all the passages of the Gospels, I find Christ’s words in Luke 14 to...

October 16, 2025

Satellite Ministries: Christian TV in the Middle East

Febe Armanios is an impressive scholar of the history of the Middle East, whose wide-ranging...

October 13, 2025

“Nations are made by men, not paper constitutions”

For over ten years my colleague and friend Paul Yandle and I have been comparing...

October 09, 2025

The Benefit of a Government Shutdown (for my students in DC)

This summer I picked up the book Who is Government? The Untold Story of Public...

October 09, 2025

Connected Histories: Asian Christians in the 1950s

Another guest blogpost today. By way of introduction, Frieder Ludwig is an outstanding scholar of...

October 08, 2025

Dylan, Cash, and the Holy Land

We are living at a time period when the rapidity of the daily news, even...

October 07, 2025

Lessons in Listening from a Scandinavian Witchcraft Trial

It seems seasonally appropriate to start October with a post about a witchcraft trial– particularly...

October 06, 2025

Pastoral Leadership in a time of Christian Nationalism

We hear much about Christian nationalism these days, and for good reason. Pastors, pundits, and...

October 02, 2025

Biblical and Christian Images in the Movie SINNERS

We have a guest blog today from my good friend Kevin Barron – more properly,...

September 2025

September 25, 2025

Magic, Miracle, Science, and Understanding Religious Claims

This post grows out of my recent work on the huge vogue in late nineteenth...

September 23, 2025

The Gen-Z Religious Revival in Its Historical Context

The ink was scarcely dry on the newly released books lamenting young Americans’ inexorable rejection...

September 22, 2025

The Charlie Kirk Memorial: a Funeral, a Revival, a Rally

On Sunday, September 21, 2025, thousands of people attended the Charlie Kirk Memorial at State...

September 18, 2025

The 1890s: Predicting the Futures of Religion

Americans in the 1890s lived in a golden age of utopian and futuristic speculation, and...

September 17, 2025

Why Is It So Hard to Do Pentecostal History?

One of the biggest stories in 20th-century religious history is the rapid rise of Pentecostal...

September 16, 2025

I’m Only Human: Sin as the Rejection of Human Nature

How should we think about our flaws and misbehavior? For some, flaws are something to...

September 12, 2025

Toward Healing? Teaching the Reformation in Mixed Company

Lisa Clark Dillon’s recent post, Teaching History in Hard Times: Denominational Colleges, addressed some things...

September 11, 2025

Science Fiction, Utopia, and Apocalypse in 1890s America

My current book project concerns America in the 1890s, particularly the religion and spirituality of...

September 10, 2025

An Ecumenical Moment: Cesar Chavez & the 3 Faiths

"All Jews, Christians and Moslems, the spiritual heirs of those slaves freed from Egyptian bondage,...

September 05, 2025

Teaching History in Hard Times: Denominational Colleges

This week I’m engaging in a time-honored academic tradition: gathering with other scholars as we...

September 04, 2025

Feminists, Lost Gospels, And A Lost History Of Christianity

My current series of posts concerns what I call the first discovery of lost gospels...

September 02, 2025

Theology, History, and Contexts for Reading Well

Stepping under the 13th-century painted ceiling from the chancel of the church in Ål housed...

August 2025

August 28, 2025

The Rediscovery, and Re-Forgetting, of the Lost Gospels

I have been describing the abundant discovery of lost scriptures and gospels from the later...

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