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April 2019

April 16, 2019

Resurrection Hope For Notre Dame

"a fire burnt the whole parish of St. Alkmund's starting at daybreak on the eve...

April 15, 2019

They Gathered Around A Coal Fire

In this Easter season, I will be thinking a lot about coal fires, anthrax, and...

April 12, 2019

Rudyard Kipling, Neil Gaiman, and The Gardener

I have a literary dilemma. I want to rave about a piece of writing –...

April 11, 2019

Sister Saints

"American religious history is women's history," Ann Braude argued in an essay published nearly two...

April 10, 2019

The Politics of Repentance

Prayers shaping politics--or politics shaping prayer?

April 09, 2019

The Religious History of the Internet

Chris recommends an article surveying the religious history of the early Internet: both how Christian...

April 08, 2019

1965: The Year that Changed America’s Religious History

1965 represents a major turning point in American religious history. The Immigration and Nationality Act...

April 05, 2019

The Mocking of Carabas

A passage in the Alexandrian writer Philo casts a curious light on Christian origins, and...

April 04, 2019

How Has Ethnic Studies Changed American Religious Studies?

Last month marked the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the four-month, student-led strike at...

April 03, 2019

The Comfort of Historical Prayer

Cancer is terrible. It steals life. We have so many more treatment options available now...

April 02, 2019

When Baptists Were Radical

Founder of an intentional, interracial Christian community called Koinonia Farm, Clarence Jordan both challenged Southern...

April 01, 2019

Green Pastures

Just suppose you had to choose the single motion picture that dealt most seriously and...

March 2019

March 29, 2019

The Revolt of Islam

The idea for this post came from my genuine surprise at reading a passage by...

March 28, 2019

Latter-day Saint Names and Revelations

Many journalists and scholars snickered a bit last year when President Russell M. Nelson...

March 27, 2019

Christabel Pankhurst: Suffragette and End-Times Seer

The second in a two-part series on Christabel Pankhurst, a fundamentalist feminist

March 26, 2019

Why I Wish More Scholars Would “Think in Public”

Why should scholars take the time to blog or podcast, knowing that they're likely to...

March 25, 2019

Did the Bible Predict Our President?

The New York Times recently profiled Jonathan Cahn, celebrity New Jersey pastor who interprets the Bible to explain—nay, predict—signs...

March 22, 2019

Racism, Slavery, and Original Sin

However strange this may sound, I am ever more struck by the central and continuing...

March 21, 2019

When #ChurchToo Goes Global

Today we welcome Mary Li Ma to the Anxious Bench. A research scholar, mission consultant,...

March 20, 2019

Who Defines Preaching Anyway?

I usually never read comments on my blogs, much less respond to them. But one...

March 19, 2019

“No heart would remain unstained”: The Atrocities of WWII

What should we make of the atrocities committed by American soldiers against Japanese, Italian, and...

March 18, 2019

Bill Clinton, God, and Oklahoma City

For multiple reasons, I am not a particular fan of Bill Clinton. But one speech...

March 15, 2019

Europe and the Experience of Slavery

ADDENDUM: I must report a ghastly synchronicity. This post concerns a historical theme that is...

March 14, 2019

The Head of John the Baptist

From the Anxious Bench archives: When I ask students to read and generate questions about the Gospel...

March 13, 2019

The Conversion of a Feminist

How an activist for suffrage converted to conservative Christian faith

March 12, 2019

Render Unto Trump What Is Trump’s

What does "render unto Caesar" mean in the Age of Trump? Chris explains why he...

March 11, 2019

Christianity and Other Faiths: A New Course

(Note: I am currently working on a small-grant application for a new course entitled "Christianity...

March 08, 2019

Studying Mormonism as Christianity

When I teach my survey of what my university clumsily terms "Religions of the West,"...

March 08, 2019

Boole, Science, and Faith

Recently I talked about Charles Babbage as a pioneer of modern computing, and as someone...

March 07, 2019

Muskrat Feasts and the Food Politics of Lent

In the upper Midwest, Lent is not simply a season for fasting—it’s a season for...

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