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March 2019

March 06, 2019

“Let Me Be A Woman” Revised? Elisabeth Elliot and Beth Moore

In 1976, Elisabeth Elliot published her landmark book Let Me Be A Woman: Notes to My...

March 05, 2019

In Search of the Primitive

In 1973 anthropologist Stanley Diamond published a series of essays meant “as a modest antidote...

March 04, 2019

Lent and Fasting, Then and Now

This coming week, we will enter the season of Lent. Thinking about the history of...

March 01, 2019

Charles Babbage and the Miracle Program

I wrote recently about the silly contemporary myth that portrays religion, and particularly Christianity, as...

February 2019

February 27, 2019

Historians and Their Publics

Recently historians have been debating each other. Actually, this has been going on for quite...

February 27, 2019

“This Was Not Always Our Land”

In the nineteenth century, our white ancestors took Kanza land. What do we do about...

February 26, 2019

How Podcasts Help Historians “Speak to a Larger Public”

Chris recommends five examples of a medium that helps connect historians to the larger public:...

February 25, 2019

Demons at work

Jonathan Malesic‘s stunning reflection on life with the monks of New Mexico’s Monastery of Christ in...

February 22, 2019

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation

If you shine powerful flashlights into the more benighted corners of university humanities departments, you...

February 21, 2019

Faith and Struggle in the Lives of African Americans

This past week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Randal Maurice Jelks, Professor...

February 20, 2019

Disrupting Christian Patriarchy: Russell Moore is Right (Sort Of)

My husband, however, is definitely right. He suggested I explain two things before I continue...

February 19, 2019

Galileo and the Harmony of Faith and Science

In the 17th century, Galileo argued that faith and science answered different questions using different...

February 18, 2019

The Forgotten Temple

I have written a lot through the years about Christian origins and their Jewish background,...

February 15, 2019

Christians, Immigrants, and the Border

I have strong prejudices concerning matters of immigration. I am an immigrant to the US,...

February 14, 2019

The University of Iowa versus Evangelicalism

Over the past two decades, many public and quasi-private institutions of higher education have stripped...

February 13, 2019

Yun Ch’iho Meets Jim Crow

How a Korean Christian's encounter with racial segregation soured him on America

February 12, 2019

The History of Moral Re-Armament

Meet Frank Buchman, whose Moral Re-Armament movement was endorsed by political and economic leaders, even...

February 11, 2019

Karma Quandary

Soon the Dalai Lama will mark his 60th year of exile from China. If you...

February 10, 2019

The SBC Report and the Importance of Journalism

Horrifying as this morning's report about sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches is, Chris argues...

February 08, 2019

Remember Lord Dunmore!

Unless you have been living in a cave, you will undoubtedly have noted the furious...

February 07, 2019

Rethinking Religious Nones: The Case of Chinese Americans

It’s Lunar New Year this week, and across the country, Chinese Americans are ushering in...

February 06, 2019

Disrupting Christian Patriarchy: Isn’t It About Time?

In July 1934, the deacons met at First Baptist Church Elm Mott, a Southern Baptist...

February 05, 2019

5 Books to Read for Black History Month

Chris shares five books on black history that he's hoping to read this month.

February 04, 2019

Should the Fact of Slave-holding Ruin Historical Reputations?

Last time, I discussed the dilemma of how we commemorate early leaders who bought or...

February 01, 2019

Slavery, History, and Relativism

Recently, John Turner contributed an important post concerning John Myles, one of the founders of...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

Bryan Caplan’s Case against Education

In an era in which politicians like Bernie Sanders talk about making college "free," Bryan...

January 30, 2019

The National Prayer Breakfast and Evangelical Prophetic Witness

On February 1, 1973, Senator Mark Hatfield (R) of Oregon delivered a stinging address at...

January 29, 2019

Why Evangelicals Should Read Anabaptist Revisions

Why evangelical readers should follow a new Patheos blog from a pastor-scholar with ample experience...

January 28, 2019

It’s Cold Outside

But we expect it to be—don’t we? What is the big deal about winter if...

January 25, 2019

The American Dictator and the Lone Ranger

Last year's terror attack in Pittsburgh highlighted the often-ignored US tradition of violent anti-Semitism. Not...

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