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January 2019

January 24, 2019

The Sins of Early Evangelicalism

Today Peter Choi, author of the new book George Whitefield: Evangelist for God and Empire...

January 23, 2019

Christians Must Face The Reality Of Rape Culture

I am so pleased to welcome guest blogger Leslie Hahner, PhD, to The Anxious Bench...

January 22, 2019

A Brief History of the Time Machine

The time machine is a staple of science fiction... but do some machines actually help...

January 21, 2019

Faith, Fertility, and the Remaking of Islam

I am using a map to illustrate some long term megatrends in the history of...

January 18, 2019

Which Western Civilization?

The world of Classics is currently facing intense debates over race and racism, and the...

January 17, 2019

John Myles, the early New England Baptists, and Liberty

John Myles (sometimes written Miles) was among the most important Baptist ministers in seventeenth-century New...

January 16, 2019

“Joe Brown, Joe Brown, He’s a Mean White Man”: Southern Baptist Seminary and the Convict-Lease System

An evangelical seminary tries to reckon with its history of white supremacy

January 15, 2019

12 Books by Women You Should Read This Year

An Anxious Bench book club: 12 books by - and mostly about - women that...

January 11, 2019

Remembering Gary Knoppers (1956-2018)

This past Christmas season was darkened by the loss of a great friend who was...

January 10, 2019

Marie Kondo: Magical Asian Sage for Our Untidy Times

The families, homes, and clutter habits featured on the Netflix reality show Tidying Up with...

January 09, 2019

What Will Evangelicals Say to Jesus?

"White Jesus has blood on him." Angela Tarango, Associate Professor of Religion at Trinity University,...

January 08, 2019

Before “true love waits” there was Josh McDowell and Petra

Thanks to Jared Burkholder for writing this morning's guest post on the history of evangelical...

January 07, 2019

Extinction Rebellion

Recently, a couple of semi-humorous stories made me think about a far graver set of...

January 04, 2019

Roma, Race, and Faith

Alfonso Cuarón’s film Roma has been universally praised as a major work of cinema, a...

January 03, 2019

Mitt Romney and Mormon Studies

Mitt Romney has done more than just about anyone else (save my Doktorvater) for my...

January 02, 2019

Serendipity in the Stacks: A Case against Bookless Libraries

Why I'm not ready to leave behind real books in real library

January 01, 2019

Is New Year’s Day a Christian Holiday?

Greetings from London, England, where I've just arrived to start Bethel University's World War I...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

Why Raising Chickens Should Not Be Your New Year’s Resolution

Who doesn’t long for an integrated life? A life that holds together the varied offices,...

December 28, 2018

In Search of Crypto-Jews, Again

The Atlantic just published a potentially important piece called “The Genetic Legacy of the Spanish...

December 27, 2018

2018: The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Evangelicalism

Reviewing our most popular posts of 2018, Chris found one topic popping up again and...

December 26, 2018

Disrupting Our Nativity: Two Medieval Differences

I love nativities. Every Thanksgiving my mother gives me a new nativity set to display....

December 25, 2018

The Mysterious Project of Putting Christ Back in Christmas

“In a culture dominated by sharp opinions, admitting uncertainty comes at a cost.” So concludes...

December 24, 2018

The Great War’s Christmas Memorial

Why Chris' favorite World War I memorial is the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols...

December 24, 2018

Christmas and Epiphany, Birth and Baptism

What follows is adapted from a blogpost of mine at this site some years back....

December 21, 2018

Of Black Swans and GUBUs

I have posted here before about issues of predicting the future, specifically in religious matters....

December 20, 2018

Who Defines Evangelicalism?

I am not among the Twitterati, so this post is rather far outside of my...

December 19, 2018

A Very Not-So-Merry Christmas: How Protestantism Nearly Killed St. Nick

We all give thanks that the excesses of the Reformation didn’t kill Christmas in the...

December 18, 2018

They Shall Not Grow Old: WWI According to Peter Jackson

Chris reviews the stunning new World War I documentary by Peter Jackson, a filmmaker better...

December 17, 2018

Marxist Socialism and Soviet Atheism

A noble impulse lurks in the heart of the young when they take “capitalism” to...

December 14, 2018

On Writing (Very) Modern History

History never looks like history when you are living through it. John W. Gardner I...

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