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December 2018

December 13, 2018

Beyond Chrismukkah: An Interview with Samira Mehta

It’s December, the month for feasting on latkes and Buche de Noel, lighting menorahs...

December 12, 2018

A Tale of Two Mennonite Pastors: Siblings, Gender, and How to Disagree

Today we welcome Regina Wenger to the Anxious Bench. Regina is a doctoral student in...

December 11, 2018

The Past As It Should Have Happened

Historians often say that they study the past "as it actually happened." But they can't...

December 10, 2018

After the Missions Closed

The Washington Post recently ran a story with stunning implications for the history of Christian...

December 07, 2018

Pearl Harbor and the Lost Poet

On the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, I am thinking about a writer whose reputation has...

December 05, 2018

The Bushes and the Religious Right

At this fleeting moment of civil (in two senses of the word) religion while Americans...

December 05, 2018

The Amish Farmer and the Pietist Prince

Wrestling with my Anabaptist heritage during a recent trip to Germany

December 04, 2018

Advent: The Most Apocalyptic Time of the Year

Reading a new collection of sermons by Fleming Rutledge got Chris thinking about the implications...

December 03, 2018

Bleak Days for a Chosen People

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, Thomas Jefferson famously...

November 2018

November 30, 2018

First and Second Comings

The season of Advent begins this year on Sunday, December 2. I am adapting here...

November 29, 2018

If Trump were a Democrat: A Fantasy

Today we welcome George Marsden back to the Anxious Bench. One of the preeminent historians...

November 28, 2018

How To Get Into A History PhD Program

It is the most nerve-wracking time of the year. PhD hopefuls have uploaded finely-honed applications...

November 27, 2018

Stay With Us: The Pietism of Hans Nielsen Hauge

The story of Hans Nielsen Hauge, the peasant-turned-lay preacher who revived Norwegian Christianity, challenged conventional...

November 26, 2018

Church Crisis in Ukraine

Sadly, because of the untowardly symbiotic relationship between Trump and the media covering him, many...

November 24, 2018

World War I and Christ the King Sunday

Why Christ the King Sunday is a religious legacy of World War I and its...

November 23, 2018

1918: Red Atlantis

I have been writing about the cultural and spiritual impact of the First World War,...

November 22, 2018

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, and Augustine

From the Anxious Bench archives... In Augustine's Confessions, at the end of a discussion of...

November 21, 2018

Why Kids in Kentucky Didn’t Dress Up as Pilgrims after the Civil War

And how is it that my own children now celebrate Thanksgiving in their Jessamine County...

November 20, 2018

Engaging Empathy, Disgust, and Lament

Guest blogger Karen Johnson reflects on the role of empathy, disgust, and lament in the...

November 19, 2018

1918: Apocalypse Then

I have written about the apocalyptic atmosphere that was so much in evidence in 1918,...

November 16, 2018

1918: The Good Soldier

I have posted a lot on the First World War era, and in some literary...

November 15, 2018

Refugee Politics and a Tale of Two Thanksgivings

Nearly forty years ago, a minister, a rabbi, and two priests went to the White...

November 14, 2018

Disrupting Evangelical Biblical Womanhood

I want to tell you two stories. The first one is really disturbing, so prepare...

November 13, 2018

How Different Are Mainline and Evangelical Protestantism?

Now attending a Lutheran church, Chris has been wondering just how permeable the boundary is...

November 12, 2018

1918: The Other Centennial

We have heard so much recently about the end of the First World War in...

November 11, 2018

100 Years After The Great War: “The Sheep That Were Not Fed”

On this 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Chris reflects on the...

November 09, 2018

1918: Did the War End Too Soon?

Did the First World War end too soon? At first sight, such a question might...

November 09, 2018

The Six Year Rule, and Why I Am Totally Certain What Will Happen in US Elections in 2020

This is something nobody would expect from me, namely a totally objective and non-partisan comment...

November 08, 2018

Mormon Pageants, Past, Present, and Future

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced that the Hill Cumorah Pageant will...

November 07, 2018

The Evangelical Party

As Watergate smolders, a Bible college student proposes an evangelical political party.

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