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November 2018

November 06, 2018

When Evangelicals Affirmed Women as Preachers and Evangelists

While the Evangelical Free Church no longer ordains women, two of its founders celebrated the...

November 05, 2018

We Need A Little Puritanism

“A little Puritanism would help us all.” This striking recommendation comes from Commonweal magazine’s Paul...

November 02, 2018

After the Massacre

Normally, I’d be overjoyed to receive a bunch of writing commissions from prestigious outlets like...

November 01, 2018

Why is Fear an Evangelical Habit of Mind?

This past weekend, a man entered a Pittsburgh synagogue and massacred 11 people gathered for...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

Why Evangelical Christians Are Afraid of Halloween

We carved pumpkins again this year. I still had to clean out the insides, but...

October 30, 2018

The Religious History of the Space Race

On the complicated religious history of the space race: while NASA was "no bastion of...

October 29, 2018

Where Did All The Ethnics Go?

Somewhere over the past twenty years or so, a once-key concept in American history, and...

October 28, 2018

On Celebrating Reformation Sunday after a Synagogue Shooting

In the wake of yesterday's mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, Chris spent Reformation Sunday...

October 26, 2018

The Last Days of Mankind

We are presently commemorating the centennial of the end of the First World War, and...

October 25, 2018

Rebecca Rawson: Part II

A blog post sometimes serves as a forum to try out an idea that is...

October 24, 2018

The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: An Interview with Melani McAlister

David Swartz interviews Melani McAlister about her new book

October 23, 2018

First Man: The Spiritual (But Not Religious) Life of Neil Armstrong

Like his hero Charles Lindbergh, astronaut Neil Armstrong defied conventional categories of religious belief and...

October 22, 2018

Reading Boswell’s Johnson

For pleasure reading, I have lately been dipping into James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson....

October 19, 2018

Counting Believers

I recently described the problems that occur in making and understanding social statistics. Now I...

October 18, 2018

Public Charge Rules Aren’t Just About “Self-Sufficiency”

Throughout U.S. history, “public charge” rules have been a powerful instrument of excluding immigrants on...

October 17, 2018

Why I am Speaking Out for Evangelical Women

The same afternoon Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court, one of my friends sent...

October 16, 2018

Beyond Empathy: On Historical Disgust and Lament

Historians often celebrate the value of empathy. But a recent talk about sexual abuse in...

October 15, 2018

Of Statistics and Other Mythical Beasts

Statistics interpret the world we see, and they make the world we know. When we...

October 12, 2018

Three Gnostic Books

I write a lot about alternative non-canonical scriptures, and the diverse Christianities they represent. One...

October 11, 2018

Conference on Faith and History

I do not attend very many conferences. There are several reasons for this. Mostly, I...

October 10, 2018

Further Thoughts from CFH 2018: Historians and the Church

Three more reflections from the 2018 meeting of the Conference on Faith and History consider...

October 09, 2018

Highlights from the 2018 Conference on Faith and History

Days after returning from Grand Rapids, I'm still digesting all the speeches, papers, and conversations...

October 08, 2018

Puritans Were Right: Stop Checking Your Email

The Puritan logic of the Sabbath does much better than our current advice to guard...

October 05, 2018

Suffragettes, Gnostics, and the Divine Feminine

I have blogged a great deal on a variety of topics we can loosely call...

October 04, 2018

Evangelicals, Let’s Talk About Violence Against Women

So, it turns out close to half of all white evangelicals think Brett Kavanaugh should...

October 03, 2018

My First Sermon: The Faith of a Woman

I teach and research sermons. Two weeks ago, on September 11, I had the privilege...

October 02, 2018

The Tender, Gracious God of My Favorite Hymn Writer

"No one can sing of the free gift of grace like Lina Sandell," said one...

October 01, 2018

Blok and The Twelve

This column grows out of my recent series on the city of Ravenna, and its...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

God’s Ambassadors

September 29 is the feast of Michael the Archangel, Michaelmas, and the feasts of Gabriel...

September 26, 2018

Sexual Misconduct in Seventeenth-Century New England

Partly because they took church discipline so seriously, New England Congregationalists tended to act mercifully...

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