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September 2018

September 26, 2018

Fundamentalist Mormons, Essential Oils, and the Antiestablishment Gospel

Tara Westover on the context of her family's essential oils business

September 25, 2018

The Niemöller Moment for American Christians

American evangelicals and other Trump supporters have already wasted their "Bonhoeffer moment," argues Chris. But...

September 24, 2018

Missionaries and Imperialism

Amid the welter of truth claims in the modern academy, one towers above all others:...

September 21, 2018

Sages Standing In God’s Holy Fire

I have been writing about a recent visit to Ravenna, a place that can have...

September 20, 2018

The Ritual of Saying Goodbye to the Family Dog

I live in New York City, which is the greatest city in the world, but...

September 19, 2018

Surviving the Academic Job Market Part 2: Interviewing Well

I have served on academic faculty since 2003. I have participated in a LOT of...

September 18, 2018

The Religious History of the World’s Most Famous Hospital

What is now the Mayo Clinic began with a partnership between Protestant doctors and Franciscan...

September 17, 2018

Art, Liturgy, and Eternity

I have been describing the amazing churches and religious buildings of the city of Ravenna....

September 14, 2018

Ravenna

I recently fulfilled a lifetime ambition with a visit to the city of Ravenna, one...

September 12, 2018

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God

The most famous chain of events during what Americans came to call King Philip's War...

September 12, 2018

Before Evangelicals Believed in Family Values

That evangelicals are pro-family is one of the ironies of American religious history

September 11, 2018

Good Night Stories for Rebel Christian Girls

Chris reviews a popular children's collection of biographies that largely neglects the role of religion...

September 10, 2018

Myers-Briggs Doesn’t Know Who You Are

Why do we need someone else to tell us who we are? And if we...

September 07, 2018

Visiting the Fifth Century

Some years ago, I wrote a book titled Jesus Wars, about the Christological controversies of...

September 06, 2018

Hobby Lobby Evangelicalism

Is evangelicalism a political movement? There’s been a lot of talk about how to define...

September 05, 2018

Surviving the Academic Job Market: Two Baylor History Success Stories

It is difficult to achieve a full-time faculty appointment in History. A 2017 article in...

September 04, 2018

Poetry of the Air

Since the dawn of aviation, certain pilots have turned to poetry to express the inexpressible...

September 03, 2018

The Green Isle of the Great Deep

Through authors like C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, fantasy literature has not...

September 02, 2018

The Deadest Orthodoxy of American Evangelicalism

Over the weekend, Twitter has hosted a debate about the resurrection — a belief that many...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Writing and Publishing in Academe

In my teenage years, I used to loathe “Back to School” signs in stores. I...

August 30, 2018

Evangelicalism: A Political Movement?

John Fea, in what has become a must-read age-of-Trump blog about American religion, quotes from...

August 29, 2018

The Apocalyptic Billy Graham

Franklin Graham, Eric Metaxas, and other court evangelicals remind us of the apocalyptic side of...

August 28, 2018

The Smell of History

What does the past smell like? Chris shares a couple of historically evocative aromas from...

August 27, 2018

What Exactly is “Tradition”?

I am currently preparing an edited book manuscript for publication with the working title of...

August 24, 2018

Golfing Alone

You may not spend time worrying about the state of golf and the shrinking membership...

August 23, 2018

Crazy Rich Christian Asians

In Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, a wealthy family in Singapore considers a real...

August 22, 2018

There And Back Again: Advice For History PhD Students

I am afraid of heights. I first realized it when I was 16. I had...

August 21, 2018

Lena and the Zipline: A Parable of Learning and Courage

What Chris learned about student learning from his six-year old daughter...

August 20, 2018

Symbolic Crusades

Many years ago, somewhere in the early Jurassic era, I taught in a criminal justice...

August 17, 2018

Film and Faith: Losing the Plot

Not long ago, I commented on what a poor job Hollywood normally does of treating...

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