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August 2018

August 16, 2018

Rebecca Rawson

UPDATE: Since writing this post, I learned of D. Brenton Simons's Witches, Rakes, and Rogues: True...

August 15, 2018

Willow Creek, the Catholic Church, and Perils of Organizing Religion

In light of yet more abuse scandals in different churches, Chris wrestles with the costs...

August 15, 2018

Rainn Wilson, Dwight Schrute, and the Search for Meaning in Postmodern America

In its radical individualism and stress on tolerance, Baha’i appears to be a religion invented...

August 14, 2018

Why We Teach: Inspiration for the Start of a New School Year

Before the start of another school year, Chris has some words of advice and inspiration...

August 13, 2018

College Parties and Christian Ethics

Can theology fix the college-party scene? In a recent book, College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics,...

August 10, 2018

The Painter, the Magi, and the Global Church

If you have ever visited a major art gallery, you have undoubtedly seen many, many,...

August 09, 2018

History and the Search for Meaning: The AB at CFH 2018

The Conference on Faith and History is celebrating its 50th anniversary this October, with a...

August 09, 2018

Evangelicalism is an Imagined Religious Community

Perhaps you’ve heard. One month ago, evangelical women “hit pause” on the culture wars. It...

August 08, 2018

Here We Go Again: Willow Creek and Pastoral Accountability

I was sitting on a picnic bench outside of the Navajo Nation capital when I...

August 07, 2018

“Education Is a Life”

As many of us prepare for the start of another school year, guest blogger Rachel...

August 06, 2018

1968: When Churches Live Through a Revolution

I have been sketching the (Christian) religious worlds of 1968, and the many critical changes...

August 03, 2018

1968: The Mother of the Modern

I ended my last post with a cliffhanger. I was writing about the religious dimensions...

August 02, 2018

Puritan Cruelty and Quaker Suffering

In the fall of 1658, Massachusetts passed a law that threatened banished Quakers with death....

August 01, 2018

Carter’s malaise speech still matters four decades later

Nearly 40 years ago, on July 15, 1979, President Jimmy Carter went on national television...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

Loving America Under Its “Least Patriotic President”

Chris suggests "what a Christian patriotism might look like under a president whose love of...

July 30, 2018

God and E.T.

Driving home from an evening out several weeks ago, a debate broke out in the...

July 27, 2018

1968: Fifty Years On

In recent months I have been lecturing and teaching quite a bit on key anniversaries...

July 26, 2018

Don’t Just Change Refugee Policy—Change the People in the Pews

Melissa argues that Christians outraged by the current family separation crisis need to transform government policies—but...

July 25, 2018

To Submit or Not to Submit? A Medieval Woman’s Tale….

It was a bright, sunny day in King's Lynn last week. A faint breeze of...

July 24, 2018

The Religious History of the State Fair

Chris looks back at the role of religion in the history of one of America's...

July 23, 2018

Of Human Life and Human Disobedience

Fifty years ago, in July 1968, the Vatican issued the encyclical Humanae Vitae, “Of Human...

July 20, 2018

America 2040: The Church of The Rest

My current work on strictly contemporary US history means that I am spending a lot...

July 19, 2018

Narratives of Quaker Suffering

Despite their macabre subject matter, Quaker persecution narratives add color to histories of seventeenth-century New...

July 18, 2018

The Hare with Amber Eyes

I'm on a break from blogging as I conduct research in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. If...

July 17, 2018

Meet Our Newest Contributor: Melissa Borja

Meet our newest contributor: Melissa Borja, a specialist on the history of migration, religion, and...

July 16, 2018

Children’s Advocates: New England Puritans

Children are very much with us in summer. If this summer's most disheartening images feature...

July 13, 2018

Apu and the World of 2040

I am presently writing a book about US history over the past two decades or...

July 12, 2018

Biblical Porn: Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire

Feminist anthropologist Jessica Johnson has just published a fascinating study, Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and...

July 10, 2018

The Religious Biography of FDR

While evangelicals rarely perceive Christian influences on the New Deal, a recent religious biography argues...

July 09, 2018

All Gone To Look For America

My present book project is unusual, even by my standards. I am writing a history...

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