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July 2018

July 06, 2018

Out of the Backlands

I recently renewed an acquaintance with an old friend – a very old friend. For...

July 04, 2018

Christians and the Death Penalty

From the Anxious Bench archives: Why should Christians (and other Americans) oppose the death penalty, at...

July 04, 2018

Unexpected Sites of Christian Pacifism: Pentecostal Edition

I'm on a blogging break while conducting research in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I hope you...

July 03, 2018

“A Christian Country”: Debating America in 1939

Nowadays, we tend to associate the notion of the United States as a “Christian nation”...

July 02, 2018

Vatican II as Experienced at the Local Level

The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) is widely recognized as one of the most important religious...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

Faith, Fertility, and the Fate of American Religion

The United States just passed a critical statistical landmark, one that I think – I...

June 28, 2018

Immigration Exclusion as Religious Exclusion

Melissa Borja, assistant professor in American Culture at the University of Michigan, returns today to...

June 27, 2018

The Value of Failure in Graduate School

This is from my Anxious Bench archives. I currently am leaving for a research trip...

June 26, 2018

The Half-Year in Review

Counting down your favorite Anxious Bench posts from the first half of 2018

June 25, 2018

After the Age of Aquarius

I’m returning here to a theme I have raised in this blog in the past,...

June 22, 2018

A Christian Midsummer Night’s Eve

I am adapting the following from a column I published at real clear religion, back...

June 20, 2018

Evangelicals and the Devil’s Music

"Much of what animates evangelical churches in the twenty-first century," maintains Randall Stephens, "comes directly...

June 20, 2018

The Religious Left in Modern America

I’m pleased to welcome Doug Rossinow, a professor of history at the University of Oslo,...

June 19, 2018

Believe Me… You Should Read John Fea’s Book on Evangelical Support for Donald Trump

Chris reviews Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, in which John Fea explains...

June 18, 2018

Choice after Humanae Vitae

This summer marks the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae Vitae, the encyclical from Pope Paul VI...

June 15, 2018

The Inklings and King Arthur

It's hard to ignore the Inklings. They are a huge force both in high culture...

June 14, 2018

There Was No Good Biblical Reason to Give Mike Pence the SBC Stage

New Testament passages about honoring and praying for secular authorities, argues Chris, shouldn't have led...

June 14, 2018

The Problem with “Welcoming the Stranger”

Today we are pleased to welcome a new contributor to the Anxious Bench, Melissa...

June 13, 2018

Sorry, John Piper, (Medieval) Christianity Doesn’t Have A Masculine Feel

A carved image, about two feet tall, stands alone in a glass case in the...

June 12, 2018

The Anxious Bench’s Favorite Historic Sites in Europe

For many of us, summer is a time to leave home and explore other places....

June 11, 2018

The Mysteries of Reading

I have been posting about the 1668 novel The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus, by Johann...

June 08, 2018

Goads and Gods

Today we have a guest column. Some time ago, I referred to the Book of...

June 06, 2018

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship v. Wayne State University

In a masterpiece of a ruling, the Supreme Court this week declared that government employees...

June 06, 2018

Rock Piles and Elves: Secularism and the Supernatural in Iceland

How elves complicate the usual narrative of secularism in Iceland

June 05, 2018

Can Patheos Continue to “Host the Conversation on Faith”?

Two years after being invited to blog at Patheos, Chris reflects on the challenges facing...

June 04, 2018

The Imponderability of the Past

(We bloggers have been enjoined to post this summer on travels that we have taken...

June 01, 2018

Jupiter’s Other Prophecy

In my previous posts, I have discussed the 1668 novel The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

The Reinvention of “Evangelical” in American History: A Linguistic Analysis

by Hannah Butler and Kristin Du Mez Scan the headlines, and it seems that everywhere...

May 30, 2018

Paige Patterson Is My Fault, Too

For years, I attended complementarian churches. For years, I stayed silent in those churches--outwardly supporting...

May 29, 2018

The Plot Against America

A week after Philip Roth died, Chris considers his novel, The Plot Against America, in...

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