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May 2018

May 28, 2018

Wars of Faith

I have been posting about the book The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus, published in 1668...

May 25, 2018

Simplicissimus

I recently blogged about the Thirty Years War, which erupted in May 1618 – four...

May 24, 2018

A Hard Rain Fell: Robert Kennedy’s Assassination

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy will always remain linked, and...

May 23, 2018

Death (and Life) Comes to the Archbishop

“I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die having lived.”

May 22, 2018

The Religious History of Sherlock Holmes

Chris considers the religious history of Sherlock Holmes on the birthday of his creator.

May 21, 2018

Every Bride and Groom is a Royal Couple

The royal wedding is behind us. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex doubtless are among...

May 19, 2018

The Centuries-Old Words of a Modern Royal Wedding

One of the oldest elements of today's rather modern royal wedding - the liturgy -...

May 18, 2018

Red Easter

I am here reprinting and adapting a column I wrote for this blog back in...

May 17, 2018

The Global-Church Industrial Complex

Today we welcome David W. Congdon to the Anxious Bench. David is acquisitions editor at the...

May 16, 2018

Is There Hope for Evangelical Women?

My daughter and I were walking our new puppy when my phone buzzed. It was...

May 15, 2018

Giving Wings to the Gospel: The Origins of Missionary Aviation

The same year that Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic, an Australian Presbyterian and a...

May 14, 2018

A Death in the Desert

I recently posted about a nineteenth century response to the rise of Biblical Higher Criticism....

May 11, 2018

The Amber Witch and the Higher Criticism

In the early nineteenth century, German scholars launched an intellectual revolution that transformed attitudes to...

May 10, 2018

Pilgrims and Puritans

"Pilgrim" just has a much nicer ring to most eyes than "puritan." On one level,...

May 09, 2018

From Mennonite Pacifist to Marxist Revolutionary

The journey of a Mennonite woman from rural Kansas to international radicalism

May 08, 2018

Why Beth Moore’s Letter Makes Me Hopeful

Chris reflects on the significance of Beth Moore as an emerging leader of evangelicalism in...

May 07, 2018

After Genocide . . . in Bosnia

Only out of the past can you make the future,” says a character in Robert...

May 04, 2018

Making Monks, Forming Souls

I have been reading an important new book called Monasteries and the Care of Souls...

May 03, 2018

Poisonous History and Its Antidote: Christian Nationalism, Black History, and New Beginnings

On April 26, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, Alabama, opened its...

May 02, 2018

The Myth of Biblical Womanhood?

In 2012, Rachel Held Evans—a New York Times bestselling author of American Christianity--wrote a stunningly...

May 01, 2018

The Cold War Origins of a Christian Alternative to May Day

In May 1991 the Catholic Church marked the 100th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the Industrial...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

From Justice, Good Lord Deliver Us

In my last post, I criticized the idea that Christians should not cooperate with the...

April 27, 2018

When Churches Don’t Call the Police

The Washington Post recently decided to create a radical church-based social movement. According to the...

April 26, 2018

Book Review: The Way of Jesus

An aspiring scholar of English literature once bumped into W.H. Auden on Oxford's High Street....

April 25, 2018

Standing by Graves, Practicing Resurrection: History as Christian Vocation

After writing eulogies for three colleagues in the last three years, Chris reflects on what...

April 24, 2018

Did Evangelicals “Kidnap” the Word Evangelical?

Did evangelicals kidnap the word "evangelical" from other Christians? If so, says Chris, they were...

April 23, 2018

Does Everything Happen For a Reason?

Life is hard. Sometimes it is very hard, pain beyond the ordinary forecast for the...

April 21, 2018

New Mormon Leadership: Initial Thoughts

On April 1, 2018, the usually stolid hierarchy of the Church of Jesus Christ of...

April 20, 2018

Forgetting the Thirty Years War

Some of the greatest events in human history simply fail to register in popular consciousness....

April 19, 2018

The Church of James Dobson?

Is Focus on the Family a church? It depends who you ask. And it depends...

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