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April 2018

April 19, 2018

Christianity and Evangelicalism

As prominent evangelical leaders gather this week at Wheaton, IL, to discuss how the Trump...

April 18, 2018

Scamming for God? The Tale of (Another) Huckster Preacher Kirbyjon Caldwell

Today I am pleased to welcome Jonathan Root to The Anxious Bench. Jonathan Root is...

April 17, 2018

41% of Americans Don’t Know What Auschwitz Was?!?

What a dismal headline for Holocaust Remembrance Day: Americans are forgetting the Holocaust. At least, that...

April 16, 2018

On Getting Churches Totally Wrong

There is a widespread impression that the US mass media are deeply anti-Christian, and that...

April 13, 2018

The Dancer and the Hero

In April 1968, Martin Luther King jr was assassinated in Memphis, and we have heard...

April 12, 2018

The Politics of “Christianity”: An Interview with Matthew Bowman

Matthew Bowman is a historian whose work ranges widely over the intersection of religion, politics,...

April 11, 2018

Falwell vs. Claiborne: A Report from Lynchburg

What Liberty University and the Red Letter Revival in Virginia can tell us about the...

April 10, 2018

Evangelicals in Lynchburg: A Photo Essay

We recently returned from Lynchburg, Virginia, home of Liberty University and the site of the...

April 09, 2018

Christianity and Other Religions

Growing religious diversity, global conflicts that have a religious dimension, and the modern rise of...

April 06, 2018

Remembering a Lost Holy City

My last post looked at arguments for the dating of the four canonical gospels as...

April 05, 2018

Will Beth Moore Help Save Evangelicalism?

"Lord, I repent of ways I've been complicit in & contributed to misogyny & sexism...

April 04, 2018

April 4, 50 Years Out

Fifty years. Fifty years since the shot rang out. Since Martin Luther King Jr. was...

April 03, 2018

4 Questions to Answer Before You Decide on a College

Are you (or your child) trying to decide where to go for college? Chris suggests...

April 02, 2018

Dating By Apocalypse

When I write about the canonical gospels, as I often do, I follow a commonly...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

Porn and the American Presidency

In 1976, many evangelical supporters of Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter were disillusioned when the presidential...

March 30, 2018

Walking on the Water, Revisited

I am here expanding a column I posted on this site back in 2014. I...

March 29, 2018

Play Ball! On Christianity and Baseball in American History

On this rare occasion that major league baseball opens its season on Maundy Thursday, Chris...

March 29, 2018

Mormon Priesthoods

"Mary A. young admited into the hiest orderer Preasthood," Brigham Young wrote in his diary...

March 28, 2018

The Feminisms of Madeline L’Engle and Betty Friedan

Though she did not overtly situate her work within feminist conversations, L’Engle nonetheless points toward...

March 27, 2018

Christian Responses to the Eugenics Movement

In the 1920s eugenics was controversial but in the mainstream of American society — with...

March 26, 2018

Can Surrogacy Be a Christian Ministry?

Recently Christianity Today offered Kate Shellnutt’s report of a new baby boom: more evangelical women...

March 23, 2018

The Church in the Mainstream

I have been posting about the years around 200 as marking a decisive, formative, moment...

March 22, 2018

Defining Evangelicalism and the Problem of Whiteness

Do you approve of the way Trump is handling his job as President? If you’re...

March 21, 2018

Paul Interrupted: A Medieval Perspective

Just a few years ago, my entire family (parents, siblings, aunts, and my grandfather) attended...

March 20, 2018

The Bishop’s Boys: Religion and the Wright Brothers

About a month after my editor first mentioned the name of Charles Lindbergh to me,...

March 19, 2018

The Church of Many Voices

As I study the early history of Christianity, I become ever more interested by one...

March 16, 2018

On Gratitude and the Christian Liberal Arts

Chris shares his gratitude for the students, parents, and colleagues who make possible his work.

March 16, 2018

Mary Magdalene’s Myth: The Latest Chapter

Not having seen the big production new film of Mary Magdalene (Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara,...

March 15, 2018

John the Baptist’s Head

From the Anxious Bench archives: When I ask students to read and generate questions about the Gospel...

March 14, 2018

A Wrinkle in Time and the Gospel of the Third Way

If Madeleine L’Engle’s portrayal of communism as the evil "other" was not unusual, her antidote...

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