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August 2025

August 26, 2025

James Dobson’s Death Was the End of an Era

James Dobson's death last week marked the end of a particular era in conservative evangelical...

August 25, 2025

John Mark Comer, Penal Substitution, and Evangelical Power

Reformed Evangelical Concerns About Comer Escalate Over a hot summer August weekend in 2025, evangelicals...

August 24, 2025

Cracker Barrel, Anglican Converts, and Tradition’s Aesthetic

When I was in college, my Southern Baptist church back home went through a years-long...

August 21, 2025

Rediscovering Lost Scriptures: Two Astonishing Years

I have been writing about the modern rediscovery of ancient Jewish and Christian scriptures, including...

August 20, 2025

Zion: Televangelists and Worldwide Theocracy

[This is the third part in a three-part series that delves into the story of...

August 19, 2025

Is Faith Required for Reading the Bible Properly?

Who Reads Scripture Better: Scholars or Disciples? Who reads the Scriptures better—Bart Ehrman or my...

August 15, 2025

The Bells of Nagasaki Ring Again 80 Years Later

“I pray and strive for this bell of peace to continue ringing until the last...

August 14, 2025

The First Discovery of the Lost Scriptures

Some years back, I published a lot at this site on the general subject of...

August 13, 2025

Surprised by History: Telling the Story

I love to tell the story; 'tis pleasant to repeat what seems, each time I...

August 11, 2025

Interview with Historian Daniel K. Williams

In June 2010 I was privileged to meet Dr. Daniel Williams through a mutual acquaintance...

August 08, 2025

Les Misérables and Failed Revolutions

Thirty years ago a friend introduced my husband Tommy and I to the music...

August 07, 2025

1893: The Long Trajectories

In recent weeks, I have been writing extensively about the transformations that America experienced during...

August 05, 2025

What Do You Do With a Palimpsest?

As our guide walked with us out of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, he started...

July 2025

July 31, 2025

1893: Racial Crisis and White Supremacy

As I write about that amazing year of 1893, I have often used the language...

July 24, 2025

1893: Temperance, Trafficking, and the Defense of the Race

I recently blogged about the radical feminist theories in religion that emerged during that critical...

July 22, 2025

John MacArthur’s Expository Preaching

Much of the commentary about John MacArthur in the wake of his death last week...

July 21, 2025

Evangelical Church Camps and Privilege

Evangelical church camps found their ascendance in the twentieth century. The privilege of resort and...

July 18, 2025

Rachel Held Evans and the Specter of Scopes in Dayton

The Scopes trial, one of the most famous court cases in United States history, was...

July 17, 2025

1893: The Revolution in Understanding Crime and Sexuality

Have you ever used the words heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or masochistic? Or talked about sadomasochism?...

July 16, 2025

Zion: The Garden City of God

"The task of city design involves the vaster task of rebuilding our civilization." Lewis Mumford,...

July 15, 2025

Interpreting Christ’s Weakness: On Partitive Exegesis

For today's post, I'm going to focus a bit more on some of the theological...

July 11, 2025

Extracting Voices from the Archives: María de la Paz’s Story

Lynneth Miller Renberg’s discussion of archival silences and archival shouting in Listening to Archival Silence:...

July 10, 2025

1893: What Would Jesus Do To Improve the Race?

In 1893, Congregationalist minister Josiah Strong (1847-1916) was a leading figure in the Social Gospel...

July 09, 2025

Min Jin Lee and the Art of Historical Fiction

Last month's post I briefly discussed the topic of summer reading. Before that post, I...

July 04, 2025

Does the Declaration of Independence Still Matter?

We love a nice round number—and 250 years since the U.S. War of Independence began...

July 03, 2025

1893: The Making of the American Empire

Dealing as it does in broadly national and patriotic themes, I think the following post...

July 01, 2025

The Cats of Cyprus (Church History on Vacation)

On a recent trip to Turkey and Greece, where I loved the churches, mosques, and...

June 2025

June 26, 2025

1893: Crash, Crisis, and Anti-Catholicism

In my current project on the early 1890s, I have written a good deal about...

June 24, 2025

The Real Significance of Dobbs

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade three years ago today in the case...

June 23, 2025

Trump’s God-Gilded Realpolitik Ended the 12-Day War

Apparently, the 12-day War is ending, all thanks to Trump's God-gilded realpolitik. What do I...

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