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February 2018

February 01, 2018

Why Evangelicals Stick with President Trump

I chafe a bit at the suggestion that there are no legitimate or understandable reasons...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

Cultivating Respectability at Moody Bible Institute

Efforts to secure white, middle-class respectability are nothing new at Moody Bible Institute.

January 30, 2018

Some Thoughts on “Christian Scholars’ Distribution Problem”

Chris shares some reflections on being a Christian scholar who blogs and podcasts.

January 29, 2018

The Best Study-Abroad Program in Christian Higher Ed

American Christian higher education boasts many worthy study-abroad programs. But one shines with special luster:...

January 27, 2018

Tom Brady versus Jesus Christ

Tom Brady describes his spirituality as a bit uncertain and eclectic. Raised Roman Catholic, he...

January 26, 2018

Slavery, Euphemism, and the New Testament

Translation is a difficult and devious process. You can render the individual words used perfectly...

January 25, 2018

Remembering the Holocaust — and the Victims Who Documented It

On Saturday the world will again mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the anniversary of...

January 24, 2018

Could Medieval Women Preach? Stop Using Paul Against Women Pt 3

Two days ago, John Piper answered the question of a male seminary student at Desiring...

January 23, 2018

An Open Letter to Anyone with $75 Million to Give to Christian Colleges

In the wake of Johns Hopkins University announcing a major gift for its philosophy department,...

January 22, 2018

The Square and the Tower

British historian Niall Ferguson recently published The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the...

January 19, 2018

Supernatural Histories, German and American

I have blogged repeatedly on various esoteric and occult themes, including Freemasonry and Theosophy, so...

January 18, 2018

Foreigners Out!

From the moment Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency, I have deeply disliked...

January 17, 2018

Crusade University and the Limits of Evangelical Intellectualism

Why Crusade University never got off the ground

January 16, 2018

Jessica Hahn and Evangelical Silence on Sexual Abuse

We are so pleased to welcome back John Wigger to the Anxious Bench. John Wigger...

January 14, 2018

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Great Cloud of Witnesses

Every time I come to work at Bethel University, I pass a display that includes two quotations...

January 12, 2018

Reading Year 2018! in Year 2018

In my teenage years, I operated on the assumption that real life was a crutch...

January 11, 2018

How to Solve Christian Scholarship’s Distribution Problem

On the Anxious Bench we’ve been discussing the continuing need for Christian scholarship, and the...

January 10, 2018

It’s Time to Stop Using Paul Against Women: A Short Reading List

This summer I went to the National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery in London for...

January 09, 2018

A Brief History of the Children’s Sermon

When did Christian worship services start to include a brief children's sermon? Chris does some...

January 08, 2018

What Athanasius Decided

The New York Times recently published a wonderful article entitled A Fragile Biblical Text Gets...

January 06, 2018

Does the Truth Set You Free Or Just Make You Less Smart?

Alex Stone startled in a recent New York Times op-ed, “Is Your Child Lying to...

January 05, 2018

Grasped by Darkness

The Christmas readings in our church featured the magnificent Prologue to John’s Gospel, about the...

January 04, 2018

The First LDS Succession

With the death of the LDS president, it's good to know how transitions of power...

January 03, 2018

Crusade University and the Intellectual Ambitions of Evangelicals

The story of evangelicals' attempt to launch an Ivy League-quality research university in the 1950s

January 02, 2018

The First Methodist President?

Chris considers the role of religion in the life of Ulysses S. Grant, the first...

January 01, 2018

On (Dante’s) Paradise

Dorothy Sayers once quipped that attempting to grasp Dante’s Divine Comedy only from reading the...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

Our Next War Debate

My blogs normally address some kind of religious issue, and this one, strictly speaking, does...

December 28, 2017

The Anxious Bench Year in Review: 2017

From evangelicalism to Trump to #MeToo... the 25 most-read Anxious Bench posts of 2017

December 27, 2017

It is Time to Stop Using Paul Against Women: A New Year’s Resolution for Christians

“I hate Paul.” I can’t tell you how many times I have heard that from...

December 26, 2017

Why the Second Day of Christmas Matters

Why the second day of Christmas is a good moment to contemplate a topic New...

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