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December 2017

December 25, 2017

Reading Caedmon at Christmas

Christmas is at once a feast of Creation and Incarnation, as the two stories are...

December 22, 2017

God’s Other Son

Yes, there is another son of God in the gospels.

December 20, 2017

Jim Bakker and PTL

There’s a reason why Hollywood loves to caricature evangelists as money-grubbing, secretly sex-crazed hypocrites. It’s...

December 20, 2017

Blaming the Victim: Billy Sunday and Male Power

How evangelicals abet a culture of masculine aggression

December 19, 2017

Last-Minute Christmas Gift Ideas for History Buffs

Still trying to find a Christmas gift for the history buff in your life? Chris...

December 18, 2017

Locked Up

The Florentine landmark Le Murate, on Via Ghibellina near where the Ponte alla Grazie crosses...

December 15, 2017

Witches, Witchcraft, and Ronald Hutton

I have blogged a lot on themes of paganism, "folk horror," and witchcraft, so this...

December 14, 2017

Can “Evangelicalism” Survive Trump?

Back in the 1980s, Ronald Wells announced that he would like to resign as an...

December 13, 2017

Medieval Christmas Tradition Behind Sausage Roll Jesus Controversy

Greggs, the largest UK bakery chain, recently sparked outrage among Christians. It created a Nativity...

December 12, 2017

Queen Elizabeth, Billy Graham, and the Faith of The Crown

What the TV series The Crown reveals about the Christian faith of Queen Elizabeth II...

December 11, 2017

Reinventing Christianity After Rome

I have been posting about the collapse of Roman society in Britain in the fifth...

December 08, 2017

Infidels, Demons, Witches, and Quakers

I have an article out in the new issue of Fides et Historia, under the...

December 07, 2017

Thomas Hooker and the Terror of God

Thomas Hooker frequently compared the relationship between God and human beings to a king who...

December 06, 2017

When Evangelicals Campaigned for Family Values

On the campaign against loose morals in the 1920s and how contemporary support for Roy...

December 05, 2017

Can Christian Scholarship Thrive in Christian Colleges?

I've often said that I try to approach blogging as "thinking in public." But this...

December 04, 2017

Death of a Business

After World War II America’s economy roared to life. Wartime energies found themselves redirected to...

December 01, 2017

Divination – A Most Neglected Most Important Element of Religion

Now this is a treat! I was recently corresponding with the excellent English scholar of...

November 2017

November 30, 2017

Christian Scholarship’s Distribution Problem

Today’s guest post comes from Raully Donahue. Donahue took a PhD in European history...

November 29, 2017

Because Xmas really is Xpian…

This is from my Anxious Bench archives. It is still one of my favorites, even though...

November 28, 2017

Do Evangelicals Share a Common Story?

Is evangelical identity based on a shared story, a religious version of a national narrative?

November 27, 2017

Christian Apocrypha and Alternative Scriptures

At the recent meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston, I spoke on...

November 24, 2017

Warlords, War-bands, and Saints

Last time, I talked about the collapse of the old Roman order in Britain in...

November 23, 2017

Thanksgiving, 1676

In 1676, the residents of Plymouth feasted not on turkey and cranberries, but on the...

November 22, 2017

“Take an Indian to Lunch”

In “Take an Indian to Lunch,” Freberg sings about an early Puritan politician who strategically...

November 21, 2017

Lincoln’s Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving started in 1863 with Abraham Lincoln, who urged not just gratitude but humility and...

November 20, 2017

A Liturgy for Thanksgiving

There is enough fixity to the Thanksgiving menu to require a certain order in order...

November 17, 2017

A Lost Century, and a Slipped Date

I have posted often at this site on the subject of the “Dark Ages,” or...

November 16, 2017

Christian Scholarship, For Such a Time as This

I’ve got to be honest. There was a time, not long ago, when I had...

November 15, 2017

A Serious Proposal for Academic Conferences: Ban Harvey Weinsteins

It was during a major academic conference. A male colleague alerted me that a female...

November 14, 2017

Seeking Truth in a World “With Devils Filled”

Chris ponders the intersection of higher education with a topic to which he rarely gives...

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