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November 2017

November 13, 2017

Inventing the Christian Priesthood

I’ve been discussing the Christian church at an early stage in its development, around 200...

November 11, 2017

4 Memorials for Remembrance Day

In honor of what most of the English-speaking world observes as Remembrance Day, Chris shares...

November 10, 2017

Inventing The Clergy

I have been working on the early church, mainly the era of Tertullian, around 200...

November 09, 2017

Praying in the Wake of Affliction

In 1687, a measles epidemic swept away many of Boston's children. Cotton Mather preached on...

November 08, 2017

African Spiritism Meets Halloween’s Ghouls in a Small Kentucky Town

Why global Christians are circumspect about Halloween

November 07, 2017

Addressing Barriers to Christian Involvement in Interfaith Engagement

Guest bloggers Sara Shady and Marion Larson address common objections to Christian participation in interfaith...

November 06, 2017

Why I Sing With a Hymnal

Beauty, unity, and history: why Chris insists on singing hymns out of a hymnal, even...

November 03, 2017

Living with the Gods

This is by way of a rave recommendation. If you have any taste for podcasts,...

November 02, 2017

American Christianity Needs More Sin

Sola gratia. By grace alone. With the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Protestants around the...

November 01, 2017

Top Ten DON’TS for Conference Presentations

I both love and hate conferences. I love them because of the free-flowing ideas and...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

The Best of The Anxious Bench: The Protestant Reformation

On this 500th anniversary of Luther's 95 Theses... some of the best Anxious Bench writing...

October 31, 2017

The Upside of Historical Amnesia As the Reformation Turns 500

That many people can’t remember what the Protestant Reformation was all about might not please...

October 30, 2017

The First Christians and the Urban Thesis

I recently posted on the question of Christian numbers around 200 AD. Since then, I...

October 27, 2017

Stealing Luther

The 500th anniversary of the Reformation offers plenty of opportunity to commemorate, but also to...

October 25, 2017

More Than a Tragic Necessity

More than a half-century ago, the great church historian Jaroslav Pelikan described the Reformation as...

October 25, 2017

Losing Faith in Humanity

Reflections on evil and the Holocaust

October 24, 2017

3 Ways to Remember the Reformation

How should we remember the Protestant Reformation?

October 23, 2017

Devotion to Luther and the Saints

Saints are not to be idolized, obviously, but nor are they supposed to be milked...

October 20, 2017

Immanentists

I recently discovered a new word that will be really useful for me in writing...

October 19, 2017

Me Too. And Why This is a Christian Problem.

Female “purity” was highly prized in Victorian Christianity, but a sexual double standard let men...

October 18, 2017

Romans 8:31, Chris Tomlin, And The Faith Of A Medieval Woman

"Water You turned into wine; Opened the eyes of the blind; There's no one like...

October 17, 2017

Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians

With the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's 95 Theses at hand, Chris looks back to...

October 16, 2017

From Wessex to the Exodus

Sometimes, scholarship from one era of history can throw quite unexpected light on a totally...

October 13, 2017

And Today’s Mystery Hymn Is ….

My church recently sang one of my favorite hymns, a hugely popular standard piece known...

October 12, 2017

Scripture ex materia

Each semester, I teach an introductory course on what my department not very accurately terms...

October 11, 2017

My Grandma and Colin Kaepernick

Reflections on my grandma and Colin Kaepernick's encounter with civil religion

October 10, 2017

Sola Fide: The Reformation Board Game

Chris and his young son test out a new Reformation board game, with amusing results.

October 09, 2017

On Mark Lilla’s The Shipwrecked Mind

A book review of mine on Mark Lilla's The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction (New...

October 06, 2017

Vietnam and the Anti-War Movement: The Missing Dimension

I have now watched the whole of the PBS documentary series on The Vietnam War....

October 05, 2017

Race Hatred, the Crime of the Age, and the Impotency of Christianity

It was the morning of October 16, 1893. The day dawned bright and frosty, and...

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