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August 2017

August 24, 2017

7 Women Who Shaped Christianity and Western Culture

Let me introduce you to seven women in the great cloud of witnesses.

August 23, 2017

Evangelical Silence and Trump: A Reformation Irony

I worry that evangelicals have become too comfortable with hiding our inaction behind the guise...

August 22, 2017

The Spiritual Spirit of St. Louis

The 1957 film version of Charles Lindbergh's memoir, Spirit of St. Louis, dispenses with much...

August 21, 2017

Crucible of Faith

My new book will be out shortly. This is Crucible of Faith: The Ancient Revolution...

August 18, 2017

A Book of Signs

I have been posting about the early chapters of John’s Gospel, and how an author

August 17, 2017

American Pilgrims and Pilgrimage Sites

As I alluded to in my first post in this series on the Mayflower separatists,...

August 16, 2017

Losing Faith in God

Elie Wiesel died one year ago at the age of 87. A ghastly genocide, one...

August 15, 2017

The Christian Communists of Rural Iowa

Chris shares the story of the Amana Colonies, whose "communistic" economy was inspired by pietistic...

August 14, 2017

Reading Robert Penn Warren

Like most people, I’ve been trying to get a read on American politics these days....

August 11, 2017

A Wedding at Cana

Over the past couple of years, I have posted several times on the Gospel of...

August 10, 2017

Reclaiming Life at Home: Declaring War on Clutter to Save the American Soul

Imagine for a moment a team of anthropologists walking through your door, taking a look...

August 09, 2017

Should Women Rule? Netflix’s The Crown and Complementarian Theology

Riding the London Eye is deceptively peaceful. The city that slowly unfolds below seems a...

August 08, 2017

The Religious History of Negro League Baseball

For decades, two of the most important institutions in African American life were the black...

August 07, 2017

The Aquatic Gospel

I have been discussing the story of Nicodemus in the Gospel of John, and particularly...

August 04, 2017

Placing Nicodemus

Depending on the church calendar you might follow, one day in early August commemorates St....

August 03, 2017

Pilgrims 400

In three years, various communities on both sides of the Atlantic will celebrate the four...

August 02, 2017

The End of the Mainline as America’s Public Conscience

This is Part II of my interview with Mark Lempke, author of the new book...

August 01, 2017

Christian Colleges, Sexuality, and “Cultural Waterloo”

I don’t know Carl Trueman or Rod Dreher, but I do know many people who...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

What to do about what’s wrong with America

One of the happy characteristics of America, mythical or actual, is its hospitality to those...

July 28, 2017

Five Rivers Flowing Out Of Paradise

Five rivers flowed out of Paradise, and we all know their names. That may sound...

July 27, 2017

Who has the power to recalibrate the “Evangelical Paradigm”?

Today we welcome Janine Giordano Drake to the Anxious Bench. Janine is Assistant Professor of History...

July 26, 2017

Prosperity Gospel Apocalypse: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s PTL Empire

The Bakker’s had become proponents of the prosperity gospel, a message that fit the 1980s...

July 25, 2017

How a Non-Western Non-Christian Can Help American Christians Think About Western Civilization

How the Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo both celebrated and criticized Western civilization -...

July 24, 2017

The Last Religion Standing

What will be the last religion standing?

July 21, 2017

Ancient Pagan Ways, Continued

I did quite a few blogposts last year about the possible survival of ancient pagan...

July 20, 2017

The Anabaptist Judith

From the Anxious Bench archives... Things were not going well in Münster (in present-day northwestern...

July 19, 2017

George McGovern and the Religious Left

I'm pleased to post this interview with Mark Lempke, who just published the terrific book...

July 18, 2017

What Makes Protestants “Protestant”?

What makes Protestants "Protestant"? A new history suggests that it's not about Reformation doctrines or...

July 17, 2017

“The Riddle of the Religious Other”

Often I have been asked about putting together a grant proposal or a book prospectus....

July 14, 2017

The World Set Free

Sometimes you see phrases and passages that are so provocative that they cry out to...

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