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June 2017

June 06, 2017

The Anxious Bench’s Favorite Historic Sites East of the Mississippi

Let The Anxious Bench help you plan your summer travels, as we share some of...

June 05, 2017

Does Hamilton Have to Sing?

Step away from that soundtrack! Last month Library of America released The Essential Hamilton by...

June 02, 2017

Alternative Scriptures: Jesus, the Zadokites, and the Women’s Home Companion

I have been posting on the modern discovery of Biblical Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha, and suggesting...

June 01, 2017

Slow Cooking: The College Classroom and American Civic Life

Today we welcome Will Katerberg to the Anxious Bench. Will is Professor of History at...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Lysa TerKeurst, Bible Gateway, and Fides ex Auditu: the Biblical Heart of Medieval Faith

Several months ago I heard a catchy phrase preached in a sermon. But it wasn't...

May 30, 2017

Mike Pence, “Orientation to Authority,” and Public Uses of Romans 13

When Vice President Mike Pence told Naval Academy graduates on Friday that they should "submit......

May 29, 2017

Alternative Scriptures: Finding Sirach

I have been posting about the astonishing wave of scriptural and Bible-related discoveries at the...

May 26, 2017

Alternative Scriptures: Beyond the New Testament

Many believe that only in recent times have we rediscovered the extraordinary breadth and complexity...

May 24, 2017

John Donne, Redone

"John Donne, Anne Donne, Undone." According to one later account, so the Elizabethan and early...

May 24, 2017

“Peace I leave with you”: Christianity, History, and Nuer Culture in South Sudan

Guest blogger Noel Stringham reflects on what he has learned about Scripture, history, and peace...

May 23, 2017

Are There Good Religious History Books for Children?

The children's religious book market is booming... so why are there so few good church...

May 22, 2017

Evangelicals and Christian Unity

[Recently, I gave a talk at Gordon College (where I formerly taught) on commemorating the...

May 21, 2017

Dr. Who and the Vatican

Last night’s Dr. Who episode, “Extremis,” presented some vicious media stereotypes of Catholicism… well, no,...

May 19, 2017

Alternative Scriptures: Which Old Testament?

In 1915, the Kansas City Star published a short religion column on the theme of...

May 18, 2017

10 Things Christians Get Wrong About Feminism

“Christian feminism” is an oxymoron. …and “secular feminism” is a tautology. Yes, there are certainly...

May 17, 2017

The Bible in Medieval Sermons: Part I for Understanding the Top Ten Bible Verses in Medieval England

My husband recently noted in his facebook series on local church highlights in Waco, TX,...

May 16, 2017

What’s the Future of the Evangelical Past?

Are we at the end of one era in the history of evangelicalism and the...

May 15, 2017

Alternative Scriptures: From Qumran to Christ

Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s, many writers have...

May 12, 2017

Alternative Scriptures: The First Discovery of Qumran

As I remarked, the early twentieth century was a thrilling time for anyone interested in...

May 11, 2017

The End of American Evangelicalism

Amid the semester's end, the following is adapted and slightly updated from the Anxious Bench archives... One...

May 10, 2017

Why Bother With “Diversity” in Christian Higher Education?

Guest blogger Andrea Turpin reflects on the value of diversity in Christian higher education, as...

May 09, 2017

Teaching as an Act of Wonder

Teaching as an act of wonder: wondering at, wondering if, wondering while, wondering with, and...

May 08, 2017

Could Protestants Reclaim Purgatory?

George Saunders's novel Lincoln in the Bardo springs from an actual historical event, but ends up...

May 05, 2017

Alternative Scriptures and Necessary Amnesia

It is difficult to think of a modern "radical" theory about Christian origins that was...

May 04, 2017

Fairness for All: A Call for Culture Peacemakers?

For nearly half a century, American Christians have, to greater and lesser degrees, embraced the...

May 04, 2017

Spreading the Faith: Other Paths

Recently, I was writing about issues of mission, migration and religious change. It occurs to...

May 03, 2017

Top Ten Bible Verses in Medieval England

The verses we emphasize say a lot about what we believe as Christians. So what...

May 02, 2017

The Three Journeys of the Christian Liberal Arts

Over the weekend I gave the keynote address for the annual Honors Symposium at Crown College,...

May 01, 2017

Languages of Command

I posted recently about how people in many (most) societies mix and match different languages,...

April 2017

April 28, 2017

People Like Us

Earlier this year, President Trump complained about the media’s failure to pay due attention to...

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