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June 2025

June 20, 2025

Southern Baptists and the ‘Main Thing’

If you pay any attention to Southern Baptist media surrounding the SBC’s annual conventions, you...

June 19, 2025

1893: The Spiritual Revolution of New Thought

A current project of mine focuses on the year of 1893 as a critical turning...

June 18, 2025

Zion: America’s First Techno-Utopia

“All hail to the Printing Press and all its beautiful adjuncts, and all hail to...

June 17, 2025

Ancient Church Discipline: On Sin and Rehabilitation

Moral failings in the church are not a new phenomenon—to read the pages of Christian...

June 13, 2025

You Are Enough: Walking the Caminito de Santiago Compostela

“To go on pilgrimage is not simply to visit a place to admire its treasures...

June 12, 2025

1893: Reading the Bible Through the Eyes of Anthropology

My recent blogs have focused on the year 1893, which I believe marked multiple critical...

June 11, 2025

Summer Reading with Elie Wiesel

It is summer time and it is usually the season I try to get as...

June 09, 2025

Evangelicals, CRT, and the Genetic Fallacy

Recently I was discussing Critical Race Theory with a professor colleague of mine who in...

June 06, 2025

Why the Grandparent Effect Still Matters Today

The Grandparent Effect I didn’t grow up with a grandparent nearby. And while my parents...

June 05, 2025

Fire From Heaven: Whitsun and Pentecost

This post offer a translation between British and American English, and suggests why you really...

June 03, 2025

Listening to Archival Silence: History and Hidden Voices

Today’s post is a mix of methodological and personal musings, thinking about how our work...

June 02, 2025

A Rise in Black Christian Nationalism?

If you follow data and polling around religion and American politics, you’ve probably (whether knowingly...

May 2025

May 29, 2025

1893: Feminists, Hidden Gospels, Witches, and Occult Powers

I have been describing the cultural and spiritual transformations that occurred in the United States...

May 27, 2025

Chronicling the Elusive Joseph Smith

A review of John G. Turner, Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American...

May 23, 2025

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Who Can Be Called “Pastor”?

It's almost Southern Baptist Convention season again and, as the argument over women's roles in...

May 22, 2025

1893: Reading the Bible as Mythology

I am currently writing about the year 1893, and arguing that it was of immense...

May 21, 2025

When Did Pentecostals Start Liking the Pope?

Growing up Pentecostal, my introduction to Catholic life came slowly and almost accidentally when a...

May 20, 2025

Nicene Worship: Then and Now

I had the privilege of attending a conference in Rome on the Council of Nicaea...

May 16, 2025

From Sede Vacante to Habemus Papam: Welcoming Pope Leo XIV

Last Thursday morning, May 8, 2025, as I finished up a morning Zoom call with...

May 15, 2025

1893 And The Making of Modern America

There are years when everything seems to happen at once, years that shape conditions for...

May 14, 2025

Joan vs Joan: Feelings and Tanks

"Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things"—Joan Didion about Joan Baez (Didion, 48)...

May 13, 2025

Waterlilly: Kinship, History, and the Novel

"[T]here is no image of an American Indian intellectual" wrote the Lakota literary theorist Elizabeth...

May 09, 2025

Why Does a New Pope Matter? A Tale of Two Elections

So they elected a new pope. As a member of a Protestant denomination, I have...

May 08, 2025

Prince Gallitzin’s Pilgrim Trail

Last time, I wrote about Prince Demetrius Gallitzin, a Catholic priest of Russian origin, who...

May 06, 2025

What Makes a Pope Great? On Popes and Pastoral Care

With the recent passing of Pope Francis, there has been a lot of discussion about...

May 05, 2025

Saving Face: An Interview with Aimee Byrd

I agreed to interview Aimee Byrd about her new book, Saving Face: Finding Myself, God,...

May 01, 2025

Prince Gallitzin and Sacred Pennsylvania

Prince Gallitzin State Park is a beautiful site in west-central Pennsylvania, best known for a...

April 2025

April 24, 2025

Arthur Hugh Clough’s Hymn Against Easter and Resurrection

At special times of the year such as Easter, I always like to offer seasonally...

April 23, 2025

From the Archives: Learning from SBC Women’s Ministries

Editor's note: This post originally appeared on July 21, 2021. I spent last week researching...

April 22, 2025

Why Evangelicals Mourned John Paul II—but Not Francis

Pope Francis's Evangelical Critics Twenty years ago, when Pope John Paul II died, American evangelicals...

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