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January 2017

January 04, 2017

Studying Islam as a Christian Historian

What it's like to study the history of Islam as a Christian scholar? Bethel University...

January 03, 2017

Teaching the Great War Where It Was Fought

"You have the best job." So said an acquaintance at the Minnesota Historical Society earlier...

January 02, 2017

Lessons from a Portrait Project

Welcome, new year! By the end of 2016 it had become a little too fashionable to...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

Finding Jesus’s Mother

Over the Christmas season, we naturally hear so much about Jesus’s mother, Mary, and in...

December 29, 2016

Fear No Evil: Christian Witness in a Time of Darkness

A truck plows into crowds at a Berlin Christmas market. Heart-wrenching images from Aleppo disquiet...

December 28, 2016

A Tale of Two Pastors: Mark Driscoll and A (Medieval) New Year’s Proposal for the 2017 Church

This is a story of two pastors. The first was a vicar in the deanery...

December 27, 2016

Changes Coming in 2017 at The Anxious Bench

As is often the case with group blogs, change is a constant at The Anxious Bench. Just six...

December 26, 2016

Christmas and Epiphany, Birth and Baptism

You may have noticed an interesting theological debate currently under way among evangelicals. Critiquing the...

December 23, 2016

The Magi and the Cave of Treasures

As any Bible reader knows, the infant Jesus was visited by Magi, who brought gold,...

December 22, 2016

Christ Our Morning Star

Adapted from the Anxious Bench archives: My local Presbyterian church has a "Longest Night" service shortly...

December 21, 2016

A Very Not-So-Merry Christmas: How Protestantism Nearly Killed St. Nick

Relics and indulgences weren’t the only casualties of the Reformation. So was Christmas. Christmas was...

December 20, 2016

Adventures in Parenting as a Historian: The American Girl Books

On seeing history through the eyes of a seven year old, as she reads American...

December 19, 2016

The Most Influential Theologian You’ve Never Heard of

Who is Josef Kleutgen (1811-1883)? The name is not a household name, except in my...

December 17, 2016

Because Xmas really is Xpian…

This is from my Anxious Bench archives. I originally posted it December 2, 2015. But...

December 16, 2016

That REALLY Old Time Religion

Over the past few months, I have posted quite a few items on the subject...

December 15, 2016

Dispelling Darkness: A Christian Paradox

Tis the season. Christmas music is everywhere. I’m not a complete Grinch when it comes...

December 14, 2016

The Peace of Christmas during the Pain of Life

In the far west of England, almost to Wales, the medieval spire of St. Alkmund's...

December 13, 2016

A Very Nazi Christmas

Under National Socialism, Christmas in Germany featured a mix of de-Christianized traditions, neopagan rituals, and...

December 12, 2016

Mel Brooks and Teaching European History

I dearly love Mel Brooks as a comedian, but I do have some quarrels with...

December 10, 2016

The Problems of Writing Biography (Part 3 – Evidence and Imagination)

Why historians and biographers must often tell stories imaginatively, on the basis of relatively little...

December 09, 2016

A Different World: Teaching Americans about European History

I have often taught courses focused on Europe, or in which Europe plays a substantial...

December 08, 2016

The Saint as Marriage Counselor

One of the greatest Celtic saints was Colmcille, or Columba, who lived from c.521-597. About...

December 07, 2016

You Might Be a Mennonite If…

Ervin Beck, a folklorist at Goshen College, recalls growing up in a Mennonite congregation where...

December 06, 2016

The Christmas Truce of 1914: Myth and History

On December 24-25, 1914, soldiers on both sides of World War I put down their...

December 05, 2016

Indiana’s Other Claim to 2016 Fame

A big day is nearly upon us. Not as big as Christmas, but not small...

December 03, 2016

The Problems of Writing Biography (Part 2 – Who’s Significant?)

Why are most biographies about men with political and military power? How do we decide...

December 02, 2016

Churches, Chapels, and Desirable Residences

At a recent Sunday service, my church sang the hymn “Come thou fount of every...

December 01, 2016

The Crisis of Corporate Evangelicalism (Part 7 – a glimpse at the future?)

What does the future hold for corporate evangelicalism?

November 2016

November 30, 2016

Bringing the Spirit of (Medieval) Santa Back to Christmas

Every Christmas in the yard of a house not far from us stands a manger...

November 29, 2016

Happy New Year!

While 2016 has one more month, the Christian calendar has already entered its new year.

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