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November 2016

November 28, 2016

Religions Dead and Living

In recent columns, I looked at what happened to a religion heavily focused on hierarchy...

November 27, 2016

The Passion of Martin Scorsese

After literally decades of planning and delay, Martin Scorsese has finally released his film of...

November 25, 2016

Where Did All The Pagans Go?

I have been posting about a source on religion in Wales around 1715 , which...

November 24, 2016

Augustine and Thanksgiving

In Augustine's Confessions, at the end of a discussion of infancy and childhood, there is...

November 23, 2016

Trumpocalypse

Around eighteen years ago, my wife and I drove out into the countryside beyond Louisville...

November 22, 2016

Lincoln’s Thanksgiving: A Call to Gratitude, Humility, and Empathy

In the wake of a divisive election, we should revisit Abraham Lincoln's original 1863 proclamation...

November 21, 2016

Education: What is It?

For a "think tank" of sorts, I find myself writing a white paper on education...

November 18, 2016

Singing the Faith

Western Protestants are familiar with the idea of Christianity as a faith of the book,...

November 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s Spiritual Stamina

As the reality of Hillary Clinton’s unexpected defeat sinks in, as pundits jockey to offer...

November 16, 2016

When Churches Fail

In Eastcheap, near Fenchurch St. in London, stands the medieval church of St. Margaret Pattens....

November 15, 2016

The Problems of Writing Biography (Part 1 – Empathy and Exoneration)

While some of my colleagues here have written excellent examples of the genre, I've never...

November 14, 2016

The Ghosts of Religion Past

When religious systems die or collapse, how do their followers carry on? Historically, such a...

November 11, 2016

Richard Davies and the Word of God

I posted about the autobiography of Quaker pioneer Richard Davies, arguing that this should be...

November 10, 2016

Unexpected Sites of Christian Pacifism: Hacksaw Ridge and Adventism

The new Mel Gibson movie Hacksaw Ridge tells the story of a WWII medic named...

November 09, 2016

I Thought Hillbilly Elegy Was Just about Kentucky

My university—located on a relatively conservative campus in the very red state of Kentucky—was subdued...

November 08, 2016

Election Day Reading Material from The Anxious Bench

Whether you want to read more about the 2016 election - or find something to...

November 08, 2016

Decision Day: An Open Letter on Faith, Hope, Love, and the 2016 Election

While I normally enjoy my Tuesday spot in the Anxious Bench rotation, it did leave...

November 07, 2016

Art and the Work of the People

This moment might seem an uncanny one for finding beauty and common purpose, but John E. Skillen...

November 04, 2016

The Convincement of Richard Davies

I want to recommend a book that is a major source on Christian history. It...

November 03, 2016

The Crisis of Corporate Evangelicalism (Part 6 – Constructing Modern Evangelicalism)

Evangelicalism's political past and its future after Trump.

November 02, 2016

For Graduate Students Wanting Excellent Job Recommendations (and because I am trying to not think about the election…)

I submitted eight letters of recommendation this morning. I submitted three over the weekend, and...

November 01, 2016

All Saints’ Day and the Stewardship of the Past

If time is a dimension of Creation, then what would it look like for Christians...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

The Reformation, in Verse

In 2017, we are going to be hearing a great deal about the 500th anniversary...

October 28, 2016

The Nightmare Before Halloween

I love Halloween, and I love horror fiction. One of the most powerful and evocative...

October 27, 2016

Alienated and Ambivalent Evangelical Scholars

Along with several of my co-bloggers, last week I was at the Conference on Faith...

October 26, 2016

Homeless: The Evangelical Left in 2016

2016 would appear to be the perfect moment to launch a revitalized evangelical left. Donald...

October 25, 2016

Reformed and Always Reforming… Even 499 Years Later

Next week we'll mark the 499th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his 95 Theses, taking us...

October 24, 2016

Of Wells, Springs, and Samaritans

This continues some posts I have been doing concerning John's Gospel. The Bible contains several...

October 23, 2016

Highlights from the 2016 Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History

Race, gender, identity... and Donald Trump. Revisiting the 2016 meeting of the Conference on Faith...

October 21, 2016

Lazarus and James

I have been posting on the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man, as told...

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