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October 2016

October 20, 2016

Latter-day Saints and the Anointing of Jesus

My co-blogger Philip Jenkins is in the midst of a fascinating series of posts (most...

October 19, 2016

Halloween: More Christian than Pagan

This is from my archives at the Anxious Bench, originally published Oct 31, 2015. Although...

October 18, 2016

The Bonhoeffer Effect, “Unpleasant Parallels,” and the 2016 Election

Christians on both sides of the 2016 election invoke the heroic example of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,...

October 17, 2016

“Bulgarian Horrors”

In the long history of conflict between “Islam and Christendom,” there have been many flashpoints....

October 14, 2016

L is for Lazarus

John’s Gospel tells the unforgettable story of a family who lived at Bethany: Jesus raised...

October 13, 2016

Perishing While Flourishing

A few years ago, I went through the painful process of winnowing down the stacks...

October 12, 2016

The Culture Wars and Evangelical “Evangelism”

Christians, who are people of the Book, follow political scripts as well as biblical scripts....

October 11, 2016

Saying Farewell to Books and Culture

Forgive a second post from me in the same morning, but I'm reeling from some...

October 11, 2016

A Dispatch from Trump Country: The Past and Politics

For my fall sabbatical, my family has been blessed with the opportunity to spend four...

October 10, 2016

The Problem with Protecting our Wives and Daughters

Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad many evangelicals are lining up to condemn Trump’s vulgar...

October 10, 2016

Jesus’s Anointings

Last time I posted about the New Testament passages describing the anointing of Jesus. Here,...

October 07, 2016

The Perfumed Gospel

Whatever its undoubted spiritual power, the Gospel of John is one of the most intriguing...

October 06, 2016

The Crisis of Corporate Evangelicalism (Part 5 – Born Again)

How corporate evangelicals remade themselves in the Great Depression and after.

October 05, 2016

The Modern Roots of Pagan Halloween

I remember trick-or-treating when I was small. The night air was crisp and cool (we...

October 04, 2016

6 Things I’ve Learned about Teaching History to 6-Year Olds

A rare Anxious Bench parenting post: six things that Prof. Gehrz has learned about teaching...

October 03, 2016

Pantsuits and Politics

At one point in the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Trump was...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

The Religious Revolution of the 1970s: The Case of Iran

I have been doing a series of posts about the global revival of religious politics...

September 29, 2016

God and the 2016 Presidential Debates

Four years ago, I wrote a post on "God and the Presidential Debates" after the...

September 28, 2016

Hey White Evangelicals, Welcome to Anabaptism

After centuries of relying on sky-high Amish birthrates for church growth, Anabaptism has exploded in...

September 27, 2016

Beyond Books: The “Head of Christ”

The history of the most iconic image of Jesus in American culture — and why it...

September 26, 2016

The Religious Revolution of the 1970s: The Case of Israel

I have been posting about the aggressive revival of religious politics during the mid-1970s, and...

September 23, 2016

The 1970s and the Revenge of God

In my last blogpost, I discussed the political and cultural transformations of the 1970s, a...

September 22, 2016

An Open Letter to the ESV Translation Committee

I’m not a biblical translator, or even a biblical scholar. I’m a historian. As a...

September 21, 2016

Burning Witches in Medieval Europe?

Kilkenny lies deep in southern Ireland. Its history lies just as deep in the medieval...

September 20, 2016

Beyond Books: “Come, Lord Jesus, Be Our Guest”

Chris Gehrz continues his series on types of Christian writing other than books by reflecting...

September 19, 2016

Counting Down to the Reformation at 500

There’s an African proverb, I am told, that goes like this: “If I don’t beat...

September 17, 2016

The Anxious Bench at the Conference on Faith and History

Where you can hear Anxious Bench contributors at next month's 30th biennial meeting of the...

September 16, 2016

When The Backwardness Came Back

In a recent post, I referred to economic pressures, and particularly oil prices, as a...

September 15, 2016

Black Church, White Jesus

Jesus and I were the only white people in the room. When I was twenty...

September 14, 2016

Mother Teresa, Eastern Kentucky, and Transnational Charity

The canonization of Mother Teresa on September 4 was a global affair. The coronation occurred...

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