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September 2016

September 13, 2016

Beyond Books: Hymns as Christian Writing

Do we overstate the influence of books and underestimate the importance of other types of...

September 12, 2016

Only Yesterday: On Teaching Very Recent US History

I wrote recently about the problems of defining the major themes in recent American history....

September 11, 2016

The Best 100 Films, and the Rest

I recently blogged about recent European films about faith and religion. That post was in...

September 09, 2016

Writing the 21st Century

Last time, I discussed the issues involved in trying to write the very recent history,...

September 08, 2016

Crisis of Corporate Evangelicalism (Part 4 – The “Other” Evangelicals)

In July 1925, America was gripped by a spectacle of the sort that reality TV...

September 07, 2016

The Divorce of a Pastor’s Wife in 1860 Texas

I went to a perfect wedding last weekend. It was deep in the rural heart...

September 06, 2016

The Anxious Bench Takes Over Social Media!

How you can now follow us on Twitter and Facebook...

September 05, 2016

Birth Advice from Leo Tolstoy

Popular notions about baby-making, religious or not, often have been peculiar. The soon-to-be-in-theaters Warner Brothers’...

September 03, 2016

Football at Christian Colleges and Universities

While schools as large as Baylor and as small as Bethel have long played football,...

September 02, 2016

American History: Writing the Present?

Now here is an interesting challenge. If you were writing a history of the United...

September 01, 2016

Mormons Will Vote Trump

The 2016 will go down in the annals of American political history as highly unusual....

August 2016

August 31, 2016

The Space Between and the Migration of Identity

Today's guest post comes from Jenny McGill. She is the author of Religious Identity and...

August 30, 2016

Incarnate, Crucified, Resurrected: What It Means to Be the Body of Christ

What the Body of Christ has in common with the historical body of Jesus —...

August 29, 2016

The Place Called Dagon

I have been posting abut the modern mythology that tried to understand witchcraft as an...

August 26, 2016

European Films on Faith

My colleague Chris Gehrz recently did a valuable blogpost on films that treat religious topics...

August 25, 2016

History, Empathy, and Race in America

In the white paper “Measuring College Learning in History” (a surprisingly good read as far...

August 24, 2016

Of Pastors and Power: Mark Driscoll and the Avignon Papacy

I made the mistake recently of reading Mark Driscoll's 2008 Crossway book On Church Leadership....

August 23, 2016

#fav7films on Faith

Our social media followers helped compile a list of seven favorite films about faith, religion,...

August 22, 2016

“History is Hot”

Many historians have been given prominent public platforms of late. Is history "hot" right now?...

August 22, 2016

Up on the Downs

I have been posting about the creation of modern myths about paganism, human sacrifice and...

August 19, 2016

Britain’s Pagan Twilight

I have been writing about the long-standing British fascination with the idea of a continuing...

August 18, 2016

How a Dissertation Becomes a Book

The first book of most academic historians is a strange creature: a dissertation that has...

August 17, 2016

Notes to First-Year Students on Mystery and the Liberal Arts

Today's post comes from a talk I gave several years ago at Asbury University, where...

August 16, 2016

Could the U.S. Finally Get a Significant Christian Democratic Party?

Is American politics finally ready for a Christian democratic party like those that have long...

August 15, 2016

Trump and Modern Ethical Theory

We are still many weeks away from early November and I’m already wondering if there...

August 12, 2016

Wood Magic

I have been posting about pagan survivals into Christian times, not in terms of actual...

August 11, 2016

The Crisis of Corporate Evangelicalism (Part 3 – where did it come from?)

[You can also read previous posts in the series] Imagine a world where families operate like corporations....

August 10, 2016

Etiquette for Graduate Students

Next week I will meet with our new Baylor History graduate students for orientation. I...

August 09, 2016

St. Ephrem, the Syrian Refugee: A Church Father on War and Lament

One of the greatest writers of the Early Church, Ephrem the Syrian was a refugee...

August 08, 2016

Witches in the Village

In 1945, English villager Charles Walton was gruesomely murdered in what sensationalist media decided was...

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