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July 2016

July 03, 2016

God, Gotham, and Jon Butler

I have just read an admirably concise essay that is one of the smartest and...

July 01, 2016

Two Sides of One Coin? (Buddhist and Christian Decline, Part II)

Last time, I stated a problem. In the early centuries of the Christian era, Buddhism...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

History, Memory, and Relevance: Reflections on Christian Feminism Today

Last week I attended the biennial Christian Feminism Today conference, an organization better known among...

June 29, 2016

Gender and the Trinity: A Medieval Perspective

Very recently, on June 16, Christianity Today published the article Gender and the Trinity: From Proxy...

June 28, 2016

What It Means to Say “I’m a Pietist” in 2016

What it means to be a Pietist today — and why that ethos might help...

June 27, 2016

Two Sides of One Coin? Mapping Buddhist and Christian Decline

Although it’s a world religion, in a sense it is multiply cut off from its...

June 24, 2016

This Orient Isle

Back in February, I posted about the tight alliance that bound (Protestant) Elizabethan England with...

June 23, 2016

ratemydeity.com

Review sites protect us from the hotel that serves rubbery scrambled eggs as its "free...

June 22, 2016

Moving Beyond “When Helping Hurts”

This guest post comes from Steve Offutt, a professor of development studies at Asbury Theological...

June 21, 2016

Religious Freedom: The Contested Core of Baptist Identity

Like mosques today, school prayer once caused Baptists to debate religious freedom

June 20, 2016

Summer Reading List of American Protestant History

Interested in the history of American Protestantism? A few summer reading suggestions...

June 17, 2016

More on Publishing and Presses

I recently posted about the prestige of different publishers, and the vast difference that makes...

June 16, 2016

The Crisis of Corporate Evangelicalism (Part 1)

Part 1: who are the “corporate evangelicals?”   These have been banner days for those...

June 15, 2016

Surviving Rejection on the Academic Job Market

I still remember checking my watch and thinking vaguely about what I would eat for...

June 14, 2016

How Can Christians Love Their LGBT Neighbors? Start by Learning Their History

How studying LGBT history is a way of loving our neighbors in the wake of...

June 14, 2016

British Christians Debate “Brexit”

In nine days British voters will determine if their country remains a member of the European Union, as...

June 13, 2016

The Hierarchy of Presses

A learned friend once made an excellent point, which sounds like a joke but is...

June 10, 2016

The Byzantine Dark Ages

In my last post, I urged the use of the unpopular term “Dark Age” as...

June 09, 2016

The Future of American Evangelicalism

Nearly twenty years ago, Christian Smith assessed American evangelicalism as "embattled but thriving." Nowadays, just...

June 08, 2016

The Limits of a Narrow Evangelical Advocacy

Today's guest post comes from David Bronkema, Associate Professor of International Development at Eastern University...

June 07, 2016

Changes at the Bench

The Anxious Bench began its life as a blog some four years ago. Since then, we've published...

June 06, 2016

“What Men Foolishly Bring on Themselves”: Why You Should Vote for Someone Good

Samuel Willard (1640-1707), minister at Boston’s Third Church—“Old South”--offered a heady dose of Puritan political...

June 03, 2016

Bringing Back the Dark Ages

I am about to say something really contentious and controversial: Dark Ages happen, and I...

June 02, 2016

A Punch in the Gut

Rupert Neudeck died earlier this week at the age of seventy-seven. Mostly unknown in the...

June 01, 2016

Silenced Women–Modern Lessons from an Ancient Murder

In the second century A.D., the pregnant wife of a prosperous Greek politician died from...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

“Ask Jesus into Your Heart”: A History of the Sinner’s Prayer

[This week’s post comes from my Patheos archives.] Many an evangelical pastor has concluded a...

May 30, 2016

The Enoch Seminar

One of the most exciting areas today in Biblical scholarship (broadly defined) is the Enoch...

May 29, 2016

Why THE WITCH is One of the Greatest Historical Films Ever Made

I am several months late on this topic, but bear with me. Robert Eggers’s film...

May 27, 2016

Which Old Testament?

I am presently writing something that draws heavily on the Old Testament sources. I am...

May 26, 2016

Earthly Passions and Celestial Parts

"How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?" In his...

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