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May 2016

May 25, 2016

How Evangelicals Turned from a Born-Again Christian to a Divorced Hollywood Actor

Many evangelicals became deeply disillusioned with Carter's presidency. The sharp decline in ticket-splitting from 1976...

May 24, 2016

Martin Luther King and the History of Religious Extremism

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" would make it on my list of...

May 20, 2016

New Thought

In my last column, I mentioned the New Thought movement of the early twentieth century,...

May 18, 2016

Banning the Bible: Did It Really Happen in the Medieval World?

Yes, it did. But not the way you were taught in Sunday School. Let me...

May 17, 2016

Reassessing the Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party of 1773 was the most provocative Patriot action before the start...

May 16, 2016

Calvin, Calvinism, and the Institutes

"The whole of sacred doctrine consists of two parts," wrote John Calvin at the outset...

May 16, 2016

Which Spiritual Unrest?

I wrote last time about the failings of prophecy in predicting religious futures. Here is...

May 13, 2016

Histories of the Future

Has anyone ever collected predictions of the future of religion, whether in a book or...

May 12, 2016

The Rise of “Abrahamic Religions”

Most semesters, I teach a course my university titled "Religions of the West." Given my...

May 11, 2016

The Limits of Evangelical Identity Politics

Jimmy Carter’s born-again credentials drew many evangelicals to the polls in 1976. Evangelicals who had...

May 10, 2016

Edmund Burke, Trumpism, and the Worst of Both Worlds

I recently read Yuval Levin's engaging The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the...

May 09, 2016

For This I Went To College!

Commencement-address season is upon us, bringing glad tidings about the power of grads—especially young women--to...

May 06, 2016

The Last Crusade?

Whatever happened to America's crusades? Once upon a time, crusades were an integral part of...

May 05, 2016

The Puritan Way of Seeing Christ

Several years ago, my co-blogger Philip Jenkins penned a thoughtful post on Protestant iconoclasm, its...

May 04, 2016

The English Bible before the Reformation

If you are ever in the neighborhood on Lower Thames Street, I urge you to...

May 03, 2016

The Stunning Statistics of the Slave Trade

One of the most surprising revelations to me during my research for my new book...

May 02, 2016

Healing Prayer

We hear a lot these days about the growth of the “Nones,” people who refuse...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

The Christ-Myth and the Napoleon-Myth

I recently blogged about The Myth of the Mythical Jesus. Among other things, I argued...

April 28, 2016

Guns at Church

Sunday was a dangerous time. When people left their homes and went to church, it...

April 27, 2016

J.C. Can Save America

Ted Cruz marshals a rhetoric of Christian America in his campaign for president. Christians should...

April 26, 2016

Was Jonathan Edwards Wrong About Interpreting God’s Providence?

This post is gratefully re-shared from Reformation 21, where it originally ran. Like many eighteenth-century...

April 22, 2016

Slings, Arrows and Shakespeare

As you will assuredly have noticed by now, this year marks the 400th anniversary of...

April 21, 2016

What’s in a Name?

While he tends his father-in-law's sheep, as recorded in the Book of Exodus, Moses sees...

April 19, 2016

The GOP Race: Is Ted Cruz Our Best Option?

When we were in St. Andrews, Scotland for the Spring 2015 semester, I remember our...

April 18, 2016

The Myth of the Mythical Jesus

In debates about Christian origins, one tiresome canard is going to come up sporadically, and...

April 15, 2016

The Martyresses

I have often blogged about paintings or illustrations, which are excellent ways of illuminating historical...

April 14, 2016

When the Mormon Jesus Was Married

It is a staple of anti-Mormon literature (and evangelical countercult literature more generally) that the...

April 13, 2016

The Evangelical Onion

If you haven’t run across the Babylon Bee yet, check it out. It’s the evangelical...

April 12, 2016

Culture-Changing Christians

Back in 2012, when Mitt Romney lost the presidential election, many disappointed supporters – including...

April 11, 2016

A Trade Good for Body and Soul: School and Career Choice for New England Puritans

These are days of decision. This span of weeks in April and May can be...

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