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April 2025

April 18, 2025

We Keep Choosing Barabbas

Choosing Barabbas I’ve been intermittently listening to Bach’s Matthäuspassion performed by the Tölz Boys’ Choir...

April 17, 2025

Africa’s Catholics in a Global Church

Last time I wrote about the amazing growth of Catholic populations in Africa, to the...

April 16, 2025

Twelve Years, Hundreds of Posts, and One Grateful Exit

After a dozen years, I bid farewell to the Anxious Bench.

April 15, 2025

On the Forgotten Nicene: Eustathius of Antioch

What is Nicaea about? Most modern accounts will focus on the theological debate between Arius...

April 11, 2025

40 Days in God’s Dojo with a Nagasaki survivor

Yesterday morning, I received a startling email from my sons’ Little League head coach: one...

April 10, 2025

The Triumph of Catholic Africa

We are shortly to encounter a major landmark in the history of Christianity, and indeed...

April 09, 2025

Joan Baez’s “Deportee”: A History of the Song

The song "Deportee" came on my radar researching folk singer Joan Baez's support of Cesar...

April 07, 2025

Religion or Ethnicity 3 – Untangling Critical Race Theory

In my February I talked about Untangling Critical Race Theory: What Christians Need to Know...

April 04, 2025

Lent and Why We Still Meet God in the Wilderness

It’s Lent: Let’s Go to the Wilderness Budget cuts in the US government have resulted...

April 03, 2025

Three Temptations, and Three Triumphs

Today’s blog is a slightly expanded reprint of a post I did at this site...

April 01, 2025

Is Christian Education Meant to Protect or Expand?

In Support of Expansive Education I saw a debate play out in the comments of...

March 2025

March 27, 2025

Popes, Prophecies, and the Apocalypse

We are running out of prophecies. Let me explain. I have been writing about what...

March 26, 2025

Retethering Ourselves: A Review of Priests of History

You know you are reading a good book when you wish you had read it...

March 25, 2025

President Garfield: A Moral Reassessment

Reflections on C. W. Goodyear's President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier (Simon and Schuster, 2023) Of...

March 21, 2025

Evangelicals, Charismatics, and Reformation Roleplay, Part 2

In my last post, I charted the acceptance and gradual ostracizing of Pentecostals and charismatics...

March 20, 2025

Who Will Be The Next Pope?

Before too long, we are very likely to be dealing with the choice of a...

March 19, 2025

How More Religion Could Help Us Sleep Better

Until a century and a half or so ago, our premodern forbears didn’t sleep in...

March 18, 2025

Mothers of the (Nicene) Church: Helena Augusta

As I stared at the fragments of the cross of Christ on display in the...

March 14, 2025

Heaven on Earth? Nahua-Christian Ritual in Colonial Mexico

This Spring, I’m teaching a special topics course, “Christianizing Native Peoples,” which explores the Franciscan-indigenous...

March 13, 2025

After Francis: What’s Next in the Vatican?

In the quite near future, the world’s largest religious institution will be choosing a new...

March 12, 2025

But for Fortune: Joan Baez and Latin America

Joan Baez is back in the news because of the recent film A Complete Unknown...

March 10, 2025

Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History

I am very pleased to announce on this post that my new book Broken Altars:...

March 07, 2025

Who’s Watching the Kids? Justice, Morality and Childcare

Recently I was in charge of an event—inviting people to come, making sure the...

March 06, 2025

Donald Trump, Canada, and the Deep Roots of American Empire

You can think many things about the Trump presidency, but few devote much attention to...

March 04, 2025

Christianity, White Supremacy & the Rise of American Nazism

Old/New Nazism in America Like many of you, I have observed in horror the uptick...

March 03, 2025

Systems and Shields: A Women’s History Month Reflection

It’s March, which means it’s Women’s History Month– and while in past years at the...

February 2025

February 27, 2025

Using Tin Pan Alley Songs to Understand American Empire

This post concerns using a kind of historical evidence that I don’t normally deal with,...

February 26, 2025

Reckoning & Healing: Recovering from Purity Culture Review

“I want an honest recollection of what has been done. I want a reckoning with...

February 25, 2025

The Evangelical Assault on Democratic Institutions

As I have watched the rapid destruction of constitutional checks and balances and liberal democratic...

February 20, 2025

CAPTAIN JINKS, CATCH-22, and the Radical Tradition

I have been discussing Ernest Crosby’s novel Captain Jinks, Hero (1902), which I would claim...

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