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December 2015

December 11, 2015

The Year Jesus Was Born

Scholars differ on the exact birthdate of Jesus of Nazareth, though a fair consensus holds...

December 10, 2015

Muslims, the New Mormons

In 1890, the U.S. Supreme Court -- in upheld laws intended to disenfranchise Mormon polygamists....

December 09, 2015

Raising Victorian Children in China

If you can’t tell already by my many posts (here, here, and here), I’ve been...

December 08, 2015

Ben Franklin, Anti-Catholicism, and the Founding of the University of Pennsylvania

Historians have generally cast the founding of the University of Pennsylvania (or the College of...

December 07, 2015

Religious Conviction and “Altruistic Evil”

The murders in Beirut, Paris, and San Bernardino raise many questions, but few are as...

December 04, 2015

Four Good Questions

Through the years, I have often taught courses on Christian history, covering various periods. Whenever...

December 03, 2015

Woodrow Wilson, Race, and the Depravity of Human Nature

Today's guest post comes from Dr. Barry Hankins, professor of history at Baylor University. His religious...

December 01, 2015

Donald Trump and Monitoring Muslims

UPDATE: The topic of this post has taken on added urgency in light of the...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

The Bible’s Voice

Does the Bible speak? If so, how? An oft-told tale of the Spanish conquest of...

November 27, 2015

Mani and the Giants

Last time, I described the Book of the Giants. Probably written in the third or...

November 25, 2015

The Thanksgiving before the First Thanksgiving

The Mayflower pilgrims anchored at what is now Provincetown Harbor on the south side of...

November 25, 2015

Eating Eel: Your Guide to an Authentic Thanksgiving

Turkey might be traditional fare at Thanksgiving, but it’s probably not historical.

November 24, 2015

This Thanksgiving, Stop Idolizing the Pilgrims

A couple of years ago at Christianity Today, I reviewed Robert Tracy McKenzie’s excellent book The First Thanksgiving. Here’s...

November 23, 2015

You are not still working on that

Though Thanksgiving is rooted in real historical events, intentional misremembering of those events is a...

November 20, 2015

The Book of the Giants

No, whatever the title suggests, that is not the name of a forthcoming novel from...

November 18, 2015

Thinking Medieval about “Masculine” Christianity

“God has given Christianity a masculine feel.” I remember when John Piper said this at...

November 17, 2015

Islam: Inherently Violent?

The jihadist attacks in Paris have grieved and frightened the world again with the reality...

November 16, 2015

Over the Border

For some centuries, Jews of the Second Temple era lived in a world that was...

November 15, 2015

Permanent Jihad, Continued

I dearly wish I had not been right. Back in early September, I did a...

November 13, 2015

Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing and the Jewish War

Palestine in Jesus’s time was a much more complex and diverse place than we might...

November 12, 2015

Surprised by Joy

Joy Davidman Gresham is best known for the very end of her life. As depicted...

November 11, 2015

Was Missionary Work Liberating for Women?

It depended. “Multiple freedoms and multiple opportunities reinforced each other,” writes historian Jane Smith in...

November 10, 2015

The Origin of “In God We Trust”

The national motto "In God We Trust" has a complicated and contested history. Even though...

November 09, 2015

India Today and Hindu Nationalism

After traveling in the United States, G. K. Chesterton famously described America as “a nation...

November 06, 2015

Peoples Beyond Palestine

I have been posting about the shifting boundaries of the Jewish world during the Second...

November 04, 2015

Religion, Secularization, and the Academy

On my campus, there are plenty of signs that religion is not going quietly into...

November 04, 2015

Because a Conference Paper is Usually Just a Conference Paper

I originally published this post last year when I was just a guest blogger. As...

November 03, 2015

The Most Evangelical Founding Father?

In spite of some Christian revisionist attempts to cast them all as evangelical believers, the...

November 02, 2015

The Limits of Judea

I posted about the shifting frontiers and definitions of the ancient lands described in the...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

Halloween–More Christian than Pagan…

I carved pumpkins with my kids this week. My son is finally old enough to...

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