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October 2015

October 30, 2015

Palestine, Judea, and the Wider World

I have been working on the Second Temple era of Jewish history, of what is...

October 29, 2015

Trump, Presbyterians, and Adventists

A few days ago, Donald Trump thought it wise to remind Republican primary voters that...

October 28, 2015

Upsetting Gender Roles in Turn-of-the-Century China

Moving to China often upset the sharply separated gender spheres of Victorian America. Given the...

October 27, 2015

Choosing a Book or Dissertation Topic

John Turner recently had a fabulous post on "Publishing without Perishing" which is full of...

October 26, 2015

The Problem of Inequality–for Puritans

It’s that time of year when New England muscles into the spotlight, showing off Patriots...

October 25, 2015

Long Ago, In A Castle Far Far Away

This column has nothing to do with religious or even academic concerns (well, not much)....

October 23, 2015

Other Reformations

We usually refer to “the Reformation” as if the European movement of the sixteenth century...

October 22, 2015

For Evangelicals, Party Trumps Personalities

My co-blogger Thomas Kidd suggests that church-going evangelicals and a group he calls "paleo-evangelicals" (already...

October 21, 2015

How to Start a Writing Group

My writing group just celebrated our 5th anniversary. Although our idea for the group was...

October 20, 2015

Donald Trump and the Coming Christian Political Realignment

As Donald Trump has maintained strong leads in primary states like South Carolina, some observers...

October 19, 2015

Reformations Then and Now

I described the religious revolution that overcame the Jewish world in the seventh century BC,...

October 18, 2015

The Many Faces of Christ

My new book is just published! This is The Many Faces of Christ: The Thousand...

October 16, 2015

Reformations, Plural

Over the next couple of years, we are going to be hearing a great deal...

October 14, 2015

Station Eleven

Last year, John Wilson of Books & Culture praised Emily St. John Mandel's post-apocalyptic novel...

October 14, 2015

From “Mannish Woman” to Missionary

Sarah Goodrich, a missionary to China, begged her family and friends back at home in...

October 13, 2015

How and When to Say ‘No’

In my weekly newsletter I have written about alleviating stress and explained why saying 'no'...

October 12, 2015

Heads up on key new books in American and global religious history

Over at the Christian Century, Philip Jenkins and Grant Wacker offer suggestions for some key...

October 09, 2015

Noah’s Magic

I have been writing about the semi-lost Book of Noah, parts of which survive in...

October 08, 2015

Playing Mormon, Playing Indian

In 1869, Lucy Stanton Bassett traveled from New York to Utah, possibly riding on the...

October 07, 2015

The Measure of a Woman: Donald Trump and St. Margaret’s Dragon

“Women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr. Trump said.” So Republican Presidential...

October 06, 2015

Searching for the Political Messiah

Some signs would suggest that we're finally seeing the decline of the Donald Trump candidacy

October 05, 2015

Reading Noah

In my last post, I discussed the Book of Noah, a semi-lost text that presently...

October 03, 2015

Welcome to New Blogger Dr. Beth Allison Barr!

Beginning this week my Baylor colleague Dr. Beth Allison Barr will be joining the roster...

October 02, 2015

Noah’s Book

At my church not long ago, the Sunday reading was from 2 Samuel, giving David’s...

October 01, 2015

Adam, Billy Graham, and Biblical Authority

Last week, I excerpted some highlights from a recent intra-evangelical debate about Adam's historicity in...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

“You Know Where Else They Have May-Day Military Exhibitions?”

Wes Craven wasn’t the only rebel at Wheaton. Many students in the 1960s and 1970s...

September 29, 2015

Jonathan Edwards and the Sanctified Emotions

A recent e-mail conversation with Lauren Winner raised an important question - in the view of...

September 28, 2015

Pope Francis and Our America

At the end of the first visit of Pope Francis to the United States, we...

September 25, 2015

Zechariah’s Angels

The Old Testament book of Zechariah challenges a lot of conventional assumptions about the development...

September 23, 2015

The Historical Adam

Books & Culture recently hosted a symposium on the "historical [or not] Adam," organized by...

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