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September 2015

September 23, 2015

Outsourcing Death and Dying in America

This marks my last regularly-scheduled post for the Anxious Bench as the demands of my...

September 22, 2015

Should We Elect a Muslim President?

Ben Carson stirred up the latest Republican primary tempest this weekend when he volunteered the...

September 21, 2015

Zechariah and Revelation

I have been writing about the Old Testament book of Zechariah and where it stands...

September 18, 2015

Zechariah’s Apocalypse

I have posted a few times on the Old Testament Book of Zechariah, and especially...

September 17, 2015

Liberty and Civility

Earlier this week, Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke to 12,000 students...

September 16, 2015

Nightmare at Wheaton: Wes Craven Encounters the Fundamentalist Harvard

Imagine Wes Craven, the Hollywood provocateur who died last week, as a student at Wheaton...

September 15, 2015

Why Are Academic Books So Expensive?

[Today's post is taken from one of my author newsletters. It is a question that...

September 14, 2015

The Popes and America

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Pope in...

September 13, 2015

Flying Pigs and Abominable Beasts

Over the past few months, I have done quite a few posts on pseudo-history and...

September 11, 2015

Prophecy Without End?

When drawing the canonical limits of the Bible, Jewish sages strictly declared that the prophetic...

September 09, 2015

Five Thoughts on Evangelical History

Nathan Finn (an occasional Anxious Bench guest blogger) recently published a review essay in Themelios...

September 09, 2015

The Biblical Case for Organized Labor

Today's guest post is from Heath W. Carter. He is an assistant professor of history...

September 08, 2015

The Ex-Baptist Pastor Who Popularized Ben Franklin’s Electrical Experiments

James Delbourgo's A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America offers a remarkable...

September 07, 2015

Wisdom and Apocalyptic

I posted about the rise of apocalyptic literature, and the theory that it evolved from...

September 06, 2015

The Age of Permanent Jihad?

British media recently presented two unrelated columns that, each in its own way, raised alarming...

September 04, 2015

The End of Prophecy

If you open the Old Testament at random, the chances are that you will find...

September 03, 2015

Race and American Christianity

Jesus and I were the only white people in the room. After my freshman year...

September 02, 2015

The American Exceptionalisms of Foner and the Cheneys

I'm pleased to present a guest post by John Wilsey, an assistant professor of history...

September 01, 2015

How to Write an Excellent Statement of Purpose for Graduate Applications

Fall is the time for students to put together their applications for graduate school. Many...

August 2015

August 31, 2015

Rome, for Protestants

Most people today ooh-and-aah when they experience or envision a trip to Rome. It was...

August 28, 2015

Peopling the Biblical World

The Biblical world at various eras is probably the most intensely studied society in human...

August 26, 2015

Good advice for those who are ABD

From The Anxious Bench Archive. Originally posted October 8, 2014. "It's the good advice that...

August 25, 2015

Graduate Course Readings in Early American Religion

I'm gearing up for the start of classes, so here's another edition of my readings...

August 24, 2015

Sporadic Charismatic

Quite by accident, I have stumbled across an excellent tool for scholarly analysis. My source...

August 21, 2015

Multiple Messiahs

“Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?” (Luke 7.20)....

August 20, 2015

Publishing without Perishing

Several of my co-bloggers have commented on aspects of dissertation writing and academic publishing. Perhaps...

August 19, 2015

“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” as Secular Hymnody

In 1345, on a cold Tuesday night just before Easter, a miracle happened in Amsterdam....

August 18, 2015

The “Evangelicals” Who Support Donald Trump

There has been much hand-wringing in recent weeks about the persistent support of Donald Trump...

August 17, 2015

This is not about abortion

In case you were unaware of your need for a book titled A History of...

August 14, 2015

The Other Tyre

I say this with some nervousness, but I think I have a minor discovery to...

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