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August 2015

August 12, 2015

Seer Stones and Prophetic Authority

Last week, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made national and international news...

August 11, 2015

Teaching Salem Witchcraft

One of the most provocative topics in the American History survey class is the Salem...

August 10, 2015

The Missing Century, Revisited

My last post was a near-despairing attempt to locate a spiritual and/or political crisis that...

August 07, 2015

Placing Zechariah

I was posting about some of the weird and wonderful ideas offered by Robert Graves...

August 06, 2015

Performing the City

And now, for something (not) completely different. In recent months, I have been working on...

August 05, 2015

A Report from Mennonite World Conference 2015

Mennonite World Conference doesn’t happen every day. In fact, it’s held only once every six...

August 04, 2015

How Far Mike Huckabee Has Fallen

Over at the Washington Post's Acts of Faith blog, I have a piece on the strange decline...

August 03, 2015

Snake Handling and Religious Freedom

Snake handling churches are back in the news after a Kentucky man died from a...

August 01, 2015

Bill Hamblin: End of Debate?

Bill Hamblin is presently not saying much in our continuing debate. Frankly, I am pretty...

July 2015

July 31, 2015

The Persian Package

I have posted frequently about the major change that occurs within Judaism in the two...

July 30, 2015

The Ransom of the Soul

What causes changes in the way Christians understand God, salvation, or the afterlife? Peter Brown...

July 29, 2015

Why I am (Still) An Evangelical

Here I offer my contribution to the Evangelical Channel's Theme: Why I am (Still) Evangelical....

July 28, 2015

Reports of Evangelicalism’s Demise Are Overblown

This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on the Future of Faith in America: Evangelicalism....

July 27, 2015

Warlords and Holy Men

I steal my title from a classic book on early Scottish history by Alfred P....

July 26, 2015

Debating Ancient Book of Mormon Fantasies

I have been engaged in exchanges with Bill Hamblin at his blog, on the subject...

July 24, 2015

Jesus, Ebionites and Jewish-Christians

Reading Robert Graves’s 1946 novel King Jesus is like undertaking an archaeological dig into intellectual...

July 23, 2015

The Disappearance of Heaven

When I was in college, both my InterVarsity chapter and my local Baptist church (for...

July 22, 2015

Repressed Mennonites in Little Black Dresses

The image of Mennonites in popular culture is typically flattering. They are often seen as...

July 21, 2015

Professors and the New Public Sphere

I have been reading Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. This...

July 20, 2015

How we view the fetus

Recent release of video footage showing Planned Parenthood official Deborah Nucatola describing collection and costs...

July 18, 2015

Of Bill Hamblin, History and the Book of Mormon

I have been engaged in a debate of sorts with Bill Hamblin on the historicity...

July 17, 2015

Jesus the Essene

I have been posting about Robert Graves’s 1946 novel King Jesus, which presented a wealth...

July 16, 2015

Under God — since When?

Kevin Kruse's One Nation Under God: How Corporate American Invented Christian America has received considerable...

July 15, 2015

The Problem of Personality-Driven Congregationalism in American Evangelicalism

As the American colonies congealed into a new nation, the founders undertook a "lively experiment."*...

July 14, 2015

What Are The Most “Important” Topics in American History?

I recently spoke at the annual conference of the Association of Classical and Christian Schools,...

July 13, 2015

King Jesus

A classic book can change your life. Oddly, on occasion, a much lesser and truly...

July 12, 2015

Apples, Oranges and Nephites

Neil Rappleye is a Book of Mormon apologist. He recently did a piece about me...

July 10, 2015

Scripture and Sedition

The Hasmonean rulers of the independent Jewish kingdom (165 BC – 63 BC) were the...

July 09, 2015

Early Christian and Medieval Heavens

Two weeks ago, I began a discussion of Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang's Heaven: A...

July 08, 2015

An Honest Anabaptist Named Jacques

For all their humility and reputation for being “the quiet in the land,” Mennonites sure...

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