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July 2015

July 07, 2015

Should Evangelicals Embrace the “Benedict Option”?

Rod Dreher has been blogging about the need for traditional Christians to embrace the "Benedict...

July 06, 2015

Islam in the Christian College?

(The conference mentioned below in this previous post has been funded and will take place...

July 05, 2015

The Book of Mormon, Revisited

No, that’s not a reference to the musical. In recent weeks, I have posted several...

July 03, 2015

Pseudo-Prophets and Real Kings

The independent Jewish kingdom of the second and first centuries BC – the Hasmonean state...

July 01, 2015

The Quick Triumph of Same-Sex Marriage

From the 2013 Anxious Bench archives... About a decade ago, the historian David Chappell wrote...

July 01, 2015

Looking Back to Think Ahead: Baptists and Obergefell v. Hodges

A committed evangelical, today I write out of and to my narrower ecclesiastical tradition (Baptist) as I...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Yes, Remove the Confederate Flag. But What Then?

I have a pretty strong personal history of wrestling with the memory of the Confederacy....

June 29, 2015

Blows Against the Empire

People in the modern West are properly critical of the whole idea of imperialism, and...

June 27, 2015

#CharlestonSyllabus

Bloggers and professors at the African American Intellectual History Society have put together a timely...

June 26, 2015

Parties at War

Reading Josephus’s history of the Jewish people in the century or so before the Common...

June 25, 2015

The Biblical Heavens

What do you think of when you think of heaven? Is your first thought God...

June 24, 2015

The Thee Decade: The 1970s Was More Than Bad Hair

The decade of the Seventies has a rather dismal reputation. In his creatively titled book...

June 23, 2015

How Can Southern Baptists Get Their Groove Back?

Last week at The Washington Post, Barry Hankins and I offered three reasons why Southern...

June 22, 2015

Napoleon and Christianity

The 200th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s well-known defeat at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 has...

June 21, 2015

Paul the Covert

I have to share this. One of the classic works on Judaism and early Christianity...

June 19, 2015

The Age of Tyrants

Josephus recorded the history of the Jewish people in the last two centuries before the...

June 17, 2015

Child Preachers, Then and Now

The New York Times recently published a fascinating report on Brazilian Pentecostal "child preachers," which...

June 17, 2015

Southern Baptists: Cooperative Autonomy?

In my first outing as an official representative of Hannibal-LaGrange University, I have spent the...

June 16, 2015

Benjamin Franklin, Skepticism, and The Enlightenment

As I have written previously at the Anxious Bench, I am skeptical about "The Enlightenment."...

June 15, 2015

Reading Josephus

I have been working on the two or three centuries before the start of the...

June 14, 2015

The Nahom Follies

I wasn’t planning to write this piece, but so many of the comments on my...

June 12, 2015

Historians’ Fallacies

My recent columns have concerned methods of academic debate, and the gulf that separates true...

June 10, 2015

The King James Bible and American Religious History

After various children's bibles, I first read the Good News Bible. Since the Bible turned...

June 10, 2015

The Past and Presence of Progressive Evangelicalism

Brantley Gasaway’s new book on progressive evangelicalism opens with a striking story. In 1985 evangelical...

June 09, 2015

Caitlyn Jenner, The Duggars, and The Culture of Gawking

The news cycles and Twitter trends of recent weeks have reminded us of just how...

June 08, 2015

Road Trip, with Manasseh Cutler

'Tis the season for the road trip, not just for getting from point A to...

June 05, 2015

Academic Heresy and Atlantic Ice

I have been writing about the nature of academic debate, and how scholars assess claims....

June 04, 2015

Public Penance

There does seem to be a basic societal need for penance. In previous days, penance...

June 03, 2015

Mark Noll on Darwinism

Eminent Notre Dame historian Mark Noll has written a pithy and provocative piece for the...

June 02, 2015

The Blind Spots of an American Evangelical

Collin Hansen's new book Blind Spots has initiated a helpful conversation about what American evangelicals conventionally...

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