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June 2015

June 01, 2015

Myth-History and Real History

Over the past few weeks, I have been posting about the Book of Mormon, and...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

What Scholars Do

I have been discussing the historical credentials of the Book of Mormon, in order to...

May 27, 2015

Five Reasons Carter Wasn’t So Bad

Carter has been maligned for being a weak, ineffective, micromanaging president. Randall Balmer begs to...

May 26, 2015

Baptists in America: A History

Next Monday marks the formal release date for my new book (with Barry Hankins) Baptists in...

May 25, 2015

On Scripture and Tradition

I’ve just returned from a conference at Georgetown University exploring the legacy of the Second...

May 24, 2015

Buddhists, Christians, and Godly Prosperity

The Buddhist magazine Tricycle sometimes offers really fine writing, and the past Spring issue included...

May 22, 2015

Ordinary Faith and Extraordinary History

As a historical source on the ancient Americas, the Book of Mormon is worthless. That...

May 21, 2015

Evangelical Oats

Reuben Torrey and Henry Crowell are the two key figures in Timothy Gloege's outstanding Guaranteed...

May 20, 2015

A Time of Commencement: Religious Liberty

As the end of May approaches, most colleges and universities in the United States have...

May 19, 2015

Why Weren’t Baptists More Enthusiastic Patriots?

Today's post comes from chapter 3 of my new book Baptists in America: A History (Oxford University...

May 18, 2015

Wandering Over the Plains of the Nephites

In my last post, on the Book of Mormon, I asked a question: Does the...

May 17, 2015

Mormons and New World History

Recently, I have been posting on fringe and mainstream ideas in scholarship, and have identified...

May 15, 2015

The Monte Verde Principle

I have been discussing fringe or marginal theories that run contrary to the scholarly consensus...

May 13, 2015

Tom Brady and Joseph Smith, Lies and Liars

"And yet Joseph Smith was plainly a liar," informs Lawrence Wright in his best-selling Going...

May 13, 2015

Doing Bad to Do Good: Carter’s Race-Baiting Election of 1970

In 1970 Jimmy Carter ran a sordid campaign for governor of Georgia. Courting the support...

May 12, 2015

Do You Love Theology More Than Jesus?

In a recent blog post lamenting Southern Baptists' decision to disinvite Ben Carson from speaking at...

May 10, 2015

Gaudium et Spes for Mother’s Day

Gaudium et Spes (Joy and Hope) was one of the remarkable documents of the Second...

May 08, 2015

Outliers and Iconoclasts

I have been writing about mainstream and fringe scholarship, and defending the sometimes unpopular idea...

May 07, 2015

Corporate Evangelicalism

Recently, Kevin Kruse's One Nation Under God has generated considerable attention for its claims about...

May 06, 2015

The Limits of Free Speech?

The moment you limit free speech it's not free speech. ~Salman Rushdie In the wake...

May 05, 2015

“Theological Police”? Paleo Evangelicals and Ben Carson

In the week since my Washington Post piece on Baptists and Ben Carson, some critics...

May 04, 2015

I Want to Believe

Last year, Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson published an impressively dreadful book called The Lost...

May 01, 2015

The Seekers and the Sought

I have been writing about the English Non-Juror movement. About 1710, these dissident High Church...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

Alexander Hamilton’s “Christian Constitutional Society”

Today's guest post comes from Jonathan Den Hartog, associate professor of history at the University...

April 29, 2015

The Guy Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln

150 years ago this past Sunday, Boston Corbett killed the assassin John Wilkes Booth at...

April 28, 2015

Ben Carson and Baptist Identity

This week's column comes from my piece at The Washington Post - "Southern Baptists canceled...

April 27, 2015

Show a Bishop some Hospitality

On Monday, April 20, Boston’s Archbishop, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, visited Gordon College, where I teach....

April 24, 2015

Under God

Don't blame the book, blame the reviewer. Kevin M. Kruse has a new book called...

April 23, 2015

Wolf Hall’s Prophetess

Having transitioned from Downton Abbey to Wolf Hall, PBS's Masterpiece Theater has entered onto terrain...

April 22, 2015

Journal Full of Joy

Of the reading of journals, there is no end, and yet much reading of them...

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