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April 2015

April 21, 2015

What’s at Stake in Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law?

Dr. Barry Hankins is professor of history at Baylor University, and the co-author, with Thomas...

April 20, 2015

Envisioning Islam

A short post on an important topic. I have written a good deal on Eastern...

April 17, 2015

Somewhere, Beyond The Sea

As I described in my last post, the Non-Jurors were a High Church movement within...

April 16, 2015

The Mormon Bonhoeffer

In the 1970s, Latter-day Saint leaders began to quote C.S. Lewis in the semi-annual General...

April 15, 2015

The United States of Freberg

I cringe a bit when my children break into show tunes while in public. Selections...

April 14, 2015

Should You Pursue a Ph.D.?

I routinely get questions from undergraduate and Master's students, at Baylor and elsewhere, about applying...

April 13, 2015

Not an execution, but an execution sermon

Last week Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on thirty counts. Jurors—and everyone else in and...

April 10, 2015

Non-Jurors

I recently reconnected with some old friends – well, very old really, about three centuries...

April 09, 2015

Headship and Abuse

Today's guest post is from Kristin du Mez, Associate Professor of History at Calvin College....

April 08, 2015

Does Christian Liberal Arts Education Have a Future?

A month ago, the board of Sweet Briar College announced that the school, which has educated...

April 07, 2015

The Counterintuitive Art of Promoting Books

Everyone seemingly wants to be an author, and most authors want to promote their books....

April 06, 2015

Messiahs at Qumran

Messianic visions became central to Jewish thought during the second century BC, and the Dead...

April 03, 2015

Making the Messiah

The figure of the Messiah has been critical to both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. Christians,...

April 02, 2015

Mormons, Race, and Slavery

In the middle of 1870, Scipio Africanus Kenner feared losing the girl he loved. For...

April 01, 2015

Beyond Playboy: The Inner Life of Jimmy Carter

In 1976 Playboy magazine conducted its infamous interview of Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter. The...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Can Evangelicals Become More Likeable?

Over at the New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof - one of America's most open-minded liberal...

March 30, 2015

The Minaret and the Bell Tower

I’ve recently returned from some travels to the Andalusia province in Southern Spain. Under Muslim...

March 29, 2015

Messiahs by the Sackful

Some timely thoughts for Holy Week! In Jesus Christ Superstar, a mocking Pilate complains that...

March 27, 2015

The Deist Revolution

I echo pretty much everything my colleague Tommy Kidd wrote in his recent column What...

March 26, 2015

Hunting Heretics

The heresiography (or heresiology) is something of a dying genre among Christians today. For centuries,...

March 25, 2015

American Religion in the 1950s

From the Archive. Originally posted July 31, 2013. In American memory, the 1950s are often portrayed...

March 24, 2015

What Is Deism?

The claim that any of the Founding Fathers were deists generates pushback among certain conservatives. This...

March 23, 2015

Making the Church of the East

Christianity spread in the Persian Empire during the second and third centuries, when it became...

March 21, 2015

Understanding the Islamic State

Violence related to religion is obviously very much in the news right now. I want...

March 20, 2015

Importing Christianity

In the third century, Christianity spread into the Persian Empire, where it became a powerful...

March 18, 2015

Jesus, Time, and Calendars

A funny thing has happened to time during my adult lifetime. When I began college,...

March 18, 2015

The Entrepreneurial Evangelicals

The title refers not to Sam Walton of Wal-Mart fame or to George Pepperdine, who...

March 17, 2015

Handling Rejection in Academic Writing

Today's guest post is by Dr. Beth Allison Barr, Department of History, Baylor University. You...

March 16, 2015

Is This the Kind of Lent I Desire? The Fast and the Cleanse

When Lent begins early, as it did this year, calls to prayer and fasting...

March 13, 2015

Persia’s Christian Roots

I have been exploring the history of Christianity within the Persian Empire, a subject very...

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