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March 2015

March 11, 2015

Lone Star Religion

Review of Robert Wuthnow, Rough Country: How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State (Princeton University...

March 10, 2015

“The Enlightenment” and Its Relevance Today

I am skeptical about "The Enlightenment." It is an ideologically loaded term that implies that...

March 09, 2015

Do We Pay Too Much Attention to Radical Islam?

Judging by media coverage over the past few years, it would be easy to assume...

March 08, 2015

From Qumran to the Gnostics

I have been describing the emergence of some key ideas of sectarian Judaism that continue...

March 06, 2015

The Gnostics and the Interwar Crisis

The first thinkers we can find who probably did advocate complex Gnostic systems belong to...

March 05, 2015

Lincoln’s Shrewd Sermon

Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration as President of the United...

March 04, 2015

The First English-Speaking, Modern, Overseas Baptist Missionary?

Timelines of evangelical history generally mark 1792 as the birth of the "modern missionary movement."...

March 03, 2015

“Woven into the fabric of our country”? Islam in Early America

President Obama created controversy in a recent speech when he asserted that "Islam has been...

March 02, 2015

How to live in terrible times

The news is terrible lately. Maybe news always is bad. Many eras bristle with horror,...

March 01, 2015

Gnostics and Other Christians

It is very difficult to find much evidence of Gnosticism before the start of the...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

Dating the Gnostics

In recent posts on Gnosticism, I have been tracing possible linkages with older Jewish movements....

February 26, 2015

A Thief in the Night

Today, as part of a course on religion and film, I had the opportunity to...

February 25, 2015

The Hare with Amber Eyes

Before reading this book, I had never heard of netsuke, which are intricate miniature ornaments,...

February 24, 2015

What Motivates Jihadists?

Over at The Atlantic, Graeme Wood has a fascinating but disturbing piece on the theological foundations...

February 23, 2015

Philo’s Answer

Greek philosophy made it all but impossible to reconcile the transcendence of God with a...

February 22, 2015

Asking the Wrong Question

I have been puzzling over the origins of Gnosticism, and we can certainly find some...

February 20, 2015

Gnostics and Platonists

Although the origins of Gnostic thought are controversial, many of the core themes and terms...

February 19, 2015

Americans Incarcerate

Americans incarcerate. So begins and ends Jennifer Graber's The Furnace of Affliction: Prisons & Religion...

February 18, 2015

Putin-Loving Evangelicals

Despite some recent reports that the second ceasefire in the war in Ukraine is “generally...

February 17, 2015

Which Is Better: Small Church or Big Church?

A reader of last week's post took exception to my comparison of large churches in...

February 16, 2015

Gordon Wood on Bernard Bailyn

When the great American historian Gordon Wood has a long-form essay on the equally-great Bernard...

February 15, 2015

Athens, Jerusalem and Nag Hammadi

Through the celebrated discovery of many alternative gospels and scriptures, the word Gnostic has entered...

February 13, 2015

The Beginning of Wisdom

I have been posting on the subject of Gnosticism and its origins. By the early...

February 12, 2015

The Promises and Perils of Denominational History

Today’s guest post is by Nathan A. Finn, who serves as associate professor of historical theology...

February 11, 2015

American Evangelicals’ Global Vision Began in Korea

From the Archive. Originally posted March 14, 2013. Religion that is pure and undefiled before...

February 10, 2015

Secularization and Scotland’s Christian Heritage

One of the most immediate differences from America one notices in the U.K. is how...

February 09, 2015

Those Who Know

Ever since my undergraduate years, I have been interested in early Christian history and Gnosticism....

February 08, 2015

Shapur’s Great Persecution

I posted on the topic of early Christian martyrdom, arguing that the phenomenon was as...

February 06, 2015

The Reality of Persecution

Rome was not the only empire in antiquity, nor the only one with a sizable...

February 05, 2015

Jesus Delayed

Christians have no good reason to believe Jesus is coming soon. Okay, in the final...

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