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February 2015

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...

February 04, 2015

Molly Worthen on the Mennonites

In 1947 future Christianity Today editor Carl Henry wrote The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism....

February 03, 2015

Ben Franklin’s Calvinist Father

Greetings friends! Writing here from beautiful and chilly St Andrews, Scotland, where we are spending...

February 01, 2015

The Good War and the New Age

The 1940s witnessed a boom in esoteric and occult movements, and we so often encounter...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

The 1940s and America’s Proto-New Age

The decade of the 1940s represents a profoundly underappreciated era in American history, and that...

January 29, 2015

Be Nice to Missionaries

There are many good reasons to read Craig Harline's Way Below the Angels: the pretty...

January 28, 2015

American Sniper, Blue Bible

Spoiler Alert: In the post below, I disclose some of the details of the plot...

January 26, 2015

Mani the Prophet

There is an excellent new contribution to the literature on the Manichaean religion: Iain Gardner,...

January 25, 2015

Mani and the Persian Kings

I have been reading an excellent new scholarly book on the Manichaean religion: Iain Gardner,...

January 23, 2015

Enter Adam

In the mid-first century AD, St. Paul wrote some hugely influential words about Adam, the...

January 22, 2015

The Kirtland Temple

Every year tens of thousands of people visit the Kirtland Temple, dedicated in 1836 by...

January 21, 2015

Divided by Reason: Molly Worthen on Evangelicalism

For good reason, Molly Worthen’s Apostles of Reason has enjoyed a lot of attention (Slate,...

January 20, 2015

The Church and Robert Nisbet’s Quest for Community

I recently read Robert Nisbet's classic work The Quest for Community (1953), a challenging and far-sighted...

January 18, 2015

The Slain God

I have been enjoying the latest book by Timothy Larsen, The Slain God: Anthropologists and...

January 16, 2015

In Search of the Fall

The two centuries or so before Jesus’s time were a wildly productive era in terms...

January 15, 2015

Evangelical Anti-abolitionists

Even in slaveholding states, many white Americans were uneasy about the morality of black slavery...

January 14, 2015

The Unintended Consequences of Evangelical Cooperation

Last year, Crossway announced the publication of David Wells’ God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of...

January 13, 2015

Is Islam Inherently Violent?

The horrific attack on the staff of Paris's Charlie Hedbo has renewed questions about Muslims and...

January 12, 2015

Determined

In his parable of the wheat and the tares, Jesus spoke of the Devil sowing...

January 11, 2015

The Bounty of Keston

For anyone interested in Christian history, Baylor University’s archives have rich holdings on all sorts...

January 09, 2015

Creating Satan

In the last centuries before the Christian Era, the Devil enjoyed an impressive rise both...

January 08, 2015

Why Mormons Love Margaret Barker

Several years ago, a Latter-day Saint friend encouraged me to read British Methodist theologian Margaret...

January 07, 2015

Religious History at the AHA

I wasn’t able to attend the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New...

January 06, 2015

The Church and the Dissolving American Family

A new Pew report has confirmed what we've known was coming for the American family: a majority...

January 05, 2015

New Year, Old You

Many of us already have bound ourselves to resolutions this year. After fitness the most...

January 04, 2015

The Devil’s Progress

I remarked that Satan is difficult to trace in the canonical Old Testament, but that...

January 02, 2015

The Rise of Satan

The story of Satan is one of remarkable upward mobility. Let me tell that story...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

The Best of 2014: My Favorite Posts of the Year

Happy New Year's Eve! Yesterday, blogmeister Tommy Kidd graciously posted the top posts from each...

December 29, 2014

The Curse of Memory

The recent furor over shootings of civilians by police has inspired a lot of discussion...