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September 2026

September 28, 2026

What Coffee Reveals About America’s Evangelical Varieties

How Do You Take Your Evangelicalism? Evangelical experiences vary across America. The ideology expresses itself...

August 2026

August 24, 2026

Gil Dodds, The Flying Parson

Gil Dodds ran, and boy was he fleet of foot. During his early life, he...

July 2026

July 27, 2026

The Evangelical Brand Image Crisis

Take your pick from examples of the evangelical brand image crisis. Just go over to...

July 03, 2026

Profiting on Promoting 250 Years of Christian Nationalism

Celebrations commemorating 250 years of America have been an opportunity for evangelicals to reflect on...

January 2026

January 26, 2026

Our American Horror Story

We are all living in an American horror story. As we navigate this era of...

December 2025

December 22, 2025

Jack’s (C. S. Lewis) War on Xmas

To say Jack’s relationship with Xmas was tendentious is to understate it. Even in his...

November 2025

November 24, 2025

Best Books of 2025

In keeping with past tradition since joining the illustrious team of historians at the Anxious...

October 2025

October 27, 2025

Everyday Evangelical Resistance for My Chicago Neighbors

“And who are my neighbors?” (Luke 10:29b) Mea culpa: This article is a combination of...

September 2025

September 22, 2025

The Charlie Kirk Memorial: a Funeral, a Revival, a Rally

On Sunday, September 21, 2025, thousands of people attended the Charlie Kirk Memorial at State...

August 2025

August 25, 2025

John Mark Comer, Penal Substitution, and Evangelical Power

Reformed Evangelical Concerns About Comer Escalate Over a hot summer August weekend in 2025, evangelicals...

July 2025

July 21, 2025

Evangelical Church Camps and Privilege

Evangelical church camps found their ascendance in the twentieth century. The privilege of resort and...

June 2025

June 23, 2025

Trump’s God-Gilded Realpolitik Ended the 12-Day War

Apparently, the 12-day War is ending, all thanks to Trump's God-gilded realpolitik. What do I...

January 2025

January 11, 2025

New Interim Editor of the Anxious Bench

When I first was asked to be the editor of the Anxious Bench, I was...

December 2024

December 08, 2024

Our Editor’s Best Books of 2024

The past couple years I have provided a round-up of my favorite reads (see here...

November 2024

November 16, 2024

The Risk of Social Media Engagement for Historians

This column is adapted from my introductory remarks on "The Risk of Social Media Engagement...

August 2024

August 10, 2024

On the Newsweek Article about Christian Colleges

Rachel Dobkin interviewed me in May for a Newsweek article that published this past Sunday...

July 2024

July 31, 2024

Evangelical Outrage Over Olympic Opening Ceremony

Outrage aptly describes the evangelical response to the Paris Olympic Opening Ceremonies this past week....

June 2024

June 01, 2024

The Evangelical Response to the Trump Verdict

Since the rule of law was upheld in the courts of New York on Thursday,...

May 2024

May 14, 2024

And Come to the Defense of Those Targeted

Christian leaders and institutions must come to the defense of those targeted by white Christian...

April 2024

April 21, 2024

Taylor Swift, Tortured Poets Department and Exegesis

I think Taylor Swift, J. J. Abrams, and pre-critical exegesis share something in common. They...

April 09, 2024

Is It Time To Rebrand Brand Evangelicals?

The emergence of mid-twentieth century evangelicalism, often referred to as “New Evangelicalism” or “Neo-Evangelicalism,” created...

April 08, 2024

Speaking the Unspeakable

A month ago on this site, in “The Crisis of the Evangelical Heart” Joey Cochran...

March 2024

March 17, 2024

Undiscerned Retrieval: Ockenga and Protestant History

Evangelicals in the States like to have the Reformers and Puritans on their side. However,...

March 12, 2024

The Crisis of the Evangelical Heart

We have a crisis on our hands, and it is the crisis of the evangelical...

February 2024

February 13, 2024

The American Bible Society and Its Good News for Modern Man

The only answer to modern man’s problems is the good news. At least that’s how...

December 2023

December 30, 2023

Best Books of 2023

Last year I introduced my “Best Books” column with some strategies for how to read....

December 06, 2023

Evangelicals Behaving Badly

[Article Updated, December 19, 2023: Some words have been added/altered to recognize that Stackhouse disputes...

October 2023

October 10, 2023

The Israel-Hamas Attack and the Evangelical Christian Response

Early on Saturday morning October 7, over a thousand Hamas attacked Israeli citizens and military,...

September 2023

September 12, 2023

The Remarkable Account of the Freedman, Anthony Johnson

Antonio the Negro arrived in Virginia in 1621, which means he witnessed the devastating attacks...

August 2023

August 08, 2023

Perennial Challenges for Christian Historians…and Two Defeaters of Them

A perennial challenge for historians, who are Christians, is the challenge of finding acceptance and...