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January 2022

January 24, 2022

The Best Study-Abroad Program in Christian Higher-Ed

I have recently completed teaching a study-abroad course with students from both Gordon College (where...

January 05, 2022

(Two) Year in Review: Women, Baptists, and Science, Oh My!

Inspired by Chris’s excellent annual overviews of the themes in our blogging, I decided to...

November 2021

November 29, 2021

“The First Atheist State in the World”

While religious Americans might have exaggerated the “godlessness” of communism during the Cold War, they...

November 18, 2021

Biblical Authority amidst American Christian Division: From the Civil War to the Present

Supposedly, the split among American evangelical Protestants over slavery in the Civil War era reduced...

November 10, 2021

Christian Scholarship: Metaphysical or Ethical?

A few years ago I was put in charge of our department’s introductory course for...

November 01, 2021

The Boy who Missed the Circus

On July 6, 1944, exactly a month after the Allies' D-day landing at Normandy, the...

October 2021

October 04, 2021

An Unapologetic Defense of Liberal Education

What follows is a book review of Zena Hitz's Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures...

August 2021

August 09, 2021

Was Lenin the Buddha?

In the ebb and flow religious history, reformist movement are often necessary, especially perhaps in...

July 2021

July 26, 2021

Religion, Race, and “Never Have I Ever” – A Roundtable on Season Two

After a painful and exhausting year that found Asian Americans reeling from a surge in...

July 12, 2021

Mail-Order Moral Formation

By now, summer might be testing limits of our altruism to our kids, let alone...

June 2021

June 17, 2021

A Sinking Ship or Weathering the Storm: #SBC21 in 21 Tweets

This week's Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting has been widely viewed as a moment of...

June 14, 2021

The Faiths of Others

I am very pleased to announce that a book that I have worked on for...

May 2021

May 20, 2021

All Welcome? Same-Sex Couples & Faith-Based Adoption Agencies

Today's Anxious Bench post is written by two of my colleagues at Calvin University, Elisha...

May 17, 2021

Making Meaning on a College Campus

My middle-school-aged son once described what I do teaching honors’ college classes as sitting around...

May 13, 2021

John C. Calhoun: American Heretic

How would you like to have a President Trump and a President Biden at the...

May 06, 2021

Race and Liberalism in Dr. Seuss

When Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that six books written by the late bestselling children’s author...

May 03, 2021

How Asian American Religious History Changes How We Write American Religious History

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and in a year when racism and violence...

April 2021

April 26, 2021

Voices of the Voiceless

For a new book projective tentatively entitled “Unholy Wars: Secularist Violence in Modern History,” I...

April 15, 2021

The Cost of Staying Silent

It was more than a decade ago, but I still remember that moment vividly. It...

April 01, 2021

Peace Through Understanding: The Life of a Christian Scholar

I’ve written in this space from time to time on the subject of Christian scholarship,...

March 2021

March 04, 2021

The Surprising, Spiritual Side of Margaret Mead

Today we welcome Elesha Coffman back to the Anxious Bench. Elesha is associate professor of...

February 2021

February 24, 2021

The Sanctifying Value of Staying in the Same Academic Job for Decades

My Ph.D. dissertation advisor taught at Brown University for thirty-three years. Two of the other...

February 23, 2021

A Lenten meditation on the death of Rush Limbaugh

Today we are pleased to welcome former Anxious Bench blogger Tim Gloege back to...

February 22, 2021

An Obscure Centenary

Readers of the New York Times were greeted yesterday with a full-page paid advertisement, notifying...

February 18, 2021

Discipline and Punish: A Guide to Power in American Evangelicalism

“Are you going rogue?” The question startled me. It had come from a professor at...

February 08, 2021

Centering Religion in American History: An Interview with Benjamin Park

Despite ongoing public commentary about how the rise of religious "nones" reveals that "America lost...

January 2021

January 26, 2021

Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, and the Schism in American Civil Religion

Today we welcome Daniel Meeter to the Anxious Bench. Rev. Meeter has retired from nineteen years...

January 14, 2021

Josh Hawley, Betsy DeVos, and Abraham Kuyper: A Reckoning

Today we welcome Janel Kragt Bakker to the Anxious Bench. Janel is Associate Professor of Mission,...

January 07, 2021

Jemar Tisby’s How to Fight Racism

Jemar Tisby has a new book out this week, How to Fight Racism. Is it...

December 2020

December 28, 2020

Religion and Violence: A Book Review

Mark Juergensmeyer, God at War: A Meditation on Religion and Warfare. Oxford University Press, 2020....