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2025-12-21T15:32:36-04:00

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My Farewell to the Anxious Bench

Last updated on: December 21, 2025 at 3:32 pm By Daniel K. Williams

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After five and a half years on the Anxious Bench, the time has come to say goodbye. Given my other writing commitments during the coming year (including regularly posting on my Substack and writing more frequently for Christianity Today and other venues), I decided that it was time to step away from the Anxious Bench, so this will be my last regular Anxious Bench post. I’m leaving with a lot of gratitude for the Anxious Bench and its administrators over... Read more

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2025-12-22T12:19:50-04:00

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Jack’s (C. S. Lewis) War on Xmas

Last updated on: December 22, 2025 at 12:19 pm By Joey Cochran

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To say Jack’s relationship with Xmas was tendentious is to understate it. Even in his youth, elements of the season niggled at him. He did not care for the parties and dances, which included gift giving, feasting, drinking, and dancing. The dancing he especially loathed. In a November 1913 letter to his father, he begged him to not host a party that year and to put to death the hopes of co-conspirators, who wished for Papy to squander money on... Read more

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2025-12-21T12:34:23-04:00

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Two Christianities at the Heart of Wake Up Dead Man

Last updated on: December 21, 2025 at 12:34 pm By Jacob Randolph

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Note: This post contains spoilers for Wake Up Dead Man. “You here to take my church away from me?” It is the first question Monsignor Jefferson Wicks asks Father Jud Duplenticy when Jud arrived at Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude. Mons. Wicks and Father Jud are the central characters in Rian Johnson’s newest Knives Out installment, Wake Up Dead Man. Johnson’s murder mystery franchise has been at the forefront of a whodunnit revival in Hollywood, due in no small part to Johnson’s... Read more

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2025-12-17T12:42:28-04:00

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Gentlemen Clergymen in the Mud and Blood of World War One

Last updated on: December 17, 2025 at 12:42 pm By Philip Jenkins

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A guest blogpost today, by my great friend, Tim Larsen, who teaches at Wheaton College and is the president of the American Society of Church History. Tim is a truly prolific scholar with a sizable range of quite excellent books on the history of religion. Because of my own interests in the history of the First World War, I was delighted to see his most recent publication, which is The Fires of Moloch: Anglican Clergymen in the Furnace of World War... Read more

2025-12-09T17:07:19-04:00

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Whence AI Apostle Ron? A Christian History of AI (Pt. 2)

Last updated on: December 9, 2025 at 5:07 pm By Alex Mayfield

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AI Apostle Ron was far from the first AI to be invented by a member of the clergy. According to his medieval biographers, the monk Gerbert of Aurillac made a pact with the devil and built for himself a metal, talking head. When the stars were properly aligned, the head would speak when asked a yes-or-no question. Ever the climber, Gerbert asked the head if he would be pope. The head responded, “Yes.” He then asked if he would die... Read more

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2025-12-16T05:25:26-04:00

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On the ‘Middle’ Coming: Advent Reflections with Romanos

Last updated on: December 16, 2025 at 5:25 am By Adam Renberg

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Time and space are peculiar during the Advent season. The emphasis on repeated family traditions resurrects memories of the past amidst present celebrations, transporting us to a different year and place. One such tradition for me began in my childhood in Michigan—singing Silent Night with my parents and siblings after decorating the Christmas tree. This year, I am celebrating Christmas with my wife and children in Northern Norway, a different place with different people in a different year. Yet, when... Read more

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2025-12-11T08:41:20-04:00

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New England’s Religious Wars in Poganuc People

Last updated on: December 11, 2025 at 8:41 am By Philip Jenkins

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I posted last time about the 1878 novel Poganuc People, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (hereafter, HBS), with a focus on its Christmas stories. By way of reminder, the novel depicts life in a fictionalized version of Litchfield, Connecticut, in the 1820s, where HBS’s father Lyman Beecher was a venerated Calvinist preacher. (In the book he appears as the learned Dr. Cushing). But the book also has a lot to tell us about the Episcopal church, of which the author was... Read more

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2025-12-10T09:37:25-04:00

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Hope in December: A Holocaust Survivor’s Story

Last updated on: December 10, 2025 at 9:37 am By Michael Jimenez

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I just received news early last week that Holocaust survivor, Dr. Jacob Eisenbach, passed away. I was asked if we would like to host a visit by the 102 year old speaker mid-October and I jumped at the chance to have him tell his story. I figured that so many of the witnesses of the horrors of the Holocaust are now dead that I did not want to miss this opportunity for my students. I believe that hearing from a... Read more

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2025-12-07T23:01:10-04:00

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Education, Politics, and DEI . . . Again

Last updated on: December 7, 2025 at 11:01 pm By Paul Thompson

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Ms. Samantha Fulnecky’s grade of zero that she earned on a reflection paper she submitted in a junior level University of Oklahoma psychology class has been the topic of rage du jur among higher education pundits, the right-leaning social media, and Republican officials this past week. As usual in our culture of rage, most people airing their opinions know precious little facts about the topic that is enraging them. Sadly, I have also been guilty of this, but in this... Read more

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2025-12-14T16:57:24-04:00

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Discovering Christmas in a Classic Episcopal Novel

Last updated on: December 14, 2025 at 4:57 pm By Philip Jenkins

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Today’s post concerns a nineteenth century American novel that few non-specialists will have heard of. If it is not great literature, it is a phenomenally useful (and under-used) resource for the country’s religious history in that era, for Protestant denominations in general, but specifically for my own Episcopal Church. More important, discussing it really gets to the question of how we write that history, moving away from the role of great preachers and revivalists to studying the role of ordinary... Read more

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