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2024-12-20T13:49:21-04:00

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: In Every Heart There is a Womb

Last updated on: December 20, 2024 at 1:49 pm By Jacob Randolph

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For my post this month, I wanted to revisit my Christmas post from last December. I’m still compelled by the power of this metaphor and the theologians who utilized it to draw closer to the incarnate Christ. I hope it blesses you as well! – JR In Every Heart There Is a Womb: Mary’s Pregnancy and Ours As I’ve been thinking about what to bring to my column this month in preparation for the birth of Christ, two things have... Read more

medieval Christianity

2024-12-18T07:11:32-04:00

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Gene Wolfe, James Hogg, and Two Brilliant Gothic Novels

Last updated on: December 18, 2024 at 7:11 am By Philip Jenkins

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I have a literary discovery to report, and I think I can claim a first here. It involves two works. One is by a great modern-day Christian novelist, and the other by an older author who wrote a stunning work on one particular tradition of the faith. This latter is the Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg, published in 1824, and which therefore now celebrates its 200th anniversary. I am going to be a little cagey about the... Read more

2024-12-17T08:18:33-04:00

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The Bible Told Them So: An Interview with Rusty Hawkins

Last updated on: December 17, 2024 at 8:18 am By David Swartz

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The people who were making these arguments for colorblind individualism in the late 1960s and early 1970s were the same people who ten years earlier were saying that God was a segregationist. They were not making good-faith arguments about doing what was in the best interest of their fellow Black Christians. They were fashioning a new defense of segregation and calling it colorblindness. Read more

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2024-12-16T12:49:05-04:00

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Christ as Mother and Child: Advent Reflections with Ephrem

Last updated on: December 16, 2024 at 12:49 pm By Adam Renberg

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My childhood experience of Christmas morning, like most, was marked by certain traditions. My siblings and I would wake up and excitedly descend to the living room to see a mass of presents under the tree. Then, we would eat my mother’s delicious monkey bread rapidly to get to the presents as quickly as possible. Before we tore open the wrapping paper concealing those treasures though, my father would pull out his Bible and slowly read from Luke 2 (it... Read more

History and Religion

2024-12-13T03:08:47-04:00

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Writing Guadalupe as a Nahua-Christian Story

Last updated on: December 13, 2024 at 3:08 am By Verónica A. Gutiérrez

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I am writing this post on December 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a day of great rejoicing in Mexico and indeed throughout the Americas, celebrating that the Mother of God came down in the form of a Nahua to help her Nahua children. I am closer to the story this year than in years past because I am deep into the final chapters of my manuscript about Juan Diego, the 16th century indigenous visionary to whom Guadalupe... Read more

Verónica A. Gutiérrez

2024-12-12T06:48:04-04:00

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Why Historians Really Need to Know About NGrams

Last updated on: December 12, 2024 at 6:48 am By Philip Jenkins

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I have posted quite often here on the theme of American empire throughout history, and specifically its relationship to shaping religion. This post concerns a very useful and quite surprising way of approaching that topic. Unlike other leading Western countries, the US has been quite ambiguous about its empire, and whether in fact we can even speak of such a thing. You don’t have to go too far back in history to find claims that the US was the only... Read more

2024-12-11T01:52:34-04:00

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Christmas Letter to My Sons

Last updated on: December 11, 2024 at 1:52 am By Michael Jimenez

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I decided to experiment a little bit this month by writing a letter addressed to my sons, highlighting the lessons I have learned this year that I would like to pass on to them. Dear L & R, Honoring the fact that we are one of those families that celebrate the Christmas season early, I decided to write a Christmas letter reflecting on what I have learned from both of you. This might come as quite a shock since the... Read more

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Education and Religion

2024-12-08T23:07:04-04:00

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Christ Followers: Religion or an Ethnic Group?

Last updated on: December 8, 2024 at 11:07 pm By Paul Thompson

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Arguably the greatest benefit of being a scholar at a Christian university is the opportunity to develop your faith and pursue your scholarship as one seamless, integrated, and wholistic endeavor. For those of us who used to teach in secular institutions, this contrast is immediately palpable upon being employed at a Christ centered university. While my initial academic training focused on African Americans, religion, and reform in the 19th century, today my interests are the contemporary realities of African American... Read more

History and Religion

2024-12-08T12:48:46-04:00

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Our Editor’s Best Books of 2024

Last updated on: December 8, 2024 at 12:48 pm By Joey Cochran

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The past couple years I have provided a round-up of my favorite reads (see here for 2022 and here for 2023), which I refer to as the best books of the year. Some are old and some are new. But here is my selection for this year. I’ll start with my top 10 reads in the new/recent book category. I’ll then turn to highlighting other, less recent, but valued reads that occupied my attention this year. 1. God Gave Rock... Read more

History and Religion

2024-12-05T23:43:02-04:00

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Mary the Theologian

Last updated on: December 5, 2024 at 11:43 pm By Lisa Clark Diller

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We know so little about women in history, including the Bible. And yet they are there, all over. If we can’t imagine what discipleship could look like for ordinary people—half the population!—then following Jesus looks like something that you have to be either cranks or saints to do. The stories of women can illuminate a wider range of ways that we can follow God’s leading. They open windows into the many contexts in which human beings have tried to live... Read more

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