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March 18, 2026

Epic Fury in the End-Times: Exploring Pentecostal War Ethics

Since its inception, the ongoing Iran conflict has been awash in religious rhetoric. Secretary of...

March 22, 2022

The Religious History of Daylight Saving

I don't often dip into my archives and reprise a post. But since the U.S....

March 12, 2022

Can We Curse Putin? A Brief History of American Christians Using Imprecatory Psalms

Christians often struggle with the cursing language of the imprecatory psalms. But Chris found that...

December 2021

December 23, 2021

The Great War’s Great Christmas Memorial

Chris explains the history of a war memorial that's "both more ephemeral and more enduring...

November 2021

November 09, 2021

“God’s Time”: The Religious History of Daylight Saving

As usual, I celebrated the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST) this past weekend by...

August 2021

August 28, 2021

“Here I am, send me” in American Military History

On Thursday, Pres. Joe Biden invoked Isaiah 6:8 in eulogizing American service members killed in Kabul,...

August 10, 2021

The American Christians Who Couldn’t Worship in Their Own Language

When the United States entered World War I, reports Chris, it wasn't just German Americans...

June 2021

June 02, 2021

Unexpected Sites of Christian Pacifism: Mennocostal Edition

Can Pentecostal spirituality and Mennonite peace move together as a great river flowing with justice...

January 2021

January 28, 2021

“To Touch the Face of God”

35 years ago today, President Ronald Reagan eulogized the astronauts who died in the Challenger...

September 2020

September 29, 2020

Will Evangelicals Support a Commander in Chief Who Disdains the Military?

Evangelical Christians tend to be strong supporters of both President Trump and the U.S. military....

August 2020

August 25, 2020

A Christian and a Socialist

He shows up in my spiritual biography of Charles Lindbergh, but I wish I knew...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

How Unique is Our Present Crisis Really?

For 9 years now, nearly every semester I have taught a survey course on the...

April 11, 2020

Beware the Return to Normalcy

Many of us are yearning to "return to normal," as Americans tried to do a...

March 2020

March 10, 2020

What the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Meant for American Churches

In the fall of 1918, the influenza pandemic caused cities around the United States to...

February 2020

February 14, 2020

How the Virgin of Guadalupe Came to Boalsburg, Pennsylvania

Look at this figure, and tell me what it is, and where it is. The...

October 2019

October 25, 2019

Percy Jackson and the Problem of Western Civilization

In the Percy Jackson stories, Western civilization is described as "a collective consciousness that has...

October 08, 2019

The Magic of History

Reading Harry Potter with his kids has got Chris thinking that history can be almost...

September 2019

September 17, 2019

The Heirs of 1918: WWI and Native American Life

A recent visit to a museum on an Ojibwe reservation got Chris thinking about how...

July 2019

July 06, 2019

Family Reflections on the World Wars

Beth's and Chris' parents share reflections on visiting world war battlefields in Flanders, the Somme,...

May 2019

May 14, 2019

When Churches Were Left in Ruins

About a month after the fire that nearly destroyed Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral, it's clear that...

April 2019

April 17, 2019

The Crucifixions of the World Wars

As Christians prepare for Good Friday, Chris considers how the Crucifixion helped Europeans make meaning...

December 2018

December 24, 2018

The Great War’s Christmas Memorial

Why Chris' favorite World War I memorial is the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols...

December 18, 2018

They Shall Not Grow Old: WWI According to Peter Jackson

Chris reviews the stunning new World War I documentary by Peter Jackson, a filmmaker better...

December 11, 2018

The Past As It Should Have Happened

Historians often say that they study the past "as it actually happened." But they can't...

November 2018

November 24, 2018

World War I and Christ the King Sunday

Why Christ the King Sunday is a religious legacy of World War I and its...

November 11, 2018

100 Years After The Great War: “The Sheep That Were Not Fed”

On this 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Chris reflects on the...

November 09, 2018

1918: Did the War End Too Soon?

Did the First World War end too soon? At first sight, such a question might...

October 2018

October 26, 2018

The Last Days of Mankind

We are presently commemorating the centennial of the end of the First World War, and...

September 2018

September 04, 2018

Poetry of the Air

Since the dawn of aviation, certain pilots have turned to poetry to express the inexpressible...

August 2018

August 28, 2018

The Smell of History

What does the past smell like? Chris shares a couple of historically evocative aromas from...