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April 2024

April 18, 2024
Through the years, I have been much engaged studying the topic of sexual abuse by...
April 17, 2024
A few notes before jumping into this interview, which I am delighted to present to...
April 16, 2024
I have several Bibles on my shelf—some in ancient languages, some translations that I use...
April 15, 2024
Hi! I am a cultural sociologist on a tour of Texas Megachurches. Check out my...
April 12, 2024
Los Reyes Magos, ca. 1875-1900, carved and painted wood with metal and string. Smithsonian American...
April 11, 2024
Britain during the 1960s and 1970s suffered from a Prime Minister named Harold Wilson. Once,...
April 10, 2024
"I distrust folks who have ugly things to say about Karl Barth. I like old...
April 09, 2024
The emergence of mid-twentieth century evangelicalism, often referred to as “New Evangelicalism” or “Neo-Evangelicalism,” created...
April 08, 2024
A month ago on this site, in “The Crisis of the Evangelical Heart” Joey Cochran...
April 05, 2024
This is a click-bait question, but over the last few weeks it is one that...
April 04, 2024
I have a literary dilemma. I want to rave about a piece of writing –...
April 02, 2024
If you’ve been following the news this past week, you’ve likely seen something about the...

March 2024

March 29, 2024
by Janine Giordano Drake When Woodrow Wilson ran for president in 1912, he called himself...
March 28, 2024
A passage in the Alexandrian writer Philo casts a curious light on Christian origins, and...
March 27, 2024
A couple weeks ago I saw the classic 1962 Western The Man Who Shot Liberty...
March 26, 2024
When even the most conservative of American evangelicals started drinking alcohol, they lost their movement’s...
March 25, 2024
When I was doing the research for my book about Hmong refugee resettlement in the...
March 21, 2024
This coming weekend we celebrate Palm Sunday, the dramatic events that mark the beginning of...
March 20, 2024
“You should always be proud of being an Indian. But never tell anyone.” This was...
March 19, 2024
The Council of Chalcedon is famously the standard of Christological orthodoxy. The definition put forth...
March 18, 2024
Hi! I am a cultural sociologist on a tour of Texas Megachurches. Check out my...
March 17, 2024
Evangelicals in the States like to have the Reformers and Puritans on their side. However,...
March 15, 2024
During Covid, when churches across the country moved their services outside, some might have considered...
March 14, 2024
The new issue of the Atlantic has a fine piece on a topic that has...
March 13, 2024
I have heard the name Wendell Berry for years, but I have never made the...
March 12, 2024
We have a crisis on our hands, and it is the crisis of the evangelical...
March 11, 2024
When Pope Francis named the Armenian monk Gregory of Narek (c. 951-1003) the thirty-sixth universal...
March 08, 2024
In 1789 a sailor who had been enslaved, bought his freedom, and become part of...
March 07, 2024
This post concerns a prayer of which I am fond, and which should be better...
March 06, 2024
Unlike a number of my colleagues at the Anxious Bench, I’m not currently a professor....
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