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Christianity and Evangelicalism
As prominent evangelical leaders gather this week at Wheaton, IL, to discuss how the Trump...
April 18, 2018
Scamming for God? The Tale of (Another) Huckster Preacher Kirbyjon Caldwell
Today I am pleased to welcome Jonathan Root to The Anxious Bench. Jonathan Root is...
April 17, 2018
41% of Americans Don’t Know What Auschwitz Was?!?
What a dismal headline for Holocaust Remembrance Day: Americans are forgetting the Holocaust. At least, that...
April 16, 2018
On Getting Churches Totally Wrong
There is a widespread impression that the US mass media are deeply anti-Christian, and that...
April 13, 2018
The Dancer and the Hero
In April 1968, Martin Luther King jr was assassinated in Memphis, and we have heard...
April 12, 2018
The Politics of “Christianity”: An Interview with Matthew Bowman
Matthew Bowman is a historian whose work ranges widely over the intersection of religion, politics,...
April 11, 2018
Falwell vs. Claiborne: A Report from Lynchburg
What Liberty University and the Red Letter Revival in Virginia can tell us about the...
April 10, 2018
Evangelicals in Lynchburg: A Photo Essay
We recently returned from Lynchburg, Virginia, home of Liberty University and the site of the...
April 09, 2018
Christianity and Other Religions
Growing religious diversity, global conflicts that have a religious dimension, and the modern rise of...
April 06, 2018
Remembering a Lost Holy City
My last post looked at arguments for the dating of the four canonical gospels as...
April 05, 2018
Will Beth Moore Help Save Evangelicalism?
"Lord, I repent of ways I've been complicit in & contributed to misogyny & sexism...
April 04, 2018
April 4, 50 Years Out
Fifty years. Fifty years since the shot rang out. Since Martin Luther King Jr. was...
April 03, 2018
4 Questions to Answer Before You Decide on a College
Are you (or your child) trying to decide where to go for college? Chris suggests...
April 02, 2018
Dating By Apocalypse
When I write about the canonical gospels, as I often do, I follow a commonly...
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March 30, 2018
Porn and the American Presidency
In 1976, many evangelical supporters of Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter were disillusioned when the presidential...
March 30, 2018
Walking on the Water, Revisited
I am here expanding a column I posted on this site back in 2014. I...
March 29, 2018
Play Ball! On Christianity and Baseball in American History
On this rare occasion that major league baseball opens its season on Maundy Thursday, Chris...
March 29, 2018
Mormon Priesthoods
"Mary A. young admited into the hiest orderer Preasthood," Brigham Young wrote in his diary...
March 28, 2018
The Feminisms of Madeline L’Engle and Betty Friedan
Though she did not overtly situate her work within feminist conversations, L’Engle nonetheless points toward...
March 27, 2018
Christian Responses to the Eugenics Movement
In the 1920s eugenics was controversial but in the mainstream of American society — with...
March 26, 2018
Can Surrogacy Be a Christian Ministry?
Recently Christianity Today offered Kate Shellnutt’s report of a new baby boom: more evangelical women...
March 23, 2018
The Church in the Mainstream
I have been posting about the years around 200 as marking a decisive, formative, moment...
March 22, 2018
Defining Evangelicalism and the Problem of Whiteness
Do you approve of the way Trump is handling his job as President? If you’re...
March 21, 2018
Paul Interrupted: A Medieval Perspective
Just a few years ago, my entire family (parents, siblings, aunts, and my grandfather) attended...
March 20, 2018
The Bishop’s Boys: Religion and the Wright Brothers
About a month after my editor first mentioned the name of Charles Lindbergh to me,...
March 19, 2018
The Church of Many Voices
As I study the early history of Christianity, I become ever more interested by one...
March 16, 2018
On Gratitude and the Christian Liberal Arts
Chris shares his gratitude for the students, parents, and colleagues who make possible his work.
March 16, 2018
Mary Magdalene’s Myth: The Latest Chapter
Not having seen the big production new film of Mary Magdalene (Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara,...
March 15, 2018
John the Baptist’s Head
From the Anxious Bench archives: When I ask students to read and generate questions about the Gospel...
March 14, 2018
A Wrinkle in Time and the Gospel of the Third Way
If Madeleine L’Engle’s portrayal of communism as the evil "other" was not unusual, her antidote...
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