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As prominent evangelical leaders gather this week at Wheaton, IL, to discuss how the Trump...

Today I am pleased to welcome Jonathan Root to The Anxious Bench. Jonathan Root is...

What a dismal headline for Holocaust Remembrance Day: Americans are forgetting the Holocaust. At least, that...

There is a widespread impression that the US mass media are deeply anti-Christian, and that...

In April 1968, Martin Luther King jr was assassinated in Memphis, and we have heard...

Matthew Bowman is a historian whose work ranges widely over the intersection of religion, politics,...

What Liberty University and the Red Letter Revival in Virginia can tell us about the...

We recently returned from Lynchburg, Virginia, home of Liberty University and the site of the...

Growing religious diversity, global conflicts that have a religious dimension, and the modern rise of...

My last post looked at arguments for the dating of the four canonical gospels as...

"Lord, I repent of ways I've been complicit in & contributed to misogyny & sexism...

Fifty years. Fifty years since the shot rang out. Since Martin Luther King Jr. was...

Are you (or your child) trying to decide where to go for college? Chris suggests...

When I write about the canonical gospels, as I often do, I follow a commonly...

In 1976, many evangelical supporters of Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter were disillusioned when the presidential...

I am here expanding a column I posted on this site back in 2014. I...

On this rare occasion that major league baseball opens its season on Maundy Thursday, Chris...

"Mary A. young admited into the hiest orderer Preasthood," Brigham Young wrote in his diary...

Though she did not overtly situate her work within feminist conversations, L’Engle nonetheless points toward...

In the 1920s eugenics was controversial but in the mainstream of American society — with...

Recently Christianity Today offered Kate Shellnutt’s report of a new baby boom: more evangelical women...

I have been posting about the years around 200 as marking a decisive, formative, moment...

Do you approve of the way Trump is handling his job as President? If you’re...

Just a few years ago, my entire family (parents, siblings, aunts, and my grandfather) attended...

About a month after my editor first mentioned the name of Charles Lindbergh to me,...

As I study the early history of Christianity, I become ever more interested by one...

Chris shares his gratitude for the students, parents, and colleagues who make possible his work.

Not having seen the big production new film of Mary Magdalene (Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara,...

From the Anxious Bench archives: When I ask students to read and generate questions about the Gospel...

If Madeleine L’Engle’s portrayal of communism as the evil "other" was not unusual, her antidote...