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February 2013

February 28, 2013
As a corollary to my current interest in the Latter-day Saint understanding of Jesus, I've...
February 27, 2013
NOTE:  A shorter version of this post appeared yesterday at The Way of Improvement Leads...
February 26, 2013
The latest front in the Baptist battle over Calvinism and Arminianism has opened at Louisiana...
February 25, 2013
Attending a church service can be a sobering experience, and not necessarily for anything said...
February 24, 2013
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Luther Spoehr reviews Robert Sullivan,...
February 22, 2013
Material objects can evoke distant periods of history far more powerfully than even the greatest...
February 21, 2013
Especially because my colleague Thomas Kidd and I both like the genre of biography, we've...
February 20, 2013
Those who of you who thought I had gone off the deep end with last...
February 19, 2013
A remarkable political asylum case has raised questions about whether the U.S. government should defend...
February 18, 2013
This week The New York Times noted a new landmark in the transformation of parenthood. ...
February 15, 2013
We have just entered the season of Lent. Thinking about the history of this time...
February 14, 2013
A few months ago, I went to Harper's Ferry with my wife and daughter. It's...
February 13, 2013
Political conservatives are singing the praises of Dr. Ben Carson's speech last week at the...
February 12, 2013
As I discussed in my post "Puritans: The Original Republicans?", few historians today remain interested...
February 11, 2013
Through the years, I have written a good deal about the globalization of Christianity in...
February 10, 2013
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Sean Wilentz reviews Oliver Stone...
February 08, 2013
I recently suggested that studying the history of the so-called  “Dark Ages” gives a wonderful...
February 07, 2013
A few months ago, our Thomas Kidd praised Catherine Brekus's just-released Sarah Osborn's World as...
February 06, 2013
Guest post from Miles S. Mullin II, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's J. Dalton Havard School for...
February 05, 2013
Over at the Old Life website, our friend D.G. Hart has a piece, "Between Whitefield and...
February 04, 2013
If Alexis de Tocqueville were alive today to witness the churning unrest and revolutions sweeping...
February 01, 2013
As a Cambridge undergraduate in the 1970s, my emphasis (major) was in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and...
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