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History, Memory, and Relevance: Reflections on Christian Feminism Today
Last week I attended the biennial Christian Feminism Today conference, an organization better known among...
June 29, 2016
Gender and the Trinity: A Medieval Perspective
Very recently, on June 16, Christianity Today published the article Gender and the Trinity: From Proxy...
June 28, 2016
What It Means to Say “I’m a Pietist” in 2016
What it means to be a Pietist today — and why that ethos might help...
June 27, 2016
Two Sides of One Coin? Mapping Buddhist and Christian Decline
Although it’s a world religion, in a sense it is multiply cut off from its...
June 24, 2016
This Orient Isle
Back in February, I posted about the tight alliance that bound (Protestant) Elizabethan England with...
June 23, 2016
ratemydeity.com
Review sites protect us from the hotel that serves rubbery scrambled eggs as its "free...
June 22, 2016
Moving Beyond “When Helping Hurts”
This guest post comes from Steve Offutt, a professor of development studies at Asbury Theological...
June 21, 2016
Religious Freedom: The Contested Core of Baptist Identity
Like mosques today, school prayer once caused Baptists to debate religious freedom
June 20, 2016
Summer Reading List of American Protestant History
Interested in the history of American Protestantism? A few summer reading suggestions...
June 17, 2016
More on Publishing and Presses
I recently posted about the prestige of different publishers, and the vast difference that makes...
June 16, 2016
The Crisis of Corporate Evangelicalism (Part 1)
Part 1: who are the “corporate evangelicals?” These have been banner days for those...
June 15, 2016
Surviving Rejection on the Academic Job Market
I still remember checking my watch and thinking vaguely about what I would eat for...
June 14, 2016
How Can Christians Love Their LGBT Neighbors? Start by Learning Their History
How studying LGBT history is a way of loving our neighbors in the wake of...
June 14, 2016
British Christians Debate “Brexit”
In nine days British voters will determine if their country remains a member of the European Union, as...
June 13, 2016
The Hierarchy of Presses
A learned friend once made an excellent point, which sounds like a joke but is...
June 10, 2016
The Byzantine Dark Ages
In my last post, I urged the use of the unpopular term “Dark Age” as...
June 09, 2016
The Future of American Evangelicalism
Nearly twenty years ago, Christian Smith assessed American evangelicalism as "embattled but thriving." Nowadays, just...
June 08, 2016
The Limits of a Narrow Evangelical Advocacy
Today's guest post comes from David Bronkema, Associate Professor of International Development at Eastern University...
June 07, 2016
Changes at the Bench
The Anxious Bench began its life as a blog some four years ago. Since then, we've published...
June 06, 2016
“What Men Foolishly Bring on Themselves”: Why You Should Vote for Someone Good
Samuel Willard (1640-1707), minister at Boston’s Third Church—“Old South”--offered a heady dose of Puritan political...
June 03, 2016
Bringing Back the Dark Ages
I am about to say something really contentious and controversial: Dark Ages happen, and I...
June 02, 2016
A Punch in the Gut
Rupert Neudeck died earlier this week at the age of seventy-seven. Mostly unknown in the...
June 01, 2016
Silenced Women–Modern Lessons from an Ancient Murder
In the second century A.D., the pregnant wife of a prosperous Greek politician died from...
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