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Do Evangelicals Share a Common Story?
Is evangelical identity based on a shared story, a religious version of a national narrative?
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How evangelical individualism justifies the use of torture
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Evangelicals on Campus
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With evangelicals facing mounting evidence of decline, Chris suggests four steps for renewal, drawn from...
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The Chance of Salvation
Lincoln Mullen is the author of the recently published The Chance of Salvation: A History...
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Evangelical Silence and Trump: A Reformation Irony
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Christian Colleges, Sexuality, and “Cultural Waterloo”
I don’t know Carl Trueman or Rod Dreher, but I do know many people who...
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Who has the power to recalibrate the “Evangelical Paradigm”?
Today we welcome Janine Giordano Drake to the Anxious Bench. Janine is Assistant Professor of History...
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Prosperity Gospel Apocalypse: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s PTL Empire
The Bakker’s had become proponents of the prosperity gospel, a message that fit the 1980s...
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George McGovern and the Religious Left
I'm pleased to post this interview with Mark Lempke, who just published the terrific book...
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Recalibrating the “Evangelical Paradigm”
A growing body of evidence points to a pitched battle between evangelical and churchly Protestants...
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4 Reasons Why John Wesley Opposed the American Revolution
American Christians invoke John Wesley on all manner of subjects including sanctification, the sacraments, and...
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I found myself thinking about complementarianism while watching the new Wonder Woman movie.
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This Thai Is Not Like the Others
My research on the antitrafficking movement in Thailand primarily tracked American Christian networks. As I...
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A Farang Scholar in Thailand
It’s good to be back at the Anxious Bench after a spring semester hiatus. As...
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Lysa TerKeurst, Bible Gateway, and Fides ex Auditu: the Biblical Heart of Medieval Faith
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Are we at the end of one era in the history of evangelicalism and the...
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The End of American Evangelicalism
Amid the semester's end, the following is adapted and slightly updated from the Anxious Bench archives... One...
May 04, 2017
Fairness for All: A Call for Culture Peacemakers?
For nearly half a century, American Christians have, to greater and lesser degrees, embraced the...
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Are Women Human in Christian Academia?
Recently, Karen Swallow Prior spoke out against the "Billy Graham rule"--married men distancing themselves from...
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Defining Evangelicalism: Part 1,242…
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Still Searching for Christian America
“At times of crisis it is a natural human reaction to turn to the past...
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December 01, 2016
The Crisis of Corporate Evangelicalism (Part 7 – a glimpse at the future?)
What does the future hold for corporate evangelicalism?
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Around eighteen years ago, my wife and I drove out into the countryside beyond Louisville...
November 03, 2016
The Crisis of Corporate Evangelicalism (Part 6 – Constructing Modern Evangelicalism)
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