Two recent posts over at the Anxious Bench are intimately, if accidentally, connected. The first of these is by Philip Jenkins, whose wide-ranging curiosity leads him in fascinating directions. He’s been retracing his steps, reviewing some of the disparate topics he has researched, studied, and published on throughout his career and the sometimes surprising connections among them. Jenkins’ latest post in this personal history — “To What Green Altar?” — covers his work researching the Satanic Panic of the 1980s... Read more