At the end of Freedom Summer 1971, John Perkins called it “the biggest failure in Voice of Calvary history.” Read more
At the end of Freedom Summer 1971, John Perkins called it “the biggest failure in Voice of Calvary history.” Read more
Imagine this scenario: a Person of Prominence who is a devout Christian is praying. This Person of Prominence is a community leader who provides important resources, forms of support, and opportunities that people need and want. There are other people, people who are also Christian, who gather with this Person of Prominence and pray with him, often in highly visible ways. And there are still other people who are present in the community and who do not identify with or... Read more
Crisis pregnancies have profound human costs. There are life-changing consequences for women who find themselves pregnant with a child they did not anticipate and may not feel equipped to care for. Roe v. Wade suggested one way to manage those costs. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization suggested another way. Today, in the immediate aftermath of the Dobbs decision, my Twitter feed has been filled with partisans on both sides of the abortion debate expressing either outrage or jubilation at... Read more
I am excited to welcome to the Anxious Bench for today’s guest post Samuel L. Young (PhD, Baylor University), a postdoctoral teaching fellow for Baylor’s Department of History. Young’s dissertation, “‘Saint of the Republic’: Martin Luther, Myth, and National Identity in Antebellum America” (May 2022), explores how early Americans used the long-deceased sixteenth-century German reformer to articulate what it meant to be a citizen of the new nation. Young was the 2021 recipient of the Sidney E. Mead Prize from... Read more
Our blogmeister says farewell after six years and nearly 400 posts at The Anxious Bench. Read more
Every year, it seems, at least one new English Bible translation appears. Some make a big splash and start controversies (e.g., the TNIV and the ESV). Others arrive more quietly, but their sheer number still raises this question from church-goers and Bible readers: what is the best translation to use? And a related question: do we even need more English translations of the Bible? Prompting my reflections on these questions is this year’s new kid on the block, the FNV... Read more
I usually wait until the end of June to post a mid-year report on what’s been most popular at The Anxious Bench. For reasons I’ll explain next week, I’m going to move up that update to today. Without further ado, here are our ten most-read posts thus far into 2022, plus the most popular posts from each contributor and a few suggestions of my own for posts that deserve a second look. The Anxious Bench Top 10 for the First... Read more