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August 2025

August 26, 2025
James Dobson's death last week marked the end of a particular era in conservative evangelical...
August 25, 2025
Reformed Evangelical Concerns About Comer Escalate Over a hot summer August weekend in 2025, evangelicals...
August 24, 2025
When I was in college, my Southern Baptist church back home went through a years-long...
August 21, 2025
I have been writing about the modern rediscovery of ancient Jewish and Christian scriptures, including...
August 20, 2025
 [This is the third part in a three-part series that delves into the story of...
August 19, 2025
Who Reads Scripture Better: Scholars or Disciples? Who reads the Scriptures better—Bart Ehrman or my...
August 15, 2025
“I pray and strive for this bell of peace to continue ringing until the last...
August 14, 2025
Some years back, I published a lot at this site on the general subject of...
August 13, 2025
I love to tell the story; 'tis pleasant to repeat what seems, each time I...
August 11, 2025
In June 2010 I was privileged to meet Dr. Daniel Williams through a mutual acquaintance...
August 08, 2025
  Thirty years ago a friend introduced my husband Tommy and I to the music...
August 07, 2025
In recent weeks, I have been writing extensively about the transformations that America experienced during...
August 05, 2025
As our guide walked with us out of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, he started...

July 2025

July 31, 2025
As I write about that amazing year of 1893, I have often used the language...
July 24, 2025
I recently blogged about the radical feminist theories in religion that emerged during that critical...
July 22, 2025
Much of the commentary about John MacArthur in the wake of his death last week...
July 21, 2025
Evangelical church camps found their ascendance in the twentieth century. The privilege of resort and...
July 18, 2025
The Scopes trial, one of the most famous court cases in United States history, was...
July 17, 2025
Have you ever used the words heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or masochistic? Or talked about sadomasochism?...
July 16, 2025
"The task of city design involves the vaster task of rebuilding our civilization." Lewis Mumford,...
July 15, 2025
For today's post, I'm going to focus a bit more on some of the theological...
July 11, 2025
Lynneth Miller Renberg’s discussion of archival silences and archival shouting in Listening to Archival Silence:...
July 10, 2025
In 1893, Congregationalist minister Josiah Strong (1847-1916) was a leading figure in the Social Gospel...
July 09, 2025
Last month's post I briefly discussed the topic of summer reading. Before that post, I...
July 04, 2025
We love a nice round number—and 250 years since the U.S. War of Independence began...
July 03, 2025
Dealing as it does in broadly national and patriotic themes, I think the following post...
July 01, 2025
On a recent trip to Turkey and Greece, where I loved the churches, mosques, and...

June 2025

June 26, 2025
In my current project on the early 1890s, I have written a good deal about...
June 24, 2025
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade three years ago today in the case...
June 23, 2025
Apparently, the 12-day War is ending, all thanks to Trump's God-gilded realpolitik. What do I...
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