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Pence's invitation to speak at Taylor University's commencement reveals an evangelical populism that has been...

In part because the gospel accounts have so little to say about Holy Saturday, in...

The final chapter of John’s gospel reports the risen Christ meeting his disciples at the...

On Sunday, Pete Buttigieg made it official. He’s running for president, because he wants “to...

As Christians prepare for Good Friday, Chris considers how the Crucifixion helped Europeans make meaning...

"a fire burnt the whole parish of St. Alkmund's starting at daybreak on the eve...

In this Easter season, I will be thinking a lot about coal fires, anthrax, and...

I have a literary dilemma. I want to rave about a piece of writing –...

"American religious history is women's history," Ann Braude argued in an essay published nearly two...

Prayers shaping politics--or politics shaping prayer?

Chris recommends an article surveying the religious history of the early Internet: both how Christian...

1965 represents a major turning point in American religious history. The Immigration and Nationality Act...

A passage in the Alexandrian writer Philo casts a curious light on Christian origins, and...

Last month marked the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the four-month, student-led strike at...

Cancer is terrible. It steals life. We have so many more treatment options available now...

Founder of an intentional, interracial Christian community called Koinonia Farm, Clarence Jordan both challenged Southern...

Just suppose you had to choose the single motion picture that dealt most seriously and...

The idea for this post came from my genuine surprise at reading a passage by...

  Many journalists and scholars snickered a bit last year when President Russell M. Nelson...

The second in a two-part series on Christabel Pankhurst, a fundamentalist feminist

Why should scholars take the time to blog or podcast, knowing that they're likely to...

The New York Times recently profiled Jonathan Cahn, celebrity New Jersey pastor who interprets the Bible to explain—nay, predict—signs...

However strange this may sound, I am ever more struck by the central and continuing...

Today we welcome Mary Li Ma to the Anxious Bench. A research scholar, mission consultant,...

I usually never read comments on my blogs, much less respond to them. But one...

What should we make of the atrocities committed by American soldiers against Japanese, Italian, and...

For multiple reasons, I am not a particular fan of Bill Clinton. But one speech...

ADDENDUM: I must report a ghastly synchronicity. This post concerns a historical theme that is...

From the Anxious Bench archives: When I ask students to read and generate questions about the Gospel...

How an activist for suffrage converted to conservative Christian faith