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How The American Empire Created Prophets and Messiahs
I have been working on the religious dimensions of American empire, and particularly some of...
July 24, 2024
What 3 Conservative Denominations Decided About Women
This summer three theologically conservative Protestant denominations held their annual conventions. All three made news...
July 23, 2024
The Catholic Conversion of J. D. Vance
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July 22, 2024
The ’24 Election Has Changed. Here’s What We Need To Do Now.
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Pastors Complaining About Church Attendance: A Tradition
I’m old enough to remember going to Sunday evening services at my Baptist church growing...
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Kingdoms Of This World
I’m delighted to announce the publication of my new book, Kingdoms of This World: How...
July 17, 2024
Heroes and Villains: Gendered Discourses of Trafficking
Whatever else might be true of the gendered portrayals in humanitarian rescue narratives, it seems...
July 16, 2024
Mothers of the Church: Faltonia Betitia Proba
In 362, Emperor Julian effectively banned Christians from teaching pagan texts, such as Homer’s Iliad...
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American Empire and American Religion
I have been working on the topic of empires and their religious dimensions, and my...
July 10, 2024
Jürgen Moltmann (1926-2024): A (Hopeful) Reflection
"People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point,...
July 09, 2024
It’s a Big Country: Thoughts on America’s Masculinity Crisis
This is my first piece as a regular columnist for the Anxious Bench, and I'm...
July 08, 2024
The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom?
Almost anything by Robert Wilken is worth reading. I have benefitted immensely from his The...
July 05, 2024
Does Being Modern Impoverish Worship?
I was recently on a trip where we visited many Buddhist and Hindu temples. None...
July 04, 2024
Israel, Protest, and a Democratic Party Meltdown?
A vast amount of coverage presently discusses the condition of Joe Biden and his likely...
July 02, 2024
Exvangelicals and Mystery Plays
Welcome back to the Anxious Bench Dr. Katherine Cooper Wyma! Dr. Wyma is an Associate...
July 01, 2024
The PCA General Assembly & Lament
Last month, I traveled to Richmond for the Presbyterian Church in America’s General Assembly. Otis...
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The Printed Sources of Southern Sacred Song
A staggering array of human hands across continents and generations created the tradition of sacred...
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Who Are You Calling Palutian? On Writing Christian History
Around the year 200, Bishop Palut was an important leader of the church in Syria....
June 26, 2024
The Politicization of Evangelical Surfer Bethany Hamilton
I am delighted to share this summer-themed guest post on religion and celebrity in the...
June 25, 2024
Abortion and the Catholic Church in the 1976 Election
The presidential election of 1976 presented the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) with a...
June 24, 2024
No, the Humanity of Migrants Is Not a Joke
Over the weekend, while speaking to an audience of American evangelicals associated with the...
June 21, 2024
Adams, MacArthur and Evangelical Denial of Mental Illness
On the eve of mental health awareness month, a clip of John MacArthur made its...
June 20, 2024
Sea Peoples, Goths, and Barbarians
If you study the historical background of the Old Testament, you will very soon come...
June 19, 2024
Princesses and Policemen: Discourses of Human Trafficking
The stories they tell follow a formula that has been produced, reproduced, and adapted by...
June 18, 2024
Do Early Christians Hate the Body?
“Didn’t Augustine have a weird theology of sex?” This question was posed to me by...
June 17, 2024
On Young Evangelicalism’s Diverse Worship Leaders
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Going Home: Looking to the Past to Move Forward
I nosed my Camry slowly towards the Palos Verdes Peninsula on a bright afternoon this...
June 13, 2024
Constructing Social Problems: The Second Act?
I have been writing about the sequence of books I had published in an earlier...
June 12, 2024
Saluting the Translators
One of my first public posts ever declared my first experiences of reading literature from...
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The Danger of Silence About Gaza
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