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June 2019
June 25, 2019
To this point it’s primarily been mainline denominations like the United Methodist Church and Anabaptist groups...
June 24, 2019
Through writing about church history in many different eras, I have acquired a long standing...
June 23, 2019
I am so pleased to welcome Dr. Melody Maxwell to the Anxious Bench today. Melody's...
June 22, 2019
In 1815, John Quincy Adams purchased six small busts of classical philosophers and poets: Cicero,...
June 21, 2019
Translation is a bugbear of mine. In many types of literature, I don’t worry too...
June 20, 2019
I am used to thinking of the New England colonies as commonwealths, as what Michael...
June 19, 2019
Chuck Redfern: "It’s time for evangelical myth busting. I say that as the not-so-secret secret...
June 18, 2019
Just last week I found myself at the corner of Burrard Street and Nelson Street...
June 17, 2019
For a few years now, Catholic sisters and religiously unaffiliated young-ish people have been finding...
June 15, 2019
The U.S. Constitution mandates a decennial census, used to allocate representatives in the House and...
June 14, 2019
No worthwhile account of American history - or of its religious history - can fail...
June 13, 2019
Today we welcome Josh Parks to the Anxious Bench. A recent graduate of Calvin College...
June 12, 2019
On Sunday, June 2, the world buried Rachel Held Evans. She was 37 years old...
June 11, 2019
I am so pleased to introduce you to my Baylor colleague, Dr. Andrea Turpin. Andrea...
June 10, 2019
I’m wondering when it is possible to argue from silence when reading historical sources, and...
June 07, 2019
This coming Sunday marks the feast of Pentecost. In connection with that, I am posting...
June 06, 2019
Last week, David Garrow published his analysis of a cache of FBI notes about its...
June 05, 2019
David Swartz interviews David King on his new book about World Vision
June 04, 2019
Can evangelicalism be "kinder and gentler"? Chris profiles a prototypical figure of irenic evangelicalism: Carl...
June 03, 2019
Almost exactly 30 years ago in June of 1989, I traveled to Europe for the...
May 2019
May 31, 2019
Christians are required to believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the third...
May 30, 2019
Yesterday, the trial began for Dr. Scott Warren, a geographer and volunteer with the...
May 29, 2019
Like what you've read from us on Anxious Bench? Here's where you can find us...
May 29, 2019
In fifteenth-century England, a (probably Franciscan) friar lived on the east coast near the cathedral...
May 28, 2019
Chris considers what fighting in NHL hockey has to do with the future of evangelicalism.
May 27, 2019
I have been posting a lot in recent weeks on Christ’s Resurrection, a topic that...
May 25, 2019
Today we are so pleased to welcome Otis Pickett, an Assistant Professor of History at...
May 24, 2019
I have a literary discovery to report, and I think I can claim a first...
May 23, 2019
A few weeks ago, I suggested that the "myth" of puritan intolerance is "not very...
May 22, 2019
David Swartz interviews David Kirkpatrick about his new book on the Latin American evangelical left.
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