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January 2025

January 14, 2025
David Blight, the eminent Civil War historian, begins every class he teaches in the same...
January 13, 2025
I hope I might be forgiven for using this post to make known two publications...
January 11, 2025
When I first was asked to be the editor of the Anxious Bench, I was...
January 09, 2025
After the recent horrors in New Orleans, we have heard a huge amount about lone...
January 07, 2025
For me, the days off around the holidays traditionally include many things: more baked goods...
January 03, 2025
It’s the beginning of the year and all over social media the pros and cons...
January 02, 2025
In the wave of obituaries for Jimmy Carter, the common theme is that as president,...

December 2024

December 26, 2024
Over the holiday, you might find some down time to listen to podcasts. If so,...
December 25, 2024
Two years ago, late December 2022, I visited Bethlehem for the Christmas season. By coincidence,...
December 24, 2024
For the past hundred years, the night before Christmas has not only been the occasion...
December 23, 2024
Today is December 23: the last day to get overnight delivery for presents to arrive...
December 20, 2024
For my post this month, I wanted to revisit my Christmas post from last December....
December 19, 2024
I have a literary discovery to report, and I think I can claim a first...
December 18, 2024
The people who were making these arguments for colorblind individualism in the late 1960s and...
December 17, 2024
My childhood experience of Christmas morning, like most, was marked by certain traditions. My siblings...
December 13, 2024
I am writing this post on December 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe,...
December 12, 2024
I have posted quite often here on the theme of American empire throughout history, and...
December 11, 2024
I decided to experiment a little bit this month by writing a letter addressed to...
December 09, 2024
Arguably the greatest benefit of being a scholar at a Christian university is the opportunity...
December 08, 2024
The past couple years I have provided a round-up of my favorite reads (see here...
December 05, 2024
We know so little about women in history, including the Bible. And yet they are...
December 05, 2024
Empires are a very hot issue in historical scholarship right now, and missions and missionaries...
December 03, 2024
The 1991 Christmas standard “Mary Did You Know” was an oft-repeated anthem for many of...

November 2024

November 28, 2024
During the 1980s, Central America was the setting for brutal revolutions and civil wars that...
November 27, 2024
Just weeks after the 2024 election, I discussed Kristin Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne...
November 26, 2024
A Review of Jerome E. Copulsky’s American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order (Yale University...
November 25, 2024
  Over the past decade, an interest in the transpacific has transformed scholarship on American...
November 22, 2024
*Note: This post has been slightly updated and expanded by the author for clarity.   ...
November 21, 2024
My current work concerns the relationship between empires and the making and development of religion....
November 19, 2024
In my first semester of grad school, I took a Latin reading seminar. Surprisingly, we...
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