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I have posted a lot on the First World War era, and in some literary...

Nearly forty years ago, a minister, a rabbi, and two priests went to the White...

I want to tell you two stories. The first one is really disturbing, so prepare...

Now attending a Lutheran church, Chris has been wondering just how permeable the boundary is...

We have heard so much recently about the end of the First World War in...

On this 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Chris reflects on the...

Did the First World War end too soon? At first sight, such a question might...

This is something nobody would expect from me, namely a totally objective and non-partisan comment...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced that the Hill Cumorah Pageant will...

As Watergate smolders, a Bible college student proposes an evangelical political party.

While the Evangelical Free Church no longer ordains women, two of its founders celebrated the...

“A little Puritanism would help us all.” This striking recommendation comes from Commonweal magazine’s Paul...

Normally, I’d be overjoyed to receive a bunch of writing commissions from prestigious outlets like...

This past weekend, a man entered a Pittsburgh synagogue and massacred 11 people gathered for...

We carved pumpkins again this year. I still had to clean out the insides, but...

On the complicated religious history of the space race: while NASA was "no bastion of...

Somewhere over the past twenty years or so, a once-key concept in American history, and...

In the wake of yesterday's mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, Chris spent Reformation Sunday...

We are presently commemorating the centennial of the end of the First World War, and...

A blog post sometimes serves as a forum to try out an idea that is...

David Swartz interviews Melani McAlister about her new book

Like his hero Charles Lindbergh, astronaut Neil Armstrong defied conventional categories of religious belief and...

For pleasure reading, I have lately been dipping into James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson....

I recently described the problems that occur in making and understanding social statistics. Now I...

Throughout U.S. history, “public charge” rules have been a powerful instrument of excluding immigrants on...

The same afternoon Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court, one of my friends sent...

Historians often celebrate the value of empathy. But a recent talk about sexual abuse in...

Statistics interpret the world we see, and they make the world we know. When we...

I write a lot about alternative non-canonical scriptures, and the diverse Christianities they represent. One...

I do not attend very many conferences. There are several reasons for this. Mostly, I...