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History never looks like history when you are living through it. John W. Gardner I...

  It’s December, the month for feasting on latkes and Buche de Noel, lighting menorahs...

Today we welcome Regina Wenger to the Anxious Bench. Regina is a doctoral student in...

Historians often say that they study the past "as it actually happened." But they can't...

The Washington Post recently ran a story with stunning implications for the history of Christian...

On the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, I am thinking about a writer whose reputation has...

At this fleeting moment of civil (in two senses of the word) religion while Americans...

Wrestling with my Anabaptist heritage during a recent trip to Germany

Reading a new collection of sermons by Fleming Rutledge got Chris thinking about the implications...

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, Thomas Jefferson famously...

The season of Advent begins this year on Sunday, December 2. I am adapting here...

Today we welcome George Marsden back to the Anxious Bench. One of the preeminent historians...

It is the most nerve-wracking time of the year. PhD hopefuls have uploaded finely-honed applications...

The story of Hans Nielsen Hauge, the peasant-turned-lay preacher who revived Norwegian Christianity, challenged conventional...

Sadly, because of the untowardly symbiotic relationship between Trump and the media covering him, many...

Why Christ the King Sunday is a religious legacy of World War I and its...

I have been writing about the cultural and spiritual impact of the First World War,...

From the Anxious Bench archives... In Augustine's Confessions, at the end of a discussion of...

And how is it that my own children now celebrate Thanksgiving in their Jessamine County...

Guest blogger Karen Johnson reflects on the role of empathy, disgust, and lament in the...

I have written about the apocalyptic atmosphere that was so much in evidence in 1918,...

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...