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October 2023

October 03, 2023
This post is part of a series at the Anxious Bench on ‘Contested Ideas in...
October 01, 2023
Last month I had the privilege of talking with Andrew Whitehead, Associate Professor of Sociology...

September 2023

September 29, 2023
by Janine Giordano Drake If you peruse the new books section of Christian book catalogs...
September 27, 2023
Can we create a perfect world? That was the title of a talk I gave...
September 26, 2023
John Piper, the Minnesota-based Baptist pastor who has popularized Jonathan Edwards’s Calvinist theology for a...
September 25, 2023
  The past two weeks—the opening days of National Hispanic Heritage Month—have been marked by...
September 21, 2023
Historians sometimes have the bad habit of assuming that laws and edicts passed in bygone...
September 20, 2023
It’s a fascinating and lovely and disturbing book, and it made me think hard about...
September 19, 2023
Enduring violence has long been part of the Christian story—Stephen was stoned (Acts 7:54-60), Paul...
September 18, 2023
Hi! I am a cultural sociologist on a tour of Texas Megachurches. Check out my...
September 15, 2023
The stories of Christian heroes have long inspired Christian children, including my own. Saint stories...
September 14, 2023
I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book, A Storm of Images:...
September 13, 2023
If you happen to be a Christian in America right now, I have good news...
September 12, 2023
Antonio the Negro arrived in Virginia in 1621, which means he witnessed the devastating attacks...
September 08, 2023
In the 1980s when I was growing up as a pastor’s daughter in a conservative...
September 07, 2023
I want to announce and celebrate the publication of a really valuable new book, and...
September 05, 2023
Summer for professors often means reworking classes or developing new courses, along with doing our...
September 04, 2023
This Labor Day, I had the joy of talking with Dr. Heath Carter, Associate Professor...

August 2023

August 31, 2023
Today we welcome Jared Stacy back to the Anxious Bench. Stacy is a PhD candidate...
August 30, 2023
Today we welcome Dr. Michel Sun Lee, an Assistant Professor of History and Political Studies...
August 29, 2023
Today we welcome Holly Berkley Fletcher to the Anxious Bench. Dr. Fletcher is an American historian...
August 28, 2023
(Before I begin, I'd like to note that my last article has proven prescient: in...
August 23, 2023
One of the privileges of writing for the Anxious Bench is that when I read...
August 22, 2023
If you ask the average educated American Christian what new academic idea presented the greatest...
August 21, 2023
  While assisted reproductive technology has made it possible for many people to welcome children...
August 18, 2023
Have you heard the one about Bernard of Clairvaux, the peasant, and the horse? The...
August 17, 2023
I have a long-standing admiration for the very influential scholar Ronald L. Inglehart. A couple...
August 16, 2023
George Marsden explains that Jonathan Edwards preached other sermons.
August 15, 2023
Icons, pictures, and mosaics of the “Three Holy Hierarchs”, also called “the Cappadocians”, are common...
August 14, 2023
I have been at work on a book project, Modern Christian Theology: An Intellectual History,...
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