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August 2023

August 14, 2023
I have been at work on a book project, Modern Christian Theology: An Intellectual History,...
August 11, 2023
Perspiration, gathering into rivulets, slid into the folds of my clothing as I gazed at...
August 10, 2023
Do you remember the Star Child? If I were to choose the single fictional work...
August 09, 2023
In the wake of WWI, a brilliant woman in search of an income found herself...
August 08, 2023
A perennial challenge for historians, who are Christians, is the challenge of finding acceptance and...
August 07, 2023
Everyone’s life is a Venn diagram of overlapping identities and roles. In my case, I...
August 03, 2023
My husband Tommy just turned fifty. For the last 5 years he has planned to...
August 03, 2023
I am not sure how much people read Mark Twain these days, but one work...
August 02, 2023
This past week, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation establishing the new Emmett Till and...
August 01, 2023
Today's post is from a guest contributor, my colleague Dr. Katherine Cooper Wyma. Dr. Wyma...

July 2023

July 31, 2023
It has been just over a year since Charles Marsh’s memoir Evangelical Anxiety was published....
July 28, 2023
We have the pleasure of inviting Dr. Paul Gutacker to the Anxious Bench today. Gutacker...
July 27, 2023
Last time I wrote about the English novelist Rose Macaulay (1881-1958), arguing that she was...
July 26, 2023
One sunny afternoon in Germany, I found myself in need of a restroom. And I...
July 25, 2023
Next week marks the 100-year anniversary of the death of the first Baptist president of...
July 24, 2023
  Friendship, family, and faith: these are central themes in Sweet Magnolias, the popular Netflix...
July 21, 2023
*Author's note: A previous version of this post mistakenly identified Basil the Elder as the...
July 20, 2023
Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was an English author whom I used to regard as a very...
July 19, 2023
J. Edgar Hoover. Richard Nixon. Donald Trump. Roger Stone. History may not repeat itself. But...
July 18, 2023
When someone makes the mistake of asking what I do for a living, I typically...
July 17, 2023
On the morning of July 2nd, I scanned my wardrobe for something red or white...
July 14, 2023
St. Mary’s Basilica in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places...
July 13, 2023
This post has two related themes. It is about how the media systematically misunderstand and...
July 12, 2023
On Sunday, July 2, 2023, we attended service for the last time in our beloved...
July 11, 2023
Tumultuous times of transition in the academic, evangelical, political, and social spheres have brought evangelical...
July 07, 2023
There’s an old saying that political battles in the United States are first fought in...
July 06, 2023
I recently posted about the critical importance of the Caribbean dimension in American history. The...
July 05, 2023
This is now the first question that I ask whenever I enter into a conversation...
July 04, 2023
For those of us who are American, today is the Fourth of July: a day...
July 03, 2023
On Thursday June 29, the Supreme Court ruled against affirmative action in college admissions in...
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