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March 2023

March 27, 2023
The number of religiously unaffiliated people has risen significantly over the past few decades, a...
March 24, 2023
Occasionally when I speak and write on race, someone will ask what I think about...
March 23, 2023
A couple of recent encounters have reshaped my understandings of the ancient world, and specifically...
March 22, 2023
On the demography of global Christianity
March 21, 2023
Last week I stood in the early Christian catacombs. Just feet below some of the...
March 20, 2023
In my last post, I argued that the histories of the U.S. Black Church and...
March 17, 2023
“Los San Patricios” (Pino Cacucci, 2015) “Have you heard of the San Patricios?” a student...
March 16, 2023
I have just read a very good book that throws major new light on the...
March 15, 2023
In a gloomy prison about 1,820 years ago, a young nursing mother, desperately missing her...
March 14, 2023
On the 10th of February, 1675/6, natives allied with the Wampanoag leader, King Philip (Metacom),...
March 13, 2023
It’s been just over a year since I found my beloved colleague of 20 years...
March 09, 2023
The fact that the film Jesus Revolution was released at virtually the same time as...
March 08, 2023
At my church, Mosaic Waco, my co-pastor, Slim, and I are preaching through the book...
March 07, 2023
Since 1987, March has been recognized as Women’s History Month in the United States. Tomorrow,...
March 06, 2023
We are back with another installment!  Last month, I wrote about Eerdman’s Press’ new  People...
March 03, 2023
The First Peoples (Natives) viewed their geography as a space of spiritual interconnection between ecology...
March 02, 2023
The revival at Asbury University has been attracting intense excitement in the evangelical world, and...
March 01, 2023
Over Christmas break, I had the incredible privilege of visiting the Middle East for the...

February 2023

February 28, 2023
A Review of Collin Hansen's Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation (Zondervan, 2023) In a world...
February 27, 2023
  Last month a college student at Indiana University Bloomington was stabbed in the face...
February 24, 2023
What stops racial violence? I won’t answer that question fully here (I’ve got a book...
February 23, 2023
I just published the book He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence: The Many...
February 22, 2023
A visual sociologist chronicles the Asbury Revival
February 21, 2023
In her Women and Power: A Manifesto, historian and bestselling author of SPQR Mary Beard explains...
February 20, 2023
As an immigrant and Afro-Brazilian historian with a profound interest in the history of Christianity...
February 17, 2023
May my body be buried in the Church of San Gabriel in the said city...
February 16, 2023
This is about a specific piece of art that powerfully illustrates the influence and reception...
February 15, 2023
The history of women’s rights in the U.S. over the past century is often presented...
February 14, 2023
Fisk University is a private, historically black university, founded in 1866 and located in Nashville,...
February 13, 2023
It’s a question that understandably vexes Latter Day Saints, but it lies behind an important...
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