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February 2023

February 10, 2023
Everyone has their favorite holiday, season, or time of year. I love spring. I love...
February 09, 2023
John Maiden is a very good British scholar, whose new book strikes me as really...
February 08, 2023
In the wake of the murder of Tyre Nichols and the continuing waves of violence...
February 07, 2023
In one of my classes this spring, my students are reading one of the books...
February 06, 2023
Last month, Eerdman’s Press published People Get Ready: Twelve Jesus-Haunted Misfits, Malcontents, and Dreamers in...
February 02, 2023
"Well done, thou good and faithful slave!" That is certainly not a common rendering of...
February 01, 2023
Today we welcome a guest contribution from Michael Baysa. Baysa is a Ph.D. Candidate in...

January 2023

January 31, 2023
Today we welcome a guest contribution from John T. Lowe, Ph.D.. Lowe teaches American History...
January 30, 2023
Today we welcome back Allie Roberts as a guest contributor to the Anxious Bench. Roberts...
January 27, 2023
Today we have the pleasure of welcoming James C. Ungureanu (PhD, University of Queensland) as...
January 26, 2023
A recent post at this site concerned the history of American slavery, and like many...
January 25, 2023
We commonly assume that American Protestants haven't ever cared much about church history. Paul Gutacker's...
January 24, 2023
This week, the most controversial Supreme Court decision of modern times, Roe v. Wade, reached...
January 23, 2023
The fastest growing racial demographic group in the US is people who are mixed race....
January 20, 2023
A year ago, I spoke at Eastern Nazarene College to celebrate Martin Luther King’s legacy....
January 19, 2023
Over the past couple of centuries, scholars have devoted a lot of attention to understanding...
January 18, 2023
Today, Europe is a predominantly secular continent, but that is not how American evangelicals perceived...
January 17, 2023
Nine years ago, I was reading applications for our PhD program at Baylor History. My...
January 16, 2023
On January 8, thousands of Bolsonaro supporters stormed the Brazilian Congress, Supreme Court, Senate, and...
January 13, 2023
I glanced at my phone. It was 11:48pm on December 31, 2022. I ambled slowly...
January 12, 2023
Over the past couple of decades, one of the most active and creative fields of...
January 11, 2023
It is a new year and a wonderful time to welcome a new guest contributor...
January 10, 2023
The Conference on Faith and History (CFH) has its annual board meeting this Friday, on...
January 09, 2023
Like many of you, I watched in horror last Monday as Buffalo Bills safety Damar...
January 07, 2023
“The Americans, having introduced slavery among them, their hearts have become almost seared, as with...
January 05, 2023
Can a whole society have a life verse? As I argue in my recent book,...
January 03, 2023
Today we have the pleasure of welcoming a guest contribution from Jacob Huneycutt, a history...

December 2022

December 30, 2022
I’ve been long in the habit of sharing enjoyable reads from the last year. For...
December 29, 2022
Through the years, I have worked on how media portrayals reflect changing attitudes towards religion,...
December 28, 2022
One of the wonderful things about working on a book about how women navigated theological...
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