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April 2025

April 11, 2025
Yesterday morning, I received a startling email from my sons’ Little League head coach: one...
April 10, 2025
We are shortly to encounter a major landmark in the history of Christianity, and indeed...
April 09, 2025
The song "Deportee" came on my radar researching folk singer Joan Baez's support of Cesar...
April 07, 2025
In my February I talked about Untangling Critical Race Theory: What Christians Need to Know...
April 04, 2025
It’s Lent: Let’s Go to the Wilderness Budget cuts in the US government have resulted...
April 03, 2025
Today’s blog is a slightly expanded reprint of a post I did at this site...
April 01, 2025
In Support of Expansive Education I saw a debate play out in the comments of...

March 2025

March 27, 2025
We are running out of prophecies. Let me explain. I have been writing about what...
March 26, 2025
You know you are reading a good book when you wish you had read it...
March 25, 2025
Reflections on C. W. Goodyear's President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier (Simon and Schuster, 2023) Of...
March 21, 2025
In my last post, I charted the acceptance and gradual ostracizing of Pentecostals and charismatics...
March 20, 2025
Before too long, we are very likely to be dealing with the choice of a...
March 19, 2025
Until a century and a half or so ago, our premodern forbears didn’t sleep in...
March 18, 2025
As I stared at the fragments of the cross of Christ on display in the...
March 14, 2025
This Spring, I’m teaching a special topics course, “Christianizing Native Peoples,” which explores the Franciscan-indigenous...
March 13, 2025
In the quite near future, the world’s largest religious institution will be choosing a new...
March 12, 2025
Joan Baez is back in the news because of the recent film A Complete Unknown...
March 10, 2025
I am very pleased to announce on this post that my new book Broken Altars:...
March 07, 2025
  Recently I was in charge of an event—inviting people to come, making sure the...
March 06, 2025
You can think many things about the Trump presidency, but few devote much  attention to...
March 04, 2025
Old/New Nazism in America Like many of you, I have observed in horror the uptick...
March 03, 2025
It’s March, which means it’s Women’s History Month– and while in past years at the...

February 2025

February 27, 2025
This post concerns using a kind of historical evidence that I don’t normally deal with,...
February 26, 2025
“I want an honest recollection of what has been done. I want a reckoning with...
February 25, 2025
As I have watched the rapid destruction of constitutional checks and balances and liberal democratic...
February 20, 2025
I have been discussing Ernest Crosby’s novel Captain Jinks, Hero (1902), which I would claim...
February 19, 2025
Revivalists burn their bras in a Free Methodist bonfire
February 18, 2025
In May or June 325, several hundred bishops from across the Christian world met in...
February 14, 2025
She was of medium height, with intensely black hair drawn back in a knot, and...
February 13, 2025
Last time I posted about a largely forgotten satirical novel that I think is a...
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