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July 2022

July 13, 2022
Forty-one years ago, Alasdair MacIntyre published his prophetic After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory....
July 12, 2022
My mother nurtured the vital habit of literacy in me from an early age. She...
July 07, 2022
If you get to name a controversy, then your side is well on the way...
July 06, 2022
I have been a reader of the Anxious Bench since its beginning. The first post...
July 05, 2022
I am so pleased to welcome Joey Cochran to The Anxious Bench today--not as a guest...
July 04, 2022
A couple of my long-standing interests recently came together in a very unhappy way. My...

June 2022

June 30, 2022
I recently reread a text that I already know well, but encountered it once again...
June 29, 2022
At the end of Freedom Summer 1971, John Perkins called it “the biggest failure in...
June 28, 2022
Imagine this scenario: a Person of Prominence who is a devout Christian is praying. This...
June 27, 2022
Crisis pregnancies have profound human costs.  There are life-changing consequences for women who find themselves...
June 23, 2022
I posted about my current book project, Storm of Images, which concerns the Iconoclasm struggle...
June 22, 2022
I am excited to welcome to the Anxious Bench for today's guest post Samuel L....
June 21, 2022
Our blogmeister says farewell after six years and nearly 400 posts at The Anxious Bench.
June 20, 2022
I have been posting about my current book project, Storm of Images, which concerns the...
June 16, 2022
“So, what are you working on right now? “I'm doing a book called Storm of...
June 15, 2022
Every year, it seems, at least one new English Bible translation appears. Some make a...
June 14, 2022
I usually wait until the end of June to post a mid-year report on what’s...
June 13, 2022
A review of James L. Heft's The Future of Catholic Higher Education (Oxford University Press,...
June 09, 2022
I have an observation, and a question. Pilgrimage is enjoying an astonishing revival in the...
June 08, 2022
Today I welcome Stephanie Peek to The Anxious Bench. Dr. Peek completed her PhD in...
June 07, 2022
Chris talks to Eboo Patel about his new book, We Need to Build, and his...
June 06, 2022
We hear a great deal about the likely effects of climate change, and what it...
June 02, 2022
This coming Sunday, June 5, the church celebrates the great feast of Pentecost, with all...
June 01, 2022
These hunted people were my people.

May 2022

May 31, 2022
What will happen if the Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade next month and gives...
May 30, 2022
Historians have long argued that American evangelicalism is a transatlantic religious movement. However, according to...
May 26, 2022
Today we have a guest post from my Baylor colleague, T. J. Geiger. As he...
May 25, 2022
I applied to history PhD programs twice. I was actually admitted to a couple very...
May 24, 2022
Chris' oral history of this blog ends with some closing reflections from contributors, who also...
May 23, 2022
Last time I talked about using a longish poem as a resource for teaching the...
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