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March 2023

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...
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...
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