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May 2022

May 20, 2022
On Wednesday morning, May 11, Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, who was covering an...
May 19, 2022
I have often taught courses on Christian history, and on Global/World Christianity. There is one...
May 18, 2022
One of the reasons that the conversation about abortion is so polarizing in the United...
May 17, 2022
Part two in Chris' "oral" history of this blog covers the period from 2015 to...
May 16, 2022
Among his many other exceptional qualities, Abraham Lincoln had high regard for his stepmother. Sarah...
May 12, 2022
The Biblical world at various eras is probably the most intensely studied society in human...
May 11, 2022
"Have you been to St. Thomas yet?" The question buzzed my phone. It was from...
May 10, 2022
This month The Anxious Bench celebrates its 10th anniversary by telling its own story... starting...
May 09, 2022
More than usually, I am currently living in two different worlds, and traveling between them,...
May 05, 2022
Much of Christian theology and doctrine grows out of St. Paul’s letters to various congregations...
May 04, 2022
A trip in which we interrogate our familial and religious heritage
May 03, 2022
What will the end of Roe v. Wade really mean for abortion in America?  If...
May 02, 2022
  Scholars have long described the global ambitions of White Protestant American as rooted in...

April 2022

April 28, 2022
I have invented a new discipline, the Theology of Punctuation. Some years ago, I published...
April 27, 2022
Grove City College, a small liberal arts institution in Pennsylvania, has been in the news....
April 26, 2022
As his university concludes its 150th anniversary, Chris considers how it remains — in the words...
April 25, 2022
The evangelist Luke tells us about a couple who were en route to Emmaus, when...
April 22, 2022
This week marks the one year anniversary of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation...
April 22, 2022
Should a conservative Christian study history in a liberal secular academic institution? I was reminded...
April 21, 2022
Over the past week, we have heard a great deal about Jesus's Resurrection, open tombs,...
April 20, 2022
Two weeks after Russian tanks first rolled into Ukraine, the Time Magazine’s March 14 issue...
April 19, 2022
Chris considers another analogy between WWII and the war in Ukraine: how the arguments made...
April 18, 2022
I have recently had the pleasure of hosting a two-speaker conference on the theme of...
April 14, 2022
In several past blogs, I have commented on the extreme difficulty of reading the New...
April 13, 2022
I'm currently on a research trip in England, so am posting from my Anxious Bench...
April 12, 2022
In recent days, Marc Chagall's WWII-era painting of a "Ukrainian Family" has been circulating on...
April 11, 2022
During Holy Week, it's tempting to think about the way, or rather, the Way. That...
April 08, 2022
Husezo Rhakho is a doctoral student in the Religion Department at Baylor University. He holds...
April 07, 2022
As empires spread around the world, they carry with them ideas and institutions, and terminology,...
April 06, 2022
Reflections on a book of peace written by a violent man
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