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January 2023

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...
December 27, 2022
2022 was the most momentous year in the history of American abortion politics since 1973....
December 26, 2022
The winter holidays are a time when Americans celebrate home and family. Consider the songs...
December 23, 2022
Merry Christmas and Christmas season! As I have been preparing to write my first book...
December 22, 2022
My new book is He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence: The Many Lives...
December 21, 2022
We all give thanks that the excesses of the Reformation didn’t kill Christmas in the...
December 20, 2022
For the past three weeks I've been leading my Sunday School class through the history...
December 19, 2022
I have been writing a chapter on the history of Baptists in Latin America for...
December 16, 2022
“In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word...
December 15, 2022
The feast of Hanukkah begins this year on the evening of Sunday, December 18. Although...
December 14, 2022
Since my earliest memories, my life has been defined by books. I have always loved...
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