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April 2022

April 05, 2022
Why go to college? How do you find a good fit? Is the cost worth...
April 05, 2022
Will the culture war flashpoints that are fragmenting American evangelicalism divide evangelical higher education as...
April 04, 2022
Over 20 million Americans chose to quit their jobs since September 2021. The forces behind...

March 2022

March 31, 2022
I love spending time in the American southwest. Many years ago, I was talking with...
March 30, 2022
Today's guest post is by Christina J. Lambert. She is a doctoral student in English...
March 29, 2022
What do evangelicals in the U.S. think about the Russian invasion of Ukraine? You might...
March 28, 2022
Empires move or deport populations, often against the will of those subject peoples. Such movements...
March 25, 2022
Another comment about the ongoing horrors in Ukraine. Or rather, three thoughts in particular, respectively:...
March 24, 2022
Today's guest post is by Emma Fenske. Emma is a current MA student and incoming...
March 23, 2022
I have been posting about the borderlands of empire, territories beyond the tight control of...
March 22, 2022
I don't often dip into my archives and reprise a post. But since the U.S....
March 21, 2022
When I was pregnant and finishing my dissertation, a beloved dean told me about one...
March 17, 2022
Empires commonly have religions that enjoy an established or favored status, and in many cases,...
March 16, 2022
I planned this post several weeks ago. Ever since publishing The Making of Biblical Womanhood,...
March 15, 2022
In the final chapter of her bestseller The Making of Biblical Womanhood, my friend, colleague,...
March 14, 2022
I recently wrote about how the mighty Persian Empire became a powerful vehicle for the...
March 12, 2022
Christians often struggle with the cursing language of the imprecatory psalms. But Chris found that...
March 11, 2022
I have been posting about the linkage between empires and the shaping of world religions,...
March 10, 2022
Very few non-specialist Americans or Europeans could tell you offhand why the name of Grozny...
March 09, 2022
On Russian Orthodoxy as one of the underpinnings of Putin's regime.
March 08, 2022
“We feel your prayerful support,” a Ukrainian Christian who is on the front lines fighting...
March 07, 2022
  How did gender shape how African American women experienced religion and enslavement? As we...
March 03, 2022
Throughout history, Empires have shaped religions worldwide, often in quite revolutionary ways. Commonly, they have...
March 02, 2022
Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent that it ushers in, are appropriate for considering...
March 01, 2022
Chris shares a free daily devotional for Lent, a faculty-written booklet that made him think...

February 2022

February 28, 2022
I have been describing the astonishing success of Buddhism across much of Southern and Eastern...
February 25, 2022
If you were not terrified yesterday, you were not paying attention. Something very bad indeed...
February 24, 2022
Last year, we read reports of one of the great archaeological discoveries of recent years,...
February 23, 2022
As the Russian invasion of the Ukraine begins, I struggle along with so many other...
February 22, 2022
Should Christian history make evident Paul's three great virtues: faith, hope, and love?
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