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October 2022

October 27, 2022
If you must, you can read scary recent stories of ghosts and horrors for Halloween,...
October 26, 2022
In 2005, I entered Notre Dame as a wide-eyed young PhD student to study the...
October 25, 2022
Is there such a thing as an American evangelical political theology? Some pundits are convinced...
October 24, 2022
  Happy Filipino American History Month, everybody! In honor of this occasion, I’m doing the...
October 21, 2022
Disclaimer: I want to offer a short warning which could hypothetically go alongside most of...
October 20, 2022
This is me making a mea culpa, and actually profiting from the process. I made...
October 19, 2022
“Now this is the real McCoy, rooted in deep personal experience! … I’ve always suspected...
October 18, 2022
Today I am so pleased to welcome back to Lynneth Miller Renberg to the Anxious...
October 17, 2022
In my last post, I mentioned that I would write about the embattled evangélicos who...
October 14, 2022
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, I am currently writing a children’s chapter book...
October 13, 2022
At this moment, in late 2022, where in the world is the most destructive war...
October 12, 2022
“Most mornings during the school year, after the breakfast dishes have been put away, the...
October 11, 2022
W. E. B. Du Bois conveyed the notion of double-consciousness in his essay “Of Our...
October 10, 2022
[This past September 11, I was asked by a new interfaith center on Valparaiso University’s...
October 07, 2022
  On a recent trip to New York City to binge on musical theater, my...
October 06, 2022
Last time, I discussed an artistic representation of the Catholic Church overthrowing the evil heresy...
October 05, 2022
I offer a brief reflection today and one that is perhaps more theological than my...
October 04, 2022
I haven’t made it to the patriarchal bargain yet. We’ll save that for my first...
October 03, 2022
In the recent scholarly debate over presentism, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, in conversation with Tera Hunter and...

September 2022

September 30, 2022
On a recent trip to New York City to binge on musical theater, my companion...
September 29, 2022
I am thinking of founding a Museum of Religiously Incorrect Art. We presently live in...
September 28, 2022
This semester I am teaching one of my favorite courses: "Women, Gender, and Sex in...
September 27, 2022
Fifty percent of all people in the United States who attend church at least once...
September 26, 2022
September marks the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month, a welcome opportunity to discuss new...
September 23, 2022
Yesterday was the 116-year anniversary of the Atlanta “Race Riot”. I put “race riot” in...
September 22, 2022
“Christianity projected to lose majority status among Americans by 2070, Pew model projects.” That is...
September 21, 2022
The first volley in Ron Sider's battle against right-wing evangelicalism
September 20, 2022
Full title for this post (after an enlightening conversation with Hannah Anderson @sometimesalight)--Because the Experiences...
September 19, 2022
I have been thinking a lot about Jair Bolsonaro, the "Trump of the Tropics," president...
September 18, 2022
Our new regular contributor, Dr. João Chaves, releases his first post tomorrow. Having had a...
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