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November 2021

November 26, 2021
In the opening years of the eighteenth century, England experienced an outbreak of spiritual excitement,...
November 25, 2021
Today we're happy to welcome back to the Bench Janine Giordano Drake. A faculty member in...
November 24, 2021
My daughter told a joke this week. "What do you call a priest who becomes...
November 23, 2021
Two recent biographers argue that Jimmy Carter was actually a significant U.S. president, in part...
November 22, 2021
One of the greatest popular culture events in Early Modern London was Bartholomew Fair, a...
November 19, 2021
Last time, I talked about the overwhelming climate shock that befell Europe in the year...
November 18, 2021
Supposedly, the split among American evangelical Protestants over slavery in the Civil War era reduced...
November 17, 2021
The jarring result, after centuries of Christian expansion to the East, is a burgeoning phenomenon...
November 16, 2021
Why Chris thinks that historians have a role to play in improving evangelical catechesis — the...
November 15, 2021
  Recent acts of violence and racism – most notably, the murders of George Floyd...
November 12, 2021
My latest book is Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval....
November 11, 2021
Today I am so pleased to welcome Katherine Goodwin to The Anxious Bench. Katherine is...
November 10, 2021
A few years ago I was put in charge of our department’s introductory course for...
November 09, 2021
As usual, I celebrated the end of Daylight Saving Time (DST) this past weekend by...
November 08, 2021
Of the many churches in the Byzantine capital of Constantinople, only one retained its Orthodox...
November 05, 2021
My Baylor colleague and friend Beth Barr writes regularly about the critical importance of women...
November 04, 2021
“On the road from Galway to the Cliffs of Moher on the west coast of...
November 03, 2021
It had been a twenty year stretch of economic and political disquiet. Not surprisingly, perhaps,...
November 02, 2021
While off-year elections like today's are normally the domain of school boards, sheriff’s offices, and...
November 01, 2021
On July 6, 1944, exactly a month after the Allies' D-day landing at Normandy, the...

October 2021

October 30, 2021
I have a strictly seasonal reading recommendation, and one that is highly appropriate for the...
October 29, 2021
As a devout Halloweenie, I regard it as my fundamental duty to recommend at least...
October 28, 2021
This is one of my favorite posts from my Anxious Bench archives. It is the...
October 27, 2021
Today I am so pleased to welcome David Drake Criscione to the Bench. David is...
October 26, 2021
Chris tells the story of Earl Bakken, the Lutheran engineer whose work on the pacemaker...
October 25, 2021
I have posted a few times on issues of translating the Bible, and how they...
October 22, 2021
Today’s post concerns two topics of long-standing interest to me, and how – very oddly...
October 21, 2021
“Evangelical,” the director of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Christian Liberty Commission said in 1976, was...
October 20, 2021
The magazine has consistently encouraged its readers to think better, pray harder, and integrate spiritual...
October 19, 2021
What does it mean to be "evangelical"? Is that term still useful? Chris reports on...
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