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October 2021

October 18, 2021
In her fascinating book, Beyond the Synagogue, Rachel Gross describes a wide range of activities...
October 15, 2021
The excellent scholar Crawford Gribben has an ambitious new book out on The Rise and...
October 14, 2021
I didn't mean to write this post. I'm still undecided what purpose a response to Kevin...
October 13, 2021
On October 5, 2021 the Southern Baptist Convention did something really unusual. Its Executive Committee...
October 12, 2021
Chris reexamines his own skepticism about miraculous healing — and looks back to the relationship between...
October 11, 2021
Zachary (Zac) Wingerd is a colleague of mine in the History Department at Baylor University....
October 08, 2021
My most recent book, Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheaval,...
October 07, 2021
Today we are so pleased to welcome a guest post by Verónica Gutiérrez, associate professor...
October 06, 2021
The Aegean beach vacation seemed perfect at first, a welcome respite, a break from the...
October 05, 2021
Chris pays tribute to Anxious Bench co-founder John Turner, who retired from our blog last...
October 04, 2021
What follows is a book review of Zena Hitz's Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures...
October 01, 2021
It’s imminent. My Global History of the Cold War 1945-1991 will be out from Palgrave...

September 2021

September 29, 2021
This is my final regular post for the Anxious Bench after nine years on its roster of...
September 29, 2021
"This is both an important and a frustrating book." It was 2009 when I read...
September 28, 2021
Throughout American higher education, women now account for at least 60% of enrollment. The gender...
September 27, 2021
Indexes have been much in my mind of late. If you ever write or publish...
September 24, 2021
Angelus is the respected news magazine of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Los Angeles, and...
September 23, 2021
As I was preparing last week to lead a graduate seminar discussion of Amy Louise...
September 22, 2021
A couple of years ago on a Sunday morning, I landed at Logan Airport and...
September 21, 2021
If the Christian university does serve as an instrument meeting the needs of external constituents...
September 20, 2021
Twenty years ago today, while Americans cleaned up the wreckage of the September 11 attacks,...
September 17, 2021
My present work concerns one particular psalm, namely 91, and the astonishingly large impact it...
September 16, 2021
Sometimes it seems that Americans are unusually good at hating each other. Red/blue, secular/evangelical, vaxxed
September 15, 2021
Many years ago, I saw the superb play Brief Lives, which led me promptly to...
September 14, 2021
Do Christian colleges offer a liberal or instrumental model of education? At his institution, Chris...
September 13, 2021
In some periods in history, events and trends move at a rocket sled pace, when...
September 10, 2021
I have been posting about the Cold War as a subject for writing and especially...
September 09, 2021
Guest blogger Joy Qualls considers the role of women in her Pentecostal denomination, past and...
September 08, 2021
As the US left Afghanistan last month after a twenty-year occupation, “marking the end of...
September 07, 2021
As the Christian university where he teaches turns 150 years old, Chris reflects that "if...
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