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June 2022

June 23, 2022
I posted about my current book project, Storm of Images, which concerns the Iconoclasm struggle...
June 22, 2022
I am excited to welcome to the Anxious Bench for today's guest post Samuel L....
June 21, 2022
Our blogmeister says farewell after six years and nearly 400 posts at The Anxious Bench.
June 20, 2022
I have been posting about my current book project, Storm of Images, which concerns the...
June 16, 2022
“So, what are you working on right now? “I'm doing a book called Storm of...
June 15, 2022
Every year, it seems, at least one new English Bible translation appears. Some make a...
June 14, 2022
I usually wait until the end of June to post a mid-year report on what’s...
June 13, 2022
A review of James L. Heft's The Future of Catholic Higher Education (Oxford University Press,...
June 09, 2022
I have an observation, and a question. Pilgrimage is enjoying an astonishing revival in the...
June 08, 2022
Today I welcome Stephanie Peek to The Anxious Bench. Dr. Peek completed her PhD in...
June 07, 2022
Chris talks to Eboo Patel about his new book, We Need to Build, and his...
June 06, 2022
We hear a great deal about the likely effects of climate change, and what it...
June 02, 2022
This coming Sunday, June 5, the church celebrates the great feast of Pentecost, with all...
June 01, 2022
These hunted people were my people.

May 2022

May 31, 2022
What will happen if the Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade next month and gives...
May 30, 2022
Historians have long argued that American evangelicalism is a transatlantic religious movement. However, according to...
May 26, 2022
Today we have a guest post from my Baylor colleague, T. J. Geiger. As he...
May 25, 2022
I applied to history PhD programs twice. I was actually admitted to a couple very...
May 24, 2022
Chris' oral history of this blog ends with some closing reflections from contributors, who also...
May 23, 2022
Last time I talked about using a longish poem as a resource for teaching the...
May 20, 2022
On Wednesday morning, May 11, Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, who was covering an...
May 19, 2022
I have often taught courses on Christian history, and on Global/World Christianity. There is one...
May 18, 2022
One of the reasons that the conversation about abortion is so polarizing in the United...
May 17, 2022
Part two in Chris' "oral" history of this blog covers the period from 2015 to...
May 16, 2022
Among his many other exceptional qualities, Abraham Lincoln had high regard for his stepmother. Sarah...
May 12, 2022
The Biblical world at various eras is probably the most intensely studied society in human...
May 11, 2022
"Have you been to St. Thomas yet?" The question buzzed my phone. It was from...
May 10, 2022
This month The Anxious Bench celebrates its 10th anniversary by telling its own story... starting...
May 09, 2022
More than usually, I am currently living in two different worlds, and traveling between them,...
May 05, 2022
Much of Christian theology and doctrine grows out of St. Paul’s letters to various congregations...
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