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September 2021

September 06, 2021
Once upon a time in the City of Brotherly Love, a Lutheran minister, led by...
September 03, 2021
Around the world, the stunning violence of September 11 cast a long shadow over the...
September 01, 2021
White evangelicals don’t like immigrants or refugees. Instead, they love Trump, travel bans, and border...
September 01, 2021
Today I am so pleased to welcome Amy Achenbach to the Anxious Bench. Amy is...

August 2021

August 31, 2021
Recent events at Bethlehem Baptist Church — where John Piper's successor resigned this summer — and...
August 30, 2021
In 2005, George Clooney starred in Good Night, and Good Luck, a decent film about...
August 28, 2021
On Thursday, Pres. Joe Biden invoked Isaiah 6:8 in eulogizing American service members killed in Kabul,...
August 27, 2021
I have been posting about my forthcoming book on The Global History of the Cold...
August 26, 2021
White evangelical politics in the United States has for many years been characterized primarily by...
August 25, 2021
Until the 1980s, evangelicals didn’t distinguish between legal immigrants and refugees and “illegal” undocumented immigrants....
August 24, 2021
Jonathan Edwards owned slaves and defended slavery. Why does John Piper think it's alright to...
August 23, 2021
  Chaotic scenes of people surrounding military aircraft and hoping desperately to be evacuated: this...
August 20, 2021
Recently, I was one of several historians of the 1970s-1980s era interviewed by New York...
August 18, 2021
What does it mean to be a Christian historian? I’ve been one for almost a...
August 18, 2021
It was the title that first caught my eye. Evangelical theologian Owen Strachan named his...
August 17, 2021
Chris has a new book out today... but realized that "thinking of this book as...
August 16, 2021
This past week, Andrew Walls died, aged 93. As a pioneering scholar of Global/World Christianity,...
August 13, 2021
I have described my forthcoming book on The Global History of the Cold War, and...
August 12, 2021
Guest blogger Jonathan Wilson suggests how historians can "help our fellow citizens" — including fellow church...
August 11, 2021
How can we tell whether a particular Christian is likely to feel more comfortable in...
August 10, 2021
When the United States entered World War I, reports Chris, it wasn't just German Americans...
August 09, 2021
In the ebb and flow religious history, reformist movement are often necessary, especially perhaps in...
August 06, 2021
I am presently in the production stage of my new book on A History of...
August 04, 2021
Hunter Hampton is Assistant Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University. Hunter earned...
August 04, 2021
Last January we spent two nights in a ghost town. Deep in West Texas, on...
August 03, 2021
Chris found it easy to forget that competition derives from a Latin term for "striving...
August 02, 2021
I have been posting about my forthcoming book on the Global History of the Cold...

July 2021

July 30, 2021
I have been writing a book called The Global History of the Cold War, which...
July 29, 2021
Today's post is another guest feature from my wife, Nadya Williams, professor of ancient history...
July 28, 2021
I hate to come down hard on leaders trying to move their tradition away from...
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