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July 2021

July 27, 2021
Today I'm happy to welcome to the Bench Clay Sidenbender, a freelance journalist based in Edwardsburg, MI....
July 26, 2021
After a painful and exhausting year that found Asian Americans reeling from a surge in...
July 23, 2021
It would be hard to find a more universally popular figure than Francis of Assisi....
July 21, 2021
What exactly does the University of Iowa have against student religious groups? It’s hard to...
July 21, 2021
I spent last week researching in the Southern Baptist Convention archives, located within the denomination’s...
July 20, 2021
Chris pays tribute to theologian Clarence Bass, who died earlier this month at age 98.
July 19, 2021
Through most of human history, people interpreted climate events and natural disasters as signs of...
July 16, 2021
As usual, I have a couple of writing projects on the go at any given...
July 15, 2021
In which Chris takes a shot at getting some new Christian college students as excited...
July 14, 2021
Late in 1999, while the world panicked about Y2K (remember that?), I ordered a new...
July 13, 2021
What does it mean to follow Jesus? How do different Christian traditions answer this question?...
July 12, 2021
By now, summer might be testing limits of our altruism to our kids, let alone...
July 09, 2021
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the number of Americans who identify with Christianity...
July 07, 2021
Kate Carté is Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University. She's here to discuss...
July 07, 2021
White evangelicals are less likely than any other religious or demographic group in the United...
July 06, 2021
Not Jesus, but the novel by C.S. Forester that inspired a Tom Hanks WWII movie...
July 05, 2021
I have argued that transformational eras of religious change are often rooted in climate-driven crises,...
July 02, 2021
I sometimes fantasize about writing a book called Famous Moments in Church History That Never...
July 01, 2021
Why have white evangelicals had a hard time embracing the call for social justice?  In...

June 2021

June 30, 2021
"I was disenchanted with things that were organized," says Wilson.
June 29, 2021
Forty-nine years ago today, the Supreme Court of the United States announced its decision in...
June 28, 2021
In April, a month after the deadly shooting in Atlanta, eight people were gunned down...
June 25, 2021
I have written a good deal in recent years about the impact of climate on...
June 23, 2021
“The debate over critical race theory,” reported Christianity Today a few weeks ago, “has landed...
June 23, 2021
To be honest, I did not think the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting was going...
June 22, 2021
Whether U.S. history involves European encounters with Native Americans or enslavement of Africans, Chris urges...
June 21, 2021
I have posted quite a bit on the link between religion and demography. Obviously I...
June 19, 2021
On a holiday that one historian says is "tailor-made for history," Chris suggests some ways...
June 18, 2021
Throughout history, climate-driven disasters have a driven sudden and revolutionary change in human societies, transforming...
June 17, 2021
This week's Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting has been widely viewed as a moment of...
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