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June 2021

June 16, 2021
What would American evangelicalism look like if the southernization of American evangelicalism had never happened,...
June 15, 2021
Almost halfway through another tumultous year, Chris reveals what's been most popular so far in...
June 14, 2021
I am very pleased to announce that a book that I have worked on for...
June 14, 2021
In coming decades, we are going to hear a great deal about climate refugees, those...
June 11, 2021
Chris Gehrz just did a blogpost that I found extremely rewarding, under the surprising title...
June 10, 2021
Zachary Schrag is Professor of History at George Mason University. He is the author of...
June 09, 2021
It sat at the end of our counter for almost a week. Beginning of school...
June 08, 2021
Two-thirds of Americans now think that intelligent life may exist on other planets. It's an...
June 07, 2021
I have been posting about the links between demographic change and religion, of fertility and...
June 04, 2021
Scholars speak of micro-histories, very specific and local instances that potentially reveal a much larger...
June 03, 2021
The news that the Supreme Court has recently agreed to review an abortion case for...
June 02, 2021
Can Pentecostal spirituality and Mennonite peace move together as a great river flowing with justice...
June 01, 2021
Chris argues that Christian higher education is vocational: not because it prepares students for particular...

May 2021

May 31, 2021
Last week, a friend of mine recounted her experience working as a physician in New...
May 28, 2021
A story in the New York Times just addressed one of the most significant developments...
May 27, 2021
PBS recently aired an American Experience documentary about the life of Billy Graham. The subject of...
May 26, 2021
I am weirdly interested in who becomes the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention...
May 25, 2021
It will sound strange coming from a Christian historian writing at Patheos’ Evangelical channel, but......
May 24, 2021
Sometimes I post blogs because I have things to share, and on occasion, I am...
May 21, 2021
My present book project is easy enough to describe. I am writing a “biography” of...
May 20, 2021
Today's Anxious Bench post is written by two of my colleagues at Calvin University, Elisha...
May 19, 2021
Today’s post is a guest contribution from Dr. Nadya Williams, a professor of history at...
May 18, 2021
A paragraph about abortion in his new book made Chris think of a chapter about...
May 17, 2021
My middle-school-aged son once described what I do teaching honors’ college classes as sitting around...
May 15, 2021
At the end of a week that feels like a turning point, Chris leaves some...
May 14, 2021
I recently posted about the character and drawback of virtual religion, and of what we lose...
May 13, 2021
How would you like to have a President Trump and a President Biden at the...
May 12, 2021
Today we welcome Joey Cochran to the Anxious Bench. Joey recently earned his Ph.D. from Trinity...
May 11, 2021
"Rather than evolving its understanding of female sexuality," argues guest-blogger Sheila Wray Gregoire, "the evangelical...
May 10, 2021
Since 2007, the United States has “showed the largest shift of any country away from...
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