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March 2021

March 29, 2021
Tell me how you phrase the question and I will tell you the answer you...
March 27, 2021
Before the Oral Roberts University Golden Eagles play their Sweet Sixteen game against Arkansas, learn...
March 26, 2021
I have a dilemma. I want to rave about a literary work that depends upon...
March 25, 2021
Anthea Butler’s White Evangelical Racism is a tough, hard-hitting book. She pulls no punches. There’s...
March 24, 2021
Is the theologically conservative Reformed wing of evangelicalism going to permanently divide over race and...
March 23, 2021
Why a minor detail in the announcement of Beth Moore leaving the Southern Baptist Convention...
March 22, 2021
God wants you to be temperate but could not possibly expect you to be svelte....
March 20, 2021
Wondering how unusual it is that this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament includes colleges and...
March 19, 2021
This week, Pope Francis approved a document saying that that Catholic priests were not allowed...
March 18, 2021
Earlier this month, Jemar Tisby shared his story of leaving white evangelical spaces with the...
March 17, 2021
In less than 5 weeks,  The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women...
March 16, 2021
Are Christian college professors also Christian ministers? Chris wrestles with questions at the heart of...
March 15, 2021
The St. Patrick’s Day celebrations this year will be another casualty of the coronavirus pandemic....
March 12, 2021
How you phrase a question goes a long way to determining the answer. That comment...
March 11, 2021
Today we welcome Elizabeth Jemison to the Anxious Bench. She is Assistant Professor of Religion at...
March 10, 2021
Along the way, Griffith pauses this narrative to make an important point: that it didn’t...
March 09, 2021
As news breaks that Beth Moore is breaking with the Southern Baptist Convention, Chris looks...
March 09, 2021
To my non-expert ears, one of the most persistent themes sounding in American religious history...
March 08, 2021
Amid the onslaught of horrifying news about the winter surge in California, one story weighs...
March 05, 2021
Some parts of the Bible raise a lot of questions and debates, and indeed are...
March 04, 2021
Today we welcome Elesha Coffman back to the Anxious Bench. Elesha is associate professor of...
March 03, 2021
I wrote last month about my new course on the United States in Global Perspective...
March 02, 2021
As he both teaches a class on World War II and observes the season of...
March 01, 2021
March 1 is the feast of David, the early medieval bishop and missionary who became...

February 2021

February 26, 2021
I recently read a column that impressed me, in a source that Anxious Bench readers...
February 25, 2021
What’s the most disliked religion in the contemporary United States? Until recently, “Islam” would have...
February 24, 2021
My Ph.D. dissertation advisor taught at Brown University for thirty-three years.  Two of the other...
February 23, 2021
  Today we are pleased to welcome former Anxious Bench blogger Tim Gloege back to...
February 22, 2021
Readers of the New York Times were greeted yesterday with a full-page paid advertisement, notifying...
February 19, 2021
Through the years, I have often taught courses on Christian history, and I have always...
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