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February 2021

February 18, 2021
“Are you going rogue?” The question startled me. It had come from a professor at...
February 17, 2021
"Why do you think that is?" he asked. The steady stream of hungry students forked...
February 16, 2021
Miles Mullin reviews John Wilsey's new religious biography of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster...
February 15, 2021
This blog addresses the issue of why scholars who care about their craft absolutely have...
February 12, 2021
I recently had a sobering lesson in how we understand the New Testament. Obviously, it’s...
February 11, 2021
Hunter Hampton is Assistant Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University. Hunter earned...
February 10, 2021
My ancestors weren't as peaceful as advertised.
February 09, 2021
Chris looks into the history of an expression that's resurfaced often in the last year...
February 08, 2021
Despite ongoing public commentary about how the rise of religious "nones" reveals that "America lost...
February 05, 2021
What will US religion look like in a decade or two? This is the subject...
February 04, 2021
We are pleased to welcome Peter J. Thuesen to the Anxious Bench. Thuesen is Professor...
February 03, 2021
I started college as an astrophysics major. I had always loved Star Wars and Star...
February 02, 2021
Reviewing Barack Obama's first book about his presidency, Chris found A Promised Land something like...
February 01, 2021
David Baddiel is a British comedian and writer, who is usually very funny. He is...

January 2021

January 29, 2021
My present research involves writing a biography of Psalm 91 as it has been read...
January 28, 2021
35 years ago today, President Ronald Reagan eulogized the astronauts who died in the Challenger...
January 27, 2021
When I began studying American history as a Ph.D. student at Brown University twenty years...
January 26, 2021
Today we welcome Daniel Meeter to the Anxious Bench. Rev. Meeter has retired from nineteen years...
January 25, 2021
Chris tells the story of the ASV, the Bible that was "common among mainline Protestants......
January 25, 2021
In our season of tumult, grief, and new hope, the film Pieces of a Woman,...
January 22, 2021
 We often encounter attempts to gauge the strength of faiths and denominations in the US,...
January 21, 2021
The subculture of American evangelicalism has shaped me deeply. My most formative spiritual experiences through...
January 20, 2021
Today I am sharing a hard story of how a woman, simply because of her...
January 19, 2021
As the Trump presidency enters its last day, we look back at some of the...
January 18, 2021
I post from time to time about books that I believe tell us a lot...
January 15, 2021
This is going to be intriguing. In 2019, it was announced that the terrific director...
January 14, 2021
Today we welcome Janel Kragt Bakker to the Anxious Bench. Janel is Associate Professor of Mission,...
January 13, 2021
Three members of the Anxious Bench community also serve on the Executive Board of the...
January 13, 2021
A conversation with Hillary Kaell about her book that traces the movement of money, letters,...
January 12, 2021
As the Trump era ends, Chris talks to political scientist Andy Bramsen, a comparative politics...
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