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January 2021

January 11, 2021
In the stories, images, and video footage of last week’s insurrection at the Capitol, two...
January 09, 2021
I've read much nastier negative comments in my time as a blogger, but few that...
January 08, 2021
I post from time to time about books that talk about religious ideas, and which...
January 07, 2021
Thanks to Tuesday's night election, Raphael Warnock will become not only the first Black senator...
January 07, 2021
Jemar Tisby has a new book out this week, How to Fight Racism. Is it...
January 06, 2021
I ended my Baylor graduate course last semester with a one-two punch of books on...
January 05, 2021
“All my writing—and yours,” claimed one composition instructor, “is autobiography.” So I've often wondered the...
January 04, 2021
You have undoubtedly seen yard signs like this around the place. The sentiments listed vary...
January 01, 2021
I am happy to announce my forthcoming book, due out from Oxford University Press this...

December 2020

December 31, 2020
"Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men," Jesus condemned the scribes and the...
December 30, 2020
During the final weeks of this year of extreme partisan polarization, a few more of...
December 29, 2020
Before we all say good riddance to 2020, Chris reveals our most popular posts and...
December 28, 2020
Mark Juergensmeyer, God at War: A Meditation on Religion and Warfare. Oxford University Press, 2020....
December 25, 2020
Christmas is a time to look back on the year almost passed by, and the...
December 24, 2020
For many of us, this is a Christmas without family celebrations, mall Santas, rousing performances...
December 23, 2020
On December 14, 2016, I published this post as The Peace of Christmas During the...
December 23, 2020
One year ago, in my post God's Christmas Gift to Women, I reflected on how...
December 22, 2020
While less than 1% of the Japanese population followed Christ when John Hersey's account of...
December 21, 2020
This is another in my posts on “reading” churches and their denominations to find what...
December 18, 2020
Through the years, I have posted repeatedly at this site on religious images in art,...
December 17, 2020
Aaron Griffith is assistant professor of history at  Sattler College and the author of God's Law and...
December 16, 2020
As the “Make America Great Again” movement demonstrates, the need for resistance remains.
December 15, 2020
How do we celebrate Christmas during a pandemic? Chris looks back to December 1918, when...
December 14, 2020
When Irving Berlin wrote that he was “dreaming of a white Christmas,” he was writing...
December 11, 2020
I have been posting about how some religious movements and “cults” show a strong overlap...
December 10, 2020
The latest scandal to rock American evangelicalism is more of the same but with a...
December 09, 2020
During this pandemic semester, I had the privilege of teaching a graduate seminar on Women...
December 08, 2020
According to one fall survey, nearly half of Americans claimed they definitely or probably wouldn't...
December 07, 2020
Last time I wrote about Tara Isabella Burton’s recent book Strange Rites: New Religions for...
December 05, 2020
John Robinson, pastor of the English separatist congregation in Leiden that partly transplanted itself to...
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