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August 2021

August 24, 2021
Jonathan Edwards owned slaves and defended slavery. Why does John Piper think it's alright to...
August 23, 2021
  Chaotic scenes of people surrounding military aircraft and hoping desperately to be evacuated: this...
August 20, 2021
Recently, I was one of several historians of the 1970s-1980s era interviewed by New York...
August 18, 2021
What does it mean to be a Christian historian? I’ve been one for almost a...
August 18, 2021
It was the title that first caught my eye. Evangelical theologian Owen Strachan named his...
August 17, 2021
Chris has a new book out today... but realized that "thinking of this book as...
August 16, 2021
This past week, Andrew Walls died, aged 93. As a pioneering scholar of Global/World Christianity,...
August 13, 2021
I have described my forthcoming book on The Global History of the Cold War, and...
August 12, 2021
Guest blogger Jonathan Wilson suggests how historians can "help our fellow citizens" — including fellow church...
August 11, 2021
How can we tell whether a particular Christian is likely to feel more comfortable in...
August 10, 2021
When the United States entered World War I, reports Chris, it wasn't just German Americans...
August 09, 2021
In the ebb and flow religious history, reformist movement are often necessary, especially perhaps in...
August 06, 2021
I am presently in the production stage of my new book on A History of...
August 04, 2021
Hunter Hampton is Assistant Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University. Hunter earned...
August 04, 2021
Last January we spent two nights in a ghost town. Deep in West Texas, on...
August 03, 2021
Chris found it easy to forget that competition derives from a Latin term for "striving...
August 02, 2021
I have been posting about my forthcoming book on the Global History of the Cold...

July 2021

July 30, 2021
I have been writing a book called The Global History of the Cold War, which...
July 29, 2021
Today's post is another guest feature from my wife, Nadya Williams, professor of ancient history...
July 28, 2021
I hate to come down hard on leaders trying to move their tradition away from...
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...
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