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One of the most interesting books on religion published this past year was Tara Isabella...

From the Anxious Bench archives, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Mayflower passenger Dorothy Bradford's death. In December of...

.  .  . But my students' family history papers have taught me not to ignore...

There are so many good reasons to read Esau McCaulley’s Reading While Black that I...

Yes, Virginia, it’s our first Covid Christmas and there isn't a Santa Claus.   Having passed...

Last time I posted about the overlap between entertainment, performance, and new religious movements -...

It's easy to sort out the actual history of what nineteenth-century Americans began calling the...

  During this pandemic semester, I had the privilege of teaching a graduate seminar on...

Looking for gift idea for the Christian history buff in your life? Chris has some...

Jacob S. Dorman has a really fine new book out on the historic Black religious...

Last time I wrote about George Herbert’s poem “The Church Militant” (published posthumously in 1633),...

Today we welcome Abram Van Engen to the Anxious Bench. Van Engen is Associate Professor of English...

In the wake of another election in which evangelicals overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump, what...

Fourteen years ago, an evangelical Republican named David Kuo called on fellow believers to fast...

        Today we welcome Amar D. Peterman to The Anxious Bench. Amar...

I posted recently about using quotes as springboards for discussions of particular historical eras, and...

Between 2018 and 2020, Stacey Abrams helped register 800,000 new voters in the state of...

Among the many reasons to be bothered by Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud,...

When the pianist plays the opening passages of “On Eagle’s Wings,” the mood in the...

Sometimes you find a quote that so precisely illustrates a historical or religious theme that...

My Anxious Bench colleague Chris Gehrz is smarter than I am. When I told him...

Anxious Elections Past The dust hasn't even begun to settle on the 2020 election. What...

As Abraham Lincoln spoke to a war-weary nation on the occasion of his second inauguration,...

For Election Day, Chris looks at how American Christians have prayed for each other as...

As the calendar would have it, I am scheduled to post today, one day before...

I love Halloween, and I love horror fiction. One of the most powerful and evocative...

  We welcome Peter Choi back  to the Anxious Bench today. Choi is Dean of Newbigin...

I couldn't tell you how many times I had walked past her. Dozens for sure....

Evangelicals in Sweden and the United States share similar theologies, but Swedish evangelicals tend to...

I have written a great deal through the years about the Global South, particularly in...