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June 2021

June 03, 2021
The news that the Supreme Court has recently agreed to review an abortion case for...
June 02, 2021
Can Pentecostal spirituality and Mennonite peace move together as a great river flowing with justice...
June 01, 2021
Chris argues that Christian higher education is vocational: not because it prepares students for particular...

May 2021

May 31, 2021
Last week, a friend of mine recounted her experience working as a physician in New...
May 28, 2021
A story in the New York Times just addressed one of the most significant developments...
May 27, 2021
PBS recently aired an American Experience documentary about the life of Billy Graham. The subject of...
May 26, 2021
I am weirdly interested in who becomes the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention...
May 25, 2021
It will sound strange coming from a Christian historian writing at Patheos’ Evangelical channel, but......
May 24, 2021
Sometimes I post blogs because I have things to share, and on occasion, I am...
May 21, 2021
My present book project is easy enough to describe. I am writing a “biography” of...
May 20, 2021
Today's Anxious Bench post is written by two of my colleagues at Calvin University, Elisha...
May 19, 2021
Today’s post is a guest contribution from Dr. Nadya Williams, a professor of history at...
May 18, 2021
A paragraph about abortion in his new book made Chris think of a chapter about...
May 17, 2021
My middle-school-aged son once described what I do teaching honors’ college classes as sitting around...
May 15, 2021
At the end of a week that feels like a turning point, Chris leaves some...
May 14, 2021
I recently posted about the character and drawback of virtual religion, and of what we lose...
May 13, 2021
How would you like to have a President Trump and a President Biden at the...
May 12, 2021
Today we welcome Joey Cochran to the Anxious Bench. Joey recently earned his Ph.D. from Trinity...
May 11, 2021
"Rather than evolving its understanding of female sexuality," argues guest-blogger Sheila Wray Gregoire, "the evangelical...
May 10, 2021
Since 2007, the United States has “showed the largest shift of any country away from...
May 07, 2021
I don’t know where I am. That might sound like a desperate confession by an...
May 06, 2021
When Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that six books written by the late bestselling children’s author...
May 05, 2021
Padilla earned his reputation as an enfant terrible who showed no fear in challenging white...
May 04, 2021
Chris introduces us to a Lutheran pastor less famous than Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Niemöller,...
May 03, 2021
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and in a year when racism and violence...

April 2021

April 30, 2021
Today we have a guest post concerning a topic that is near and dear to...
April 28, 2021
It may seem strange to think about the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving in the springtime, but...
April 28, 2021
I have a cookie every night before bed. I'm not sure whether this is physically...
April 27, 2021
Guest blogger Anika Prather explains the liberating effects of the classics on Black leaders like...
April 26, 2021
For a new book projective tentatively entitled “Unholy Wars: Secularist Violence in Modern History,” I...
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