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April 2021

April 23, 2021
I have a long standing interest in archaeology, dating back to the late 1960s. I...
April 22, 2021
It’s Beth Allison Barr week at The Anxious Bench, and for good reason. The Making...
April 21, 2021
Today Chris Gehrz and I are collaborating to talk about Vice President Walter F. Mondale,...
April 20, 2021
Chris celebrates the release of Beth Barr's book on "biblical womanhood" by telling the story...
April 19, 2021
Here is a question. What passages in the Bible are deliberately intended to target or...
April 16, 2021
This post offers suggestions for beginning a research project of any kind, and particularly in...
April 15, 2021
It was more than a decade ago, but I still remember that moment vividly. It...
April 14, 2021
“Dr. Barr, I don’t know where to look?!” Twelfth-century columns soared high over our heads,...
April 13, 2021
Chris shares an outtake from his forthcoming religious biography of Charles Lindbergh. (Just be sure...
April 12, 2021
Today is a guest post. My Baylor colleague Elizabeth Flowers has a new co-edited collection...
April 09, 2021
Today I welcome a guest blogpost from Crawford Gribben, who has published extensively on the...
April 07, 2021
This is a lightly revised post from last summer, placed where it belongs, at Eastertide....
April 07, 2021
Wheaton College Wrestles with Its Discourse of Missions
April 06, 2021
Chris explains how the tragic story of an Arctic expedition illustrates why, "for some Westerners...
April 05, 2021
Last week, on one of the holiest days of the Christian year, over 120 families...
April 02, 2021
Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, the Easter Triduum... but for much of Christian history,...
April 01, 2021
I’ve written in this space from time to time on the subject of Christian scholarship,...

March 2021

March 31, 2021
It’s been a long year. Literally. Historians divide eras by cultural moments rather than strict...
March 30, 2021
Chris celebrates the PBS genealogy show, Finding Your Roots, whose host reminds us that the...
March 29, 2021
Tell me how you phrase the question and I will tell you the answer you...
March 27, 2021
Before the Oral Roberts University Golden Eagles play their Sweet Sixteen game against Arkansas, learn...
March 26, 2021
I have a dilemma. I want to rave about a literary work that depends upon...
March 25, 2021
Anthea Butler’s White Evangelical Racism is a tough, hard-hitting book. She pulls no punches. There’s...
March 24, 2021
Is the theologically conservative Reformed wing of evangelicalism going to permanently divide over race and...
March 23, 2021
Why a minor detail in the announcement of Beth Moore leaving the Southern Baptist Convention...
March 22, 2021
God wants you to be temperate but could not possibly expect you to be svelte....
March 20, 2021
Wondering how unusual it is that this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament includes colleges and...
March 19, 2021
This week, Pope Francis approved a document saying that that Catholic priests were not allowed...
March 18, 2021
Earlier this month, Jemar Tisby shared his story of leaving white evangelical spaces with the...
March 17, 2021
In less than 5 weeks,  The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women...
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