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October 2025

October 23, 2025
As you will know if you have followed these blogposts through the years, I am...
October 22, 2025
There are a lot of stereotypes and caricatures that attach themselves to Pentecostal and Charismatic...
October 21, 2025
Of all the passages of the Gospels, I find Christ’s words in Luke 14 to...
October 16, 2025
Febe Armanios is an impressive scholar of the history of the Middle East, whose wide-ranging...
October 13, 2025
For over ten years my colleague and friend Paul Yandle and I have been comparing...
October 09, 2025
This summer I picked up the book Who is Government? The Untold Story of Public...
October 09, 2025
Another guest blogpost today. By way of introduction, Frieder Ludwig is an outstanding scholar of...
October 08, 2025
We are living at a time period when the rapidity of the daily news, even...
October 07, 2025
It seems seasonally appropriate to start October with a post about a witchcraft trial– particularly...
October 06, 2025
We hear much about Christian nationalism these days, and for good reason. Pastors, pundits, and...
October 02, 2025
We have a guest blog today from my good friend Kevin Barron – more properly,...

September 2025

September 25, 2025
This post grows out of my recent work on the huge vogue in late nineteenth...
September 23, 2025
The ink was scarcely dry on the newly released books lamenting young Americans’ inexorable rejection...
September 22, 2025
On Sunday, September 21, 2025, thousands of people attended the Charlie Kirk Memorial at State...
September 18, 2025
Americans in the 1890s lived in a golden age of utopian and futuristic speculation, and...
September 17, 2025
One of the biggest stories in 20th-century religious history is the rapid rise of Pentecostal...
September 16, 2025
How should we think about our flaws and misbehavior? For some, flaws are something to...
September 12, 2025
Lisa Clark Dillon’s recent post, Teaching History in Hard Times: Denominational Colleges, addressed some things...
September 11, 2025
My current book project concerns America in the 1890s, particularly the religion and spirituality of...
September 10, 2025
"All Jews, Christians and Moslems, the spiritual heirs of those slaves freed from Egyptian bondage,...
September 05, 2025
This week I’m engaging in a time-honored academic tradition: gathering with other scholars as we...
September 04, 2025
My current series of posts concerns what I call the first discovery of lost gospels...
September 02, 2025
Stepping under the 13th-century painted ceiling from the chancel of the church in Ål housed...

August 2025

August 28, 2025
I have been describing the abundant discovery of lost scriptures and gospels from the later...
August 26, 2025
James Dobson's death last week marked the end of a particular era in conservative evangelical...
August 25, 2025
Reformed Evangelical Concerns About Comer Escalate Over a hot summer August weekend in 2025, evangelicals...
August 24, 2025
When I was in college, my Southern Baptist church back home went through a years-long...
August 21, 2025
I have been writing about the modern rediscovery of ancient Jewish and Christian scriptures, including...
August 20, 2025
 [This is the third part in a three-part series that delves into the story of...
August 19, 2025
Who Reads Scripture Better: Scholars or Disciples? Who reads the Scriptures better—Bart Ehrman or my...
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