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August 2020

August 03, 2020
I am going to address a really sensitive issue involving the question of how and...

July 2020

July 31, 2020
Turkey’s government looks set to turn the great former church of Hagia Sophia from a...
July 29, 2020
On July 24, 2020, Muslims held Friday prayers in the nave of Hagia Sophia for...
July 29, 2020
In the 1990s Harold Caballeros was minister of a church of 350 members in Guatemala...
July 28, 2020
Chris previews a new devotional he edited with Beth, in which Anxious Bench members and...
July 27, 2020
Among the many fascinating cultural phenomena of the Covid-19 pandemic, the most intriguing to me...
July 24, 2020
American Christians often display the phrase WWJD? or “What Would Jesus Do?” This challenging question...
July 23, 2020
Today we welcome Abram Van Engen to the Anxious Bench. Abram is Associate Professor of English...
July 22, 2020
In the classic romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally, Harry famously asserted, “Men and women...
July 21, 2020
Reading Daniel Immerwahr's impressive history of the "Greater United States" made Chris rethink American empire...
July 20, 2020
SPOILER ALERT: Despite my title, this blogpost is not about the modern-day Baptist denomination. These...
July 17, 2020
I have been posting about using poetry as a resource for studying and teaching American...
July 15, 2020
This summer I’m teaching a course on the Bible as Literature. Once in a while,...
July 15, 2020
Monuments to flawed heroes of the past are spiritually dangerous – but removing them may...
July 14, 2020
Kristin's new book on militant masculinity has Chris rethinking his evangelical heritage.
July 13, 2020
What is school for? To answer that question Massachusetts Bay colonists invoked the devil. The...
July 10, 2020
Historians can use American poetry as valuable primary sources, not least to illustrate nineteenth century...
July 09, 2020
A couple weeks back, evangelical Twitter erupted with the drama unfolding around Aimee Byrd and...
July 08, 2020
Racism wasn’t a word I knew as a child. Yet racism churned all around me....
July 07, 2020
Guest blogger Benji Rolsky reviews a new book on the Religious Left.
July 06, 2020
I have been posting on how historians can use American poetry as valuable primary sources,...
July 03, 2020
I am happy to announce the publication of my new book, Fertility and Faith: The...
July 02, 2020
Religious conservatives have been cheering some recent Supreme Court decisions and are feeling less cheery...
July 01, 2020
Justin Vos continues what is becoming an Anxious Bench series on Dutch Calvinist intellectual thought

June 2020

June 30, 2020
I was about to start this post with the phrase, "As usual," since I habitually...
June 29, 2020
On April 10, the Wall Street Journal reported on the digging of mass graves on...
June 26, 2020
I have been posting about how American poetry can serve as a rich primary source...
June 25, 2020
As an Asian American who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, I don’t remember...
June 24, 2020
This week most major Texas cities implemented ordinances requiring masking in public. My germaphobic Texan...
June 23, 2020
Today I'm delighted to introduce the newest member of The Anxious Bench: Daniel K. Williams teaches American history...
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