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May 2020

May 13, 2020
As our series of non-religious turning points in religious history continues into the 20th century,...
May 12, 2020
Time will tell if COVID-19 produces lasting changes in Christianity and other faiths, but religious...
May 11, 2020
An important new book explores the intersection between politics, religion, and media in modern US...
May 08, 2020
How do we remember World War II, on this 75th anniversary of V-E Day? If...
May 08, 2020
Here is a book that I look forward to reading but have not yet cracked...
May 07, 2020
“What became of the ten tribes of Israel,” asked former Mayflower passenger Edward Winslow, “when...
May 06, 2020
David interviews Lauren Turek on her new book about evangelicals and human rights
May 05, 2020
Do you want your kids to study history while they're home from school? Chris asked...
May 04, 2020
In the conclusion of a forthcoming book, The Faiths of Others: A History of Interreligious...
May 01, 2020
Most modern readers find it hard to identify with ancient or medieval saints’ lives, written...

April 2020

April 30, 2020
Earlier this month, Fr. Lawrence Lucas, author of Black Priest, White Church and a prominent...
April 29, 2020
For 9 years now, nearly every semester I have taught a survey course on the...
April 28, 2020
By Elesha Coffman, Baylor University In this semester of Coronavirus, we professors who are accustomed...
April 27, 2020
Plenty of Christians (and Jews) are asking a question right now: given our current crisis,...
April 24, 2020
Like many of us, I am thinking a great deal right now about the impact...
April 23, 2020
From the Anxious Bench archives: From 1560 until well into the seventeenth century, the Geneva...
April 22, 2020
During a hard week for his university, Chris thinks ahead to how two of his...
April 21, 2020
Like many others during the COVID-19 pandemic, Chris has found himself baking bread — and thinking...
April 20, 2020
A Review of Alexander Norman, The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt,...
April 17, 2020
Some twenty years ago, I was working on the writer Charles Brockden Brown, the first...
April 16, 2020
Why astronauts had trouble seeing God in outer space
April 15, 2020
Back when work clothes were still necessary for work and academics were doing normal academic...
April 15, 2020
This is from my Anxious Bench archives and is a placeholder until my post goes...
April 14, 2020
As we look forward to the day when there's a coronavirus vaccine, Chris considers the...
April 13, 2020
This Easter time of year, we often hear the story of the journey to Emmaus,...
April 11, 2020
Many of us are yearning to "return to normal," as Americans tried to do a...
April 10, 2020
Easter is a time for sober reflection on matters of death and Resurrection, and not,...
April 09, 2020
Spanish Flu. SARS, MERS. Bubonic plague, if one wants to reach for a more distant...
April 08, 2020
Guest blogger Jackie Den Hartog reflects on quarantining with children
April 07, 2020
In the 18th century, few families escaped death at the hand of infectious diseases, not...
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