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February 2020

February 26, 2020
When a moment of women’s empowerment reasserts sexual norms in the end
February 25, 2020
College closures have long been part of the story of American higher education. But recent...
February 24, 2020
To think well and wisely about tradition, there are, to be sure, many sources. One...
February 21, 2020
I have blogged quite a lot about the relationship between demographics – specifically, fertility rates...
February 20, 2020
  This year’s Super Bowl halftime show sparked outrage among a contingent of American Christians....
February 19, 2020
The chair scraped next to me. It was 2:30 on Friday afternoon—time for our scheduled...
February 18, 2020
Chris talks to his colleague Annie Berglund about animal ethics, a topic she explores in...
February 17, 2020
I am presently teaching a graduate course at Baylor on Global/World Christianity. My aim in...
February 14, 2020
Look at this figure, and tell me what it is, and where it is. The...
February 13, 2020
Today The Anxious Bench welcomes Erik R. Seeman, Professor of History at the University at...
February 12, 2020
The missionaries who spied for the United States
February 11, 2020
According to the General Social Survey, not just evangelicals but growing numbers of Catholics and...
February 10, 2020
"I love to look at the work of God. I love to see the work...
February 07, 2020
Based on long study of Christian history, I offer a couple of strictly non-scientific impressions...
February 06, 2020
The most important moment of Senator Mitt Romney’s speech yesterday was when he wasn’t actually...
February 05, 2020
I am not a Methodist—well, not anymore. I grew up in the United Methodist Church...
February 04, 2020
In the mid-19th century, Minnesota was part of the American frontier — and the destination...
February 03, 2020
Last year, I wrote several post about the relationship between Judaism and Hellenism, the issue...

January 2020

January 31, 2020
Through the years, I have worked on a lot of different topics. Last time, I...
January 30, 2020
Who are evangelicals? How did the meaning of evangelicalism take shape over the course of...
January 29, 2020
Fifty years after the latinization of Latin America Mission, attempts to implement the insights of...
January 28, 2020
Chris investigates the unlikely history of a much loved children's hymn.
January 27, 2020
The nineteenth-century Catholic theologian John Henry Newman was recently canonized by Pope Francis. Newman is...
January 24, 2020
This post is about the process of writing, and about gradually finding out what exactly...
January 23, 2020
Last week, journalist Sarah McClure published an investigative report in Cosmopolitan—yes, Cosmopolitan—on the prevalence of...
January 22, 2020
This is from my Anxious Bench archives. I am working hard on book chapters, but...
January 21, 2020
Given current trends, mainline denominations may virtually disappear by the year 2050. If so, Chris...
January 20, 2020
The Economist just published an article that on its surface said nothing about religion or...
January 17, 2020
I have written a lot related to the centennial of the First World War. One...
January 15, 2020
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Arthur Miller firmly tethered puritan to hypocrisy, self-righteousness, prudery, and the irrational...
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