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December 2019

December 10, 2019
Shirley Hoogstra, president of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, answers questions about Fairness...
December 09, 2019
We may presently be witnessing the death of a nation that has existed for some...
December 06, 2019
I have recently been writing about a truly odd text called the Gospel of Barnabas,...
December 05, 2019
In December of 1620, the Mayflower Pilgrims began to die. Eighteenth-century Boston minister Thomas Prince...
December 04, 2019
How the Rockefeller and Pew oil empires came to repudiate the very source of their...
December 03, 2019
Rather than legitimating support for political leaders by comparing them to biblical kings, Chris suggests...
December 02, 2019
With respect to the mission of a university and the role of theology therein, few...

November 2019

November 30, 2019
The race for Academy Awards has produced a story that, surprisingly, is highly relevant to...
November 29, 2019
A harrowing recent news story offers sobering lessons for how people use the Bible, and...
November 28, 2019
For Thanksgiving, our blogmeister pauses to give thanks for those who write — and read —...
November 28, 2019
Thanksgiving is a good holiday for historians, because it gives us a ready opportunity to...
November 27, 2019
Today I am pleased to welcome Anna Wells to the Anxious Bench. Anna is a second-year...
November 26, 2019
It's the time of year when Salvation Army red kettles are ubiquitous... and the Army...
November 25, 2019
Last time, I looked at the discovery of various kinds of buried treasure. I suggested...
November 22, 2019
So much of what we know about the past – including the early Christian past,...
November 21, 2019
This is a post about the history of evangelicalism. But as with many things these...
November 20, 2019
David Swartz reviews David King's book on World Vision
November 19, 2019
What the books collected in the Lindbergh House tell us about the intellectual world of...
November 18, 2019
Pulitzer-prize winning writer Timothy Egan takes to the road as a pilgrim not because it...
November 15, 2019
I recently posted about the decade of the 2010s that is now so swiftly passing...
November 14, 2019
Among the many memorable and educational things Sesame Street provided me as a preschooler—skills for...
November 13, 2019
Every few years I switch up the readings for my U.S. history survey course. Recently,...
November 12, 2019
Chris recalls how a guitar-slinging Pentecostal gospel singer named Sister Rosetta Tharpe helped develop rock...
November 11, 2019
This blog is unusual in format in that I am not so much making a...
November 08, 2019
In my last post, I discussed the 1888 English novel Robert Elsmere, which was vastly...
November 07, 2019
In Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States during the Second World...
November 06, 2019
Why white evangelicals don't care what Michael Gerson or Peter Wehner say about Trump
November 05, 2019
Guest blogger Barry Hankins argues that "Evangelicals will only recover their witness when they forget...
November 04, 2019
[I do not normally give homilies nor post them as blogs, but seeing that I...
November 01, 2019
I recently posted about The Damnation of Theron Ware,  a classic example of a book...
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