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October 2019

October 31, 2019
George Weigel, distinguished senior fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, one of the world’s...
October 30, 2019
I almost didn't write this post. After all, what more could I say? Sarah Bessey already...
October 29, 2019
The psalms, Martin Luther decided, “are not words to hear, but [words] to live.” So...
October 28, 2019
I have posted often on the theme of witchcraft, which is a critical topic for...
October 25, 2019
In the Percy Jackson stories, Western civilization is described as "a collective consciousness that has...
October 24, 2019
Dear John, So I imagine you’ve been caught by surprise at the popularity/notoriety of that...
October 23, 2019
David R. Swartz reflects on last week's announcement about the first nonwhite president of the...
October 22, 2019
The Pew Foundation has just released a significant report concerning the state of American religion....
October 21, 2019
Present day visions of motherhood may feel so askew that we might look in many...
October 18, 2019
I need to declare an interest in what follows. I am writing here about a...
October 17, 2019
He was the first student to ever visit my office. I wasn’t expecting him to...
October 16, 2019
Last week I got an unusual opportunity to live out the tagline of The Anxious...
October 15, 2019
For the second year in a row, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is...
October 14, 2019
I deeply respect my friends who are Biblical literalists, but I do have some quarrels...
October 11, 2019
Aristion was a prestigious and influential figure in the early church, about whom we know...
October 09, 2019
81% of American evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. 81%! For many observers of American religion...
October 09, 2019
A radical political style resurfaces on the evangelical left in its challenge of Trump
October 08, 2019
Reading Harry Potter with his kids has got Chris thinking that history can be almost...
October 07, 2019
Permit me to heartily recommend two scholarly books hot of the press. The first is...
October 04, 2019
I have posted on how the Bible came to take the shape that we know,...
October 03, 2019
In January 2016, Donald Trump claimed that he could stand in the middle of 5th...
October 02, 2019
A student stopped me after class recently. She wanted to know if I listened to...
October 01, 2019
While she drew on many other religious, philosophical, and literary sources for her post-Christian spirituality,...

September 2019

September 30, 2019
This post strays a bit from the main theme of the Anxious Bench in that...
September 27, 2019
Wired magazine recently published an excellent essay that overtly said next to nothing about religion....
September 26, 2019
It's Founder's Day at the Bench. Thomas S. Kidd is James Vardaman Distinguished Professor of History at...
September 25, 2019
David returns to his series on Christians you might not know are pacifists
September 24, 2019
The title track from the current #1 country album — plus a tweet from the...
September 23, 2019
On November 22, 1967, in Decree 4377, the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha declared religion officially...
September 20, 2019
I am struggling with a celebrated New Testament passage, and I’ll use this blogpost as...
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