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September 2019

September 20, 2019
I am struggling with a celebrated New Testament passage, and I’ll use this blogpost as...
September 19, 2019
In the past two years, the Trump administration has pushed aggressively for restrictive refugee policies....
September 18, 2019
Suffragists fascinate me. I have always been impressed by their steadfast commitment to political equality...
September 17, 2019
A recent visit to a museum on an Ojibwe reservation got Chris thinking about how...
September 16, 2019
Not for the first time, I am thinking about gospels, and specifically the four gospels....
September 13, 2019
In my last column, I discussed how shifting perceptions of death contributed to weakening traditional...
September 12, 2019
Today I discuss Darren Dochuk's recently published Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made...
September 11, 2019
A short spiritual biography of a Hollywood celebrity
September 10, 2019
Chris tells the story of Minnesota's "sky pilots" — itinerant preachers whose ministry to lumberjacks in...
September 09, 2019
Funny--our realtor did not point out the nudist camp around the corner from our new...
September 06, 2019
Whenever I taught my long-running course on World Religions, I would always greet my students...
September 05, 2019
It’s been a difficult stretch for traditional Christian sexual morality. Values once held dear are...
September 04, 2019
I am so pleased to welcome back Lynneth Miller Renberg. Lynneth is an assistant professor of history...
September 03, 2019
Chris talks to journalist-pastor Angela Denker about her new book, based on extensive interviews with...
September 02, 2019
This is the voice of historical memory speaking, through the channel of Professor Jenkins. Last...

August 2019

August 30, 2019
For some thirty years, I have written and taught about the topic of terrorism, including...
August 29, 2019
As a teenager, I twice went to Young Life's Saranac Lake summer camp. These were...
August 28, 2019
How a conservative missionary came to question the American missionary enterprise
August 27, 2019
By abrogating the constitutional provisions that granted the state of Kashmir a measure of autonomy,...
August 26, 2019
On the 45th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's death, Chris considers what the pilot's last days...
August 23, 2019
When I am in conversations about American religious history – and specifically issues concerning teaching...
August 22, 2019
When I was conducting oral history interviews for my current book project about Hmong refugee...
August 21, 2019
I am obsessed with habits. Particularly the spiritual formation potential of habits. I don’t remember...
August 20, 2019
Though mainline Protestants are often seen as theologically and politically progressive, many of those Lutherans,...
August 19, 2019
Although I have some reputation in the academic world, my real glory and fame stem...
August 16, 2019
I suggested that witchcraft beliefs were actually much slower to decline in the West than...
August 14, 2019
Several years ago, I wrote a post about the way that early modern Christians understood...
August 14, 2019
David interviews his mother Phyllis Miller Swartz about her just-released memoir
August 13, 2019
Chris finds that a recent book helps bring to life not just the history of...
August 12, 2019
Sedona, Arizona, is full of vortexes, as they call them locally, spots where the earth...
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