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August 2019

August 09, 2019
I have two themes today: one about the history of witchcraft; and another about an...
August 08, 2019
Today we welcome Otis W. Pickett and his colleague Brian Franklin as they share their...
August 07, 2019
A country church burned to the ground last week.  Flames billowed over its wooden spires in...
August 06, 2019
How Baptists, Lutherans, Quakers, and other Christians are drawing on American religious history to make...
August 05, 2019
Actually seeing a new book in print is a nerve-racking experience. Dare you open it,...
August 02, 2019
I have been posting about apostasy in a Christian context, and how some believers maintained...
August 01, 2019
All four of the New Testament gospels include the story of Peter's denial of Jesus....

July 2019

July 31, 2019
Another story from Asia in which evangelicals sing Hallelujah in protest of totalitarian regimes
July 30, 2019
Guest blogger Emily Wenneborg considers how "old hymns and the history of Christianity can work...
July 29, 2019
Almost anything by Robert Wilken is worth reading. I have benefitted immensely from his The...
July 26, 2019
I recently wrote about Nicodemism, the Reformation and Early Modern practice of keeping one’s real...
July 25, 2019
Today we welcome Monica L. Mercado to the Anxious Bench. Monica is Assistant Professor of History at Colgate...
July 24, 2019
I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but shortly after I began teaching American history,...
July 23, 2019
Check out a map of our most recent and popular blog posts! You might find...
July 22, 2019
Call it a guilty secret of Christian history: a secret about secrecy. As I have...
July 21, 2019
Are food photos on Instagram a kind of mealtime prayer? Chris thinks about the meaning...
July 19, 2019
People often change their religious identity, shifting from one faith or denomination to another. They...
July 18, 2019
Every so often, I remind myself that academia (at least in the discipline of History)...
July 17, 2019
In this collection of personal narratives, forty Jews of diverse backgrounds tell a wide range...
July 16, 2019
Fifty years after Apollo 11 began its historic journey to the surface of the moon,...
July 15, 2019
Not much more needs to be said on the conflict between Oberlin College and Gibson’s...
July 13, 2019
When I read the excellent reviews offered by the Wall Street Journal, I always enjoy...
July 12, 2019
Last time I talked about the second century philosopher Peregrinus, whom we know who went...
July 11, 2019
Today we welcome Hilde Løvdal Stephens to the Anxious Bench. Hilde is a Visiting Associate Professor...
July 10, 2019
I am so happy to have a post today from one of my favorite graduate...
July 09, 2019
David Blight's biography of Frederick Douglass inspires Chris to consider the history of self-taught Americans.
July 08, 2019
I posted recently on the subject of apostasy, abandoning the faith, or defecting from it....
July 06, 2019
Beth's and Chris' parents share reflections on visiting world war battlefields in Flanders, the Somme,...
July 05, 2019
I have been posting about apostasy, the act of deserting a faith, whether voluntarily or...
July 04, 2019
On the day Americans commemorate their separation from Great Britain, why not spend some time...
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