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September 2024

September 25, 2024
One of my favorite academic societies, the Conference on Faith and History, holds its biennial...
September 24, 2024
When Pope Francis observed recently that both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are “against life,”...
September 24, 2024
Back in 2020, I met a local politician who asked for my advice about how...
September 20, 2024
I have been preoccupied over the last few months by the subject of tradition in...
September 19, 2024
I have been posting on the religious dimensions of empire in American history, and I...
September 18, 2024
That Anabaptism could turn half a millennium old would have shocked early Anabaptists.
September 17, 2024
We were crammed into a large storage space retrofitted with old couches and Newsboys posters,...
September 13, 2024
She balances her petite frame on a pedestal perched above the altar in a little...
September 12, 2024
I posted last time about the importance of Freemasonry for understanding American history, American empire,...
September 11, 2024
“Since we cannot study the future yet, we need the past to help us see...
September 10, 2024
Writing under the name “William Penn” in 1829, Jeremiah Evarts penned a series of essays...
September 05, 2024
I once sat in a courtroom listening to horrific crimes being read out at an...
September 05, 2024
I have written quite a bit on Freemasonry through the years, including several posts at...
September 03, 2024
"But I’ll tell you what. Growing up in a small town like that, you learn...
September 02, 2024
In a recent, already field-defining, essay in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion,...

August 2024

August 30, 2024
by Janine Giordano Drake I think a lot about the Second Great Awakening. I think...
August 29, 2024
In recent years, American historians have reached a fair consensus that their nation’s history must...
August 28, 2024
It’s time for one of my favorite semesters for books! Every four semesters I teach...
August 27, 2024
In the 1976 presidential election, evangelicals across the political spectrum were determined to vote for...
August 26, 2024
  Last month, Harmeet Dhillon, an Indian American Republican leader and a devout Sikh, recited...
August 23, 2024
In a recent, already field-defining, essay in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion,...
August 22, 2024
I have posted several items on the idea of empire as it applies to American...
August 21, 2024
My conversation with historian Alex Mayfield about Pentecostalism in Hong Kong
August 20, 2024
As teachers prepare for the approaching fall semester, questions surrounding artificial intelligence in the classroom...
August 17, 2024
  “I still do the bulletin.” She was the wife of a retired small-town pastor....
August 16, 2024
While Jesus was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him,...
August 15, 2024
Sometimes you think you know a story very well, and then you come across a...
August 14, 2024
This has been an active summer for me, one that I did not anticipate, and...
August 13, 2024
In the spring semester, I did a bit of research towards a project that while...
August 12, 2024
Americans were expecting this presidential election year to be full of “unprecedented” events, and the...
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