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July 2019

July 04, 2019
On the day Americans commemorate their separation from Great Britain, why not spend some time...
July 03, 2019
Historian Skip Elliott contemplates a lifetime of observing prejudices and racism in the United States,...
July 02, 2019
Ahead of America's national holiday, Chris considers the patriotism of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who said...
July 01, 2019
Rachel Held Evans and Marie Kondo, Pete Buttigieg and the National Prayer Breakfast, patriarchy and...
July 01, 2019
Book Review of Daniel Philpott, Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human...

June 2019

June 29, 2019
I'm putting the finishing touches on a history of Plymouth Colony and have been thinking...
June 28, 2019
You might have noticed a recent news story concerning the Amazon Prime series Good Omens,...
June 27, 2019
It has been a tumultuous June in Hong Kong, where a proposed bill that would...
June 26, 2019
I love to study people who don’t fit in boxes. These people explode our assumptions...
June 25, 2019
To this point it’s primarily been mainline denominations like the United Methodist Church and Anabaptist groups...
June 24, 2019
Through writing about church history in many different eras, I have acquired a long standing...
June 23, 2019
I am so pleased to welcome Dr. Melody Maxwell to the Anxious Bench today. Melody's...
June 22, 2019
In 1815, John Quincy Adams purchased six small busts of classical philosophers and poets: Cicero,...
June 21, 2019
Translation is a bugbear of mine. In many types of literature, I don’t worry too...
June 20, 2019
I am used to thinking of the New England colonies as commonwealths, as what Michael...
June 19, 2019
Chuck Redfern: "It’s time for evangelical myth busting. I say that as the not-so-secret secret...
June 18, 2019
Just last week I found myself at the corner of Burrard Street and Nelson Street...
June 17, 2019
For a few years now, Catholic sisters and religiously unaffiliated young-ish people have been finding...
June 15, 2019
The U.S. Constitution mandates a decennial census, used to allocate representatives in the House and...
June 14, 2019
No worthwhile account of American history - or of its religious history - can fail...
June 13, 2019
Today we welcome Josh Parks to the Anxious Bench. A recent graduate of Calvin College...
June 12, 2019
On Sunday, June 2, the world buried Rachel Held Evans. She was 37 years old...
June 11, 2019
I am so pleased to introduce you to my Baylor colleague, Dr. Andrea Turpin. Andrea...
June 10, 2019
I’m wondering when it is possible to argue from silence when reading historical sources, and...
June 07, 2019
This coming Sunday marks the feast of Pentecost. In connection with that, I am posting...
June 06, 2019
Last week, David Garrow published his analysis of a cache of FBI notes about its...
June 05, 2019
David Swartz interviews David King on his new book about World Vision
June 04, 2019
Can evangelicalism be "kinder and gentler"? Chris profiles a prototypical figure of irenic evangelicalism: Carl...
June 03, 2019
Almost exactly 30 years ago in June of 1989, I traveled to Europe for the...

May 2019

May 31, 2019
Christians are required to believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the third...
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