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May 2019

May 30, 2019
  Yesterday, the trial began for Dr. Scott Warren, a geographer and volunteer with the...
May 29, 2019
Like what you've read from us on Anxious Bench? Here's where you can find us...
May 29, 2019
In fifteenth-century England, a (probably Franciscan) friar lived on the east coast near the cathedral...
May 28, 2019
Chris considers what fighting in NHL hockey has to do with the future of evangelicalism.
May 27, 2019
I have been posting a lot in recent weeks on Christ’s Resurrection, a topic that...
May 25, 2019
Today we are so pleased to welcome Otis Pickett, an Assistant Professor of History at...
May 24, 2019
I have a literary discovery to report, and I think I can claim a first...
May 23, 2019
A few weeks ago, I suggested that the "myth" of puritan intolerance is "not very...
May 22, 2019
David Swartz interviews David Kirkpatrick about his new book on the Latin American evangelical left.
May 21, 2019
As news spread of Rachel Held Evans’s death, one quote continued to pop up in...
May 20, 2019
Someday, soon perhaps, the Juul e-cigarette will pass into the heap of cast-off youth fads and...
May 17, 2019
Not long ago, I posted about the Book of Acts, suggesting that some very early...
May 16, 2019
Chris writes his first letter to a member of the U.S. Congress.
May 15, 2019
In 215 B.C., a defeated and cash-strapped Rome passed a new law. The context was...
May 14, 2019
About a month after the fire that nearly destroyed Paris' Notre-Dame cathedral, it's clear that...
May 13, 2019
Early Christians believed that Jesus had predicted his Resurrection, and associated that event with the...
May 11, 2019
My phone buzzed. I glanced quickly, then my brain clicked. I turned the car off...
May 10, 2019
I have been posting about the passage in the last chapter of John’s Gospel in...
May 09, 2019
In a convoluted New York Times op-ed published this past Tuesday, Margaret Renkl argued against...
May 08, 2019
David R. Swartz interviews David Kirkpatrick about his new book "A Gospel for the Poor"
May 07, 2019
One of our resident Trekkies examines the complicated relationship between religion and the science fiction...
May 06, 2019
The state of Qatar, which protrudes into the Persian Gulf with Saudi Arabia to its...
May 04, 2019
Kristin, Beth, and Chris pay tribute to writer Rachel Held Evans, who died this morning...
May 03, 2019
I have been thinking about how Paul’s letters came to be collected and remembered. If...
May 02, 2019
This past weekend, nearly 2,000 people made the annual pilgrimage to Manzanar, one of the...
May 01, 2019
  This is revised from my Ancient Bench archives. I wanted to post it again,...

April 2019

April 30, 2019
Citing a changed name for Fort Snelling, Minnesota legislators recently voted to slash the budget...
April 29, 2019
I have been writing about different traditions of the Resurrection and what I understand to...
April 26, 2019
A golden rule when reading the New York Times is never to be shocked by...
April 25, 2019
Puritan New England's reputation for rigidity and intolerance goes back almost all the way to...
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