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April 2019

April 24, 2019
A New York Times report earlier this year on trends of stylish Brooklyn moms put...
April 23, 2019
Chris proposes that we might better understand the purpose of the Christian liberal arts if...
April 22, 2019
Pence's invitation to speak at Taylor University's commencement reveals an evangelical populism that has been...
April 20, 2019
In part because the gospel accounts have so little to say about Holy Saturday, in...
April 19, 2019
The final chapter of John’s gospel reports the risen Christ meeting his disciples at the...
April 18, 2019
On Sunday, Pete Buttigieg made it official. He’s running for president, because he wants “to...
April 17, 2019
As Christians prepare for Good Friday, Chris considers how the Crucifixion helped Europeans make meaning...
April 16, 2019
"a fire burnt the whole parish of St. Alkmund's starting at daybreak on the eve...
April 15, 2019
In this Easter season, I will be thinking a lot about coal fires, anthrax, and...
April 12, 2019
I have a literary dilemma. I want to rave about a piece of writing –...
April 11, 2019
"American religious history is women's history," Ann Braude argued in an essay published nearly two...
April 10, 2019
Prayers shaping politics--or politics shaping prayer?
April 09, 2019
Chris recommends an article surveying the religious history of the early Internet: both how Christian...
April 08, 2019
1965 represents a major turning point in American religious history. The Immigration and Nationality Act...
April 05, 2019
A passage in the Alexandrian writer Philo casts a curious light on Christian origins, and...
April 04, 2019
Last month marked the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the four-month, student-led strike at...
April 03, 2019
Cancer is terrible. It steals life. We have so many more treatment options available now...
April 02, 2019
Founder of an intentional, interracial Christian community called Koinonia Farm, Clarence Jordan both challenged Southern...
April 01, 2019
Just suppose you had to choose the single motion picture that dealt most seriously and...

March 2019

March 29, 2019
The idea for this post came from my genuine surprise at reading a passage by...
March 28, 2019
  Many journalists and scholars snickered a bit last year when President Russell M. Nelson...
March 27, 2019
The second in a two-part series on Christabel Pankhurst, a fundamentalist feminist
March 26, 2019
Why should scholars take the time to blog or podcast, knowing that they're likely to...
March 25, 2019
The New York Times recently profiled Jonathan Cahn, celebrity New Jersey pastor who interprets the Bible to explain—nay, predict—signs...
March 22, 2019
However strange this may sound, I am ever more struck by the central and continuing...
March 21, 2019
Today we welcome Mary Li Ma to the Anxious Bench. A research scholar, mission consultant,...
March 20, 2019
I usually never read comments on my blogs, much less respond to them. But one...
March 19, 2019
What should we make of the atrocities committed by American soldiers against Japanese, Italian, and...
March 18, 2019
For multiple reasons, I am not a particular fan of Bill Clinton. But one speech...
March 15, 2019
ADDENDUM: I must report a ghastly synchronicity. This post concerns a historical theme that is...
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