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March 2019

March 14, 2019
From the Anxious Bench archives: When I ask students to read and generate questions about the Gospel...
March 13, 2019
How an activist for suffrage converted to conservative Christian faith
March 12, 2019
What does "render unto Caesar" mean in the Age of Trump? Chris explains why he...
March 11, 2019
(Note: I am currently working on a small-grant application for a new course entitled "Christianity...
March 08, 2019
When I teach my survey of what my university clumsily terms "Religions of the West,"...
March 08, 2019
Recently I talked about Charles Babbage as a pioneer of modern computing, and as someone...
March 07, 2019
In the upper Midwest, Lent is not simply a season for fasting—it’s a season for...
March 06, 2019
In 1976, Elisabeth Elliot published her landmark book Let Me Be A Woman: Notes to My...
March 05, 2019
In 1973 anthropologist Stanley Diamond published a series of essays meant “as a modest antidote...
March 04, 2019
This coming week, we will enter the season of Lent. Thinking about the history of...
March 01, 2019
I wrote recently about the silly contemporary myth that portrays religion, and particularly Christianity, as...

February 2019

February 27, 2019
Recently historians have been debating each other. Actually, this has been going on for quite...
February 27, 2019
In the nineteenth century, our white ancestors took Kanza land. What do we do about...
February 26, 2019
Chris recommends five examples of a medium that helps connect historians to the larger public:...
February 25, 2019
Jonathan Malesic‘s stunning reflection on life with the monks of New Mexico’s Monastery of Christ in...
February 22, 2019
If you shine powerful flashlights into the more benighted corners of university humanities departments, you...
February 21, 2019
This past week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Randal Maurice Jelks, Professor...
February 20, 2019
My husband, however, is definitely right. He suggested I explain two things before I continue...
February 19, 2019
In the 17th century, Galileo argued that faith and science answered different questions using different...
February 18, 2019
I have written a lot through the years about Christian origins and their Jewish background,...
February 15, 2019
I have strong prejudices concerning matters of immigration. I am an immigrant to the US,...
February 14, 2019
Over the past two decades, many public and quasi-private institutions of higher education have stripped...
February 13, 2019
How a Korean Christian's encounter with racial segregation soured him on America
February 12, 2019
Meet Frank Buchman, whose Moral Re-Armament movement was endorsed by political and economic leaders, even...
February 11, 2019
Soon the Dalai Lama will mark his 60th year of exile from China. If you...
February 10, 2019
Horrifying as this morning's report about sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches is, Chris argues...
February 08, 2019
Unless you have been living in a cave, you will undoubtedly have noted the furious...
February 07, 2019
It’s Lunar New Year this week, and across the country, Chinese Americans are ushering in...
February 06, 2019
In July 1934, the deacons met at First Baptist Church Elm Mott, a Southern Baptist...
February 05, 2019
Chris shares five books on black history that he's hoping to read this month.
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