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November 2018

November 13, 2018
Now attending a Lutheran church, Chris has been wondering just how permeable the boundary is...
November 12, 2018
We have heard so much recently about the end of the First World War in...
November 11, 2018
On this 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Chris reflects on the...
November 09, 2018
Did the First World War end too soon? At first sight, such a question might...
November 09, 2018
This is something nobody would expect from me, namely a totally objective and non-partisan comment...
November 08, 2018
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced that the Hill Cumorah Pageant will...
November 07, 2018
As Watergate smolders, a Bible college student proposes an evangelical political party.
November 06, 2018
While the Evangelical Free Church no longer ordains women, two of its founders celebrated the...
November 05, 2018
“A little Puritanism would help us all.” This striking recommendation comes from Commonweal magazine’s Paul...
November 02, 2018
Normally, I’d be overjoyed to receive a bunch of writing commissions from prestigious outlets like...
November 01, 2018
This past weekend, a man entered a Pittsburgh synagogue and massacred 11 people gathered for...

October 2018

October 31, 2018
We carved pumpkins again this year. I still had to clean out the insides, but...
October 30, 2018
On the complicated religious history of the space race: while NASA was "no bastion of...
October 29, 2018
Somewhere over the past twenty years or so, a once-key concept in American history, and...
October 28, 2018
In the wake of yesterday's mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, Chris spent Reformation Sunday...
October 26, 2018
We are presently commemorating the centennial of the end of the First World War, and...
October 25, 2018
A blog post sometimes serves as a forum to try out an idea that is...
October 24, 2018
David Swartz interviews Melani McAlister about her new book
October 23, 2018
Like his hero Charles Lindbergh, astronaut Neil Armstrong defied conventional categories of religious belief and...
October 22, 2018
For pleasure reading, I have lately been dipping into James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson....
October 19, 2018
I recently described the problems that occur in making and understanding social statistics. Now I...
October 18, 2018
Throughout U.S. history, “public charge” rules have been a powerful instrument of excluding immigrants on...
October 17, 2018
The same afternoon Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court, one of my friends sent...
October 16, 2018
Historians often celebrate the value of empathy. But a recent talk about sexual abuse in...
October 15, 2018
Statistics interpret the world we see, and they make the world we know. When we...
October 12, 2018
I write a lot about alternative non-canonical scriptures, and the diverse Christianities they represent. One...
October 11, 2018
I do not attend very many conferences. There are several reasons for this. Mostly, I...
October 10, 2018
Three more reflections from the 2018 meeting of the Conference on Faith and History consider...
October 09, 2018
Days after returning from Grand Rapids, I'm still digesting all the speeches, papers, and conversations...
October 08, 2018
The Puritan logic of the Sabbath does much better than our current advice to guard...
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