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October 2018

October 05, 2018
I have blogged a great deal on a variety of topics we can loosely call...
October 04, 2018
So, it turns out close to half of all white evangelicals think Brett Kavanaugh should...
October 03, 2018
I teach and research sermons. Two weeks ago, on September 11, I had the privilege...
October 02, 2018
"No one can sing of the free gift of grace like Lina Sandell," said one...
October 01, 2018
This column grows out of my recent series on the city of Ravenna, and its...

September 2018

September 28, 2018
September 29 is the feast of Michael the Archangel, Michaelmas, and the feasts of Gabriel...
September 26, 2018
Partly because they took church discipline so seriously, New England Congregationalists tended to act mercifully...
September 26, 2018
Tara Westover on the context of her family's essential oils business
September 25, 2018
American evangelicals and other Trump supporters have already wasted their "Bonhoeffer moment," argues Chris. But...
September 24, 2018
Amid the welter of truth claims in the modern academy, one towers above all others:...
September 21, 2018
I have been writing about a recent visit to Ravenna, a place that can have...
September 20, 2018
I live in New York City, which is the greatest city in the world, but...
September 19, 2018
I have served on academic faculty since 2003. I have participated in a LOT of...
September 18, 2018
What is now the Mayo Clinic began with a partnership between Protestant doctors and Franciscan...
September 17, 2018
I have been describing the amazing churches and religious buildings of the city of Ravenna....
September 14, 2018
I recently fulfilled a lifetime ambition with a visit to the city of Ravenna, one...
September 12, 2018
The most famous chain of events during what Americans came to call King Philip's War...
September 12, 2018
That evangelicals are pro-family is one of the ironies of American religious history
September 11, 2018
Chris reviews a popular children's collection of biographies that largely neglects the role of religion...
September 10, 2018
Why do we need someone else to tell us who we are? And if we...
September 07, 2018
Some years ago, I wrote a book titled Jesus Wars, about the Christological controversies of...
September 06, 2018
Is evangelicalism a political movement? There’s been a lot of talk about how to define...
September 05, 2018
It is difficult to achieve a full-time faculty appointment in History. A 2017 article in...
September 04, 2018
Since the dawn of aviation, certain pilots have turned to poetry to express the inexpressible...
September 03, 2018
Through authors like C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, fantasy literature has not...
September 02, 2018
Over the weekend, Twitter has hosted a debate about the resurrection — a belief that many...

August 2018

August 31, 2018
In my teenage years, I used to loathe “Back to School” signs in stores. I...
August 30, 2018
John Fea, in what has become a must-read age-of-Trump blog about American religion, quotes from...
August 29, 2018
Franklin Graham, Eric Metaxas, and other court evangelicals remind us of the apocalyptic side of...
August 28, 2018
What does the past smell like? Chris shares a couple of historically evocative aromas from...
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