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October 2017

October 31, 2017
On this 500th anniversary of Luther's 95 Theses... some of the best Anxious Bench writing...
October 31, 2017
That many people can’t remember what the Protestant Reformation was all about might not please...
October 30, 2017
I recently posted on the question of Christian numbers around 200 AD. Since then, I...
October 27, 2017
The 500th anniversary of the Reformation offers plenty of opportunity to commemorate, but also to...
October 25, 2017
More than a half-century ago, the great church historian Jaroslav Pelikan described the Reformation as...
October 25, 2017
Reflections on evil and the Holocaust
October 24, 2017
How should we remember the Protestant Reformation?
October 23, 2017
Saints are not to be idolized, obviously, but nor are they supposed to be milked...
October 20, 2017
I recently discovered a new word that will be really useful for me in writing...
October 19, 2017
Female “purity” was highly prized in Victorian Christianity, but a sexual double standard let men...
October 18, 2017
"Water You turned into wine; Opened the eyes of the blind; There's no one like...
October 17, 2017
With the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's 95 Theses at hand, Chris looks back to...
October 16, 2017
Sometimes, scholarship from one era of history can throw quite unexpected light on a totally...
October 13, 2017
My church recently sang one of my favorite hymns, a hugely popular standard piece known...
October 12, 2017
Each semester, I teach an introductory course on what my department not very accurately terms...
October 11, 2017
Reflections on my grandma and Colin Kaepernick's encounter with civil religion
October 10, 2017
Chris and his young son test out a new Reformation board game, with amusing results.
October 09, 2017
A book review of mine on Mark Lilla's The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction (New...
October 06, 2017
I have now watched the whole of the PBS documentary series on The Vietnam War....
October 05, 2017
It was the morning of October 16, 1893. The day dawned bright and frosty, and...
October 04, 2017
Last Friday, 29 September 2017, we lost another World War II veteran. Out of the...
October 03, 2017
As he begins work on a spiritual biography of Charles Lindbergh, Chris wrestles with one...
October 02, 2017
I recently spoke at an excellent conference held at Hong Kong Baptist University, on the...

September 2017

September 29, 2017
"In the West ... early Christianity has lost its history." That powerful statement demands some...
September 28, 2017
What happens when a religious establishment implodes? In his magisterial Darkness Falls on the Land...
September 27, 2017
How evangelical individualism justifies the use of torture
September 26, 2017
Controversy is nothing new to America's national anthem. Historically, Christians have been among its staunchest...
September 25, 2017
The first time it happened I thought it was a fluke, a funny self-referential New...
September 22, 2017
Just how many Christians were there in AD 200?
September 21, 2017
This post originally appeared at Historical Horizons, but like pumpkin spice lattes, it keeps coming...
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