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May 2017

May 23, 2017
The children's religious book market is booming... so why are there so few good church...
May 22, 2017
[Recently, I gave a talk at Gordon College (where I formerly taught) on commemorating the...
May 21, 2017
Last night’s Dr. Who episode, “Extremis,” presented some vicious media stereotypes of Catholicism… well, no,...
May 19, 2017
In 1915, the Kansas City Star published a short religion column on the theme of...
May 18, 2017
“Christian feminism” is an oxymoron. …and “secular feminism” is a tautology. Yes, there are certainly...
May 17, 2017
My husband recently noted in his facebook series on local church highlights in Waco, TX,...
May 16, 2017
Are we at the end of one era in the history of evangelicalism and the...
May 15, 2017
Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s, many writers have...
May 12, 2017
As I remarked, the early twentieth century was a thrilling time for anyone interested in...
May 11, 2017
Amid the semester's end, the following is adapted and slightly updated from the Anxious Bench archives... One...
May 10, 2017
Guest blogger Andrea Turpin reflects on the value of diversity in Christian higher education, as...
May 09, 2017
Teaching as an act of wonder: wondering at, wondering if, wondering while, wondering with, and...
May 08, 2017
George Saunders's novel Lincoln in the Bardo springs from an actual historical event, but ends up...
May 05, 2017
It is difficult to think of a modern "radical" theory about Christian origins that was...
May 04, 2017
For nearly half a century, American Christians have, to greater and lesser degrees, embraced the...
May 04, 2017
Recently, I was writing about issues of mission, migration and religious change. It occurs to...
May 03, 2017
The verses we emphasize say a lot about what we believe as Christians. So what...
May 02, 2017
Over the weekend I gave the keynote address for the annual Honors Symposium at Crown College,...
May 01, 2017
I posted recently about how people in many (most) societies mix and match different languages,...

April 2017

April 28, 2017
Earlier this year, President Trump complained about the media’s failure to pay due attention to...
April 27, 2017
Most of you have no doubt heard about this spring's Kellerite controversy at Princeton Theological...
April 26, 2017
As evangelicals pay more attention to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, guest blogger Matt Miller reviews a...
April 25, 2017
Although they were infrequent affairs, formal debates between Christians and Jews sometimes took place in...
April 24, 2017
In the middle of World War I, hundreds of thousands of Armenians died in the...
April 21, 2017
I recently had a DNA test to help trace my ancestry, and the result surprised...
April 20, 2017
Last Thursday the United States military dropped a bomb on ISIS targets in eastern Afghanistan....
April 19, 2017
Recently, Karen Swallow Prior spoke out against the "Billy Graham rule"--married men distancing themselves from...
April 18, 2017
The murky history and theological power of one of the most familiar, mundane, and meaningful...
April 17, 2017
I have often posted on themes of history, memory, and forgetting, and some recent news...
April 14, 2017
A spectacular recent find in northern Africa throws new light on early church history, but...
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