Archive Index - Anxious Bench

November 30, 2016

Every Christmas in the yard of a house not far from us stands a manger...

November 29, 2016

While 2016 has one more month, the Christian calendar has already entered its new year.

November 28, 2016

In recent columns, I looked at what happened to a religion heavily focused on hierarchy...

November 27, 2016

After literally decades of planning and delay, Martin Scorsese has finally released his film of...

November 25, 2016

I have been posting about a source on religion in Wales around 1715 , which...

November 24, 2016

In Augustine's Confessions, at the end of a discussion of infancy and childhood, there is...

November 23, 2016

Around eighteen years ago, my wife and I drove out into the countryside beyond Louisville...

November 22, 2016

In the wake of a divisive election, we should revisit Abraham Lincoln's original 1863 proclamation...

November 21, 2016

For a "think tank" of sorts, I find myself writing a white paper on education...

November 18, 2016

Western Protestants are familiar with the idea of Christianity as a faith of the book,...

November 17, 2016

As the reality of Hillary Clinton’s unexpected defeat sinks in, as pundits jockey to offer...

November 16, 2016

In Eastcheap, near Fenchurch St. in London, stands the medieval church of St. Margaret Pattens....

November 15, 2016

While some of my colleagues here have written excellent examples of the genre, I've never...

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