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June 24, 2024
No, the Humanity of Migrants Is Not a Joke
Over the weekend, while speaking to an audience of American evangelicals associated with the...
June 21, 2024
Adams, MacArthur and Evangelical Denial of Mental Illness
On the eve of mental health awareness month, a clip of John MacArthur made its...
June 20, 2024
Sea Peoples, Goths, and Barbarians
If you study the historical background of the Old Testament, you will very soon come...
June 19, 2024
Princesses and Policemen: Discourses of Human Trafficking
The stories they tell follow a formula that has been produced, reproduced, and adapted by...
June 18, 2024
Do Early Christians Hate the Body?
“Didn’t Augustine have a weird theology of sex?” This question was posed to me by...
June 17, 2024
On Young Evangelicalism’s Diverse Worship Leaders
Hi! I am a cultural sociologist on a tour of Texas Megachurches. Check out my...
June 14, 2024
Going Home: Looking to the Past to Move Forward
I nosed my Camry slowly towards the Palos Verdes Peninsula on a bright afternoon this...
June 13, 2024
Constructing Social Problems: The Second Act?
I have been writing about the sequence of books I had published in an earlier...
June 12, 2024
Saluting the Translators
One of my first public posts ever declared my first experiences of reading literature from...
June 11, 2024
The Danger of Silence About Gaza
A group of Palestinian kids in Gaza huddles around a phone screen. Their beaming smiles...
June 10, 2024
Donald Trump’s Conviction and Historical Turning Points
Donald Trump's May 30th conviction by a jury of his peers on 34 felony counts...
June 07, 2024
Memory Loss, Identity, and Whether History Matters
Memory Loss, Identity, and Whether History Matters My mother was diagnosed with memory problems in...
June 06, 2024
Clergy Sexual Abuse and American Catholic History
I have been describing my work on social problems and nightmares, and how that approach...
June 05, 2024
Exvangelicals and Evangelicals: Reviewing McCammon & Alberta
Last month, I read two recently-released books grappling with trends within evangelicalism: Sarah McCammon’s The...
June 04, 2024
Swimsuits, Stones, and Shepherds: Patristic Takes on Modesty
Summer. The time of year for slower days, sunshine, summer camps, outdoor adventures, and… the...
June 03, 2024
Hallowed Be Thy Name: Your President Is Not Jesus
Today’s post is a little bit angry so be forewarned. I guess I have a...
June 01, 2024
The Evangelical Response to the Trump Verdict
Since the rule of law was upheld in the courts of New York on Thursday,...
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May 31, 2024
Reckoning with the Cost of Free Land
by Janine Giordano Drake Last November, I had the chance to visit the National Archives...
May 30, 2024
Social Nightmares and the History of American Religion
Recently I described the quite extensive work I had undertaken at an earlier phase of...
May 29, 2024
Forgetting Martha Stearns Marshall: Women’s Roles in the SBC
I am delighted to share this guest post on Southern Baptist (SBC) women by Jordann...
May 28, 2024
A “Just Peace” for Both Israel and the Palestinians
Christians didn’t have to wait until the latest round of campus protests against Israel to...
May 27, 2024
How Important Are Birthdays Anyway?
Today is my birthday. As a religion scholar, I've long been fascinated by the...
May 23, 2024
On Being a Public Intellectual, Lord Help Us
The posts I am offering right now don’t exactly constitute “autobiography,” but think of them...
May 22, 2024
Why is Christianity Today rankled by Taylor Swift?
(This month, I am taking a short break from my megachurch visits series.) Over at...
May 21, 2024
They Said What Now? On Vaguely Defined Theological Language
Throughout my systematic theology class this semester, I ushered students into the painful process of...
May 17, 2024
Teaching Latin American History via Historical Fiction
One afternoon in early November 1519, a Mexica youth named Mitzli, son of a skilled...
May 16, 2024
To What Green Altar?
I have been writing about my writing, or rather about the topics on which I...
May 15, 2024
Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing: A Parable and a Provocation
“If you converse with these missionaries of Christian civilization, you will be surprised to…meet a...
May 14, 2024
And Come to the Defense of Those Targeted
Christian leaders and institutions must come to the defense of those targeted by white Christian...
May 13, 2024
The Fate of Humanities at a Lutheran University
Save the Humanities at Valparaiso University Valparaiso University, where I teach, has been doing some...
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