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May 2024

May 11, 2024
When I was a college sophomore, in the spring of 1995, a wave of student-led...
May 10, 2024
The history of failure has always inspired me. My own dissertation was written on the...
May 09, 2024
If you look at the list of books I have published through the years, you...
May 08, 2024
Let me review my last couple of posts. First, I discussed the growing attention among...
May 07, 2024
Maybe let’s just all be a little better about recycling. Also really really listening to...
May 06, 2024
Faithful Learning in Different Institutional Contexts: A Conversation with Allie Roberts Lopez We have been...
May 02, 2024
There are great magisterial scholars who plan out vast multi-volume series on grand topics. Then...
May 01, 2024
Few things challenge our integrity or our comfort, like being called to express our opinion...

April 2024

April 30, 2024
Recently, I wrote a book about poetry. I never intended to. Most of my writing...
April 25, 2024
Much of my work through the years has involved using popular culture as a vehicle...
April 24, 2024
I read with interest fellow Anxious Bencher Jacob Randolph's excellent recent post on the issues...
April 23, 2024
The Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022 was supposed to reduce...
April 22, 2024
  This year marks one hundred years since the passage of the Immigration Act of...
April 21, 2024
I think Taylor Swift, J. J. Abrams, and pre-critical exegesis share something in common. They...
April 20, 2024
Two of the largest Protestant denominations in the US are holding international meetings in April
April 18, 2024
Through the years, I have been much engaged studying the topic of sexual abuse by...
April 17, 2024
A few notes before jumping into this interview, which I am delighted to present to...
April 16, 2024
I have several Bibles on my shelf—some in ancient languages, some translations that I use...
April 15, 2024
Hi! I am a cultural sociologist on a tour of Texas Megachurches. Check out my...
April 12, 2024
Los Reyes Magos, ca. 1875-1900, carved and painted wood with metal and string. Smithsonian American...
April 11, 2024
Britain during the 1960s and 1970s suffered from a Prime Minister named Harold Wilson. Once,...
April 10, 2024
"I distrust folks who have ugly things to say about Karl Barth. I like old...
April 09, 2024
The emergence of mid-twentieth century evangelicalism, often referred to as “New Evangelicalism” or “Neo-Evangelicalism,” created...
April 08, 2024
A month ago on this site, in “The Crisis of the Evangelical Heart” Joey Cochran...
April 05, 2024
This is a click-bait question, but over the last few weeks it is one that...
April 04, 2024
I have a literary dilemma. I want to rave about a piece of writing –...
April 02, 2024
If you’ve been following the news this past week, you’ve likely seen something about the...

March 2024

March 29, 2024
by Janine Giordano Drake When Woodrow Wilson ran for president in 1912, he called himself...
March 28, 2024
A passage in the Alexandrian writer Philo casts a curious light on Christian origins, and...
March 27, 2024
A couple weeks ago I saw the classic 1962 Western The Man Who Shot Liberty...
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