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March 2024

March 26, 2024
When even the most conservative of American evangelicals started drinking alcohol, they lost their movement’s...
March 25, 2024
When I was doing the research for my book about Hmong refugee resettlement in the...
March 21, 2024
This coming weekend we celebrate Palm Sunday, the dramatic events that mark the beginning of...
March 20, 2024
“You should always be proud of being an Indian. But never tell anyone.” This was...
March 19, 2024
The Council of Chalcedon is famously the standard of Christological orthodoxy. The definition put forth...
March 18, 2024
Hi! I am a cultural sociologist on a tour of Texas Megachurches. Check out my...
March 17, 2024
Evangelicals in the States like to have the Reformers and Puritans on their side. However,...
March 15, 2024
During Covid, when churches across the country moved their services outside, some might have considered...
March 14, 2024
The new issue of the Atlantic has a fine piece on a topic that has...
March 13, 2024
I have heard the name Wendell Berry for years, but I have never made the...
March 12, 2024
We have a crisis on our hands, and it is the crisis of the evangelical...
March 11, 2024
When Pope Francis named the Armenian monk Gregory of Narek (c. 951-1003) the thirty-sixth universal...
March 08, 2024
In 1789 a sailor who had been enslaved, bought his freedom, and become part of...
March 07, 2024
This post concerns a prayer of which I am fond, and which should be better...
March 06, 2024
Unlike a number of my colleagues at the Anxious Bench, I’m not currently a professor....
March 05, 2024
Framed as just another part of the long and interesting reign of Margrete I, the...
March 04, 2024
Several weeks ago, while browsing at my local public library, I came across Rosaria Butterfield’s...

February 2024

February 29, 2024
I recently posted about the superb new Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity (henceforward CHAC), edited...
February 28, 2024
I don’t often think about Marabel Morgan, but when I do, it’s while watching the...
February 27, 2024
When Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla said on MSNBC last week that what “unites” all Christian...
February 26, 2024
In recent years, the role of Christianity in the development of American empire has received...
February 24, 2024
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Christianity Today have a history together. Founded...
February 23, 2024
I have been reading Matthew Barrett’s The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic,...
February 22, 2024
Back in my student days, I read a book that did a lot to shape...
February 21, 2024
“You need a language with which to express things, which at a certain age you...
February 20, 2024
I find artistic depictions of Christ to be fascinating, not only because they reveal truths...
February 20, 2024
Hi! I am a cultural sociologist searching out Christian Nationalism in Texas Megachurches. I’m looking...
February 17, 2024
I learned early on as the child of American missionaries in Kenya that white people...
February 16, 2024
Guadalupe and the Flower World Prophecy: Did an Ancient Indigenous Tradition Prepare the Americas for...
February 15, 2024
Almost as soon as the new United States was created, it began expanding its imperial...
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