Charles Lindbergh

April 2022

April 19, 2022
Chris considers another analogy between WWII and the war in Ukraine: how the arguments made...

January 2022

January 04, 2022
“Why should we read — and write — biographies?” It seemed like a good question...

August 2021

August 17, 2021
Chris has a new book out today... but realized that "thinking of this book as...
August 10, 2021
When the United States entered World War I, reports Chris, it wasn't just German Americans...
August 03, 2021
Chris found it easy to forget that competition derives from a Latin term for "striving...

May 2021

May 18, 2021
A paragraph about abortion in his new book made Chris think of a chapter about...

April 2021

April 13, 2021
Chris shares an outtake from his forthcoming religious biography of Charles Lindbergh. (Just be sure...

January 2021

January 25, 2021
Chris tells the story of the ASV, the Bible that was "common among mainline Protestants......
January 05, 2021
“All my writing—and yours,” claimed one composition instructor, “is autobiography.” So I've often wondered the...

November 2020

November 11, 2020
Among the many reasons to be bothered by Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud,...

September 2020

September 08, 2020
Now that Chris' spiritual biography of Charles Lindbergh is nearing publication, he looks back at...

November 2019

November 19, 2019
What the books collected in the Lindbergh House tell us about the intellectual world of...

October 2019

October 01, 2019
While she drew on many other religious, philosophical, and literary sources for her post-Christian spirituality,...

August 2019

August 26, 2019
On the 45th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's death, Chris considers what the pilot's last days...

July 2019

July 16, 2019
Fifty years after Apollo 11 began its historic journey to the surface of the moon,...

April 2019

April 09, 2019
Chris recommends an article surveying the religious history of the early Internet: both how Christian...

March 2019

March 19, 2019
What should we make of the atrocities committed by American soldiers against Japanese, Italian, and...
March 05, 2019
In 1973 anthropologist Stanley Diamond published a series of essays meant “as a modest antidote...

February 2019

February 12, 2019
Meet Frank Buchman, whose Moral Re-Armament movement was endorsed by political and economic leaders, even...

October 2018

October 30, 2018
On the complicated religious history of the space race: while NASA was "no bastion of...
October 23, 2018
Like his hero Charles Lindbergh, astronaut Neil Armstrong defied conventional categories of religious belief and...

August 2018

August 15, 2018
In light of yet more abuse scandals in different churches, Chris wrestles with the costs...

July 2018

July 10, 2018
While evangelicals rarely perceive Christian influences on the New Deal, a recent religious biography argues...
July 03, 2018
Nowadays, we tend to associate the notion of the United States as a “Christian nation”...

May 2018

May 29, 2018
A week after Philip Roth died, Chris considers his novel, The Plot Against America, in...
May 15, 2018
The same year that Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic, an Australian Presbyterian and a...

March 2018

March 06, 2018
In the first decades of the 20th century, many Americans embraced aviation with religious enthusiasm,...

October 2017

October 03, 2017
As he begins work on a spiritual biography of Charles Lindbergh, Chris wrestles with one...

July 2017

July 11, 2017
How did Christians respond to the advent of Charles Lindbergh, called "the New Christ" by...

June 2017

June 27, 2017
Christians debated how to respond to Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. To...
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