Hillary Clinton’s Spiritual Stamina
As the reality of Hillary Clinton’s unexpected defeat sinks in, as pundits jockey to offer the definitive postmortem and journalists attempt to decipher what, precisely, an impending Trump presidency...
View ArticleThe Crisis of Corporate Evangelicalism (Part 7 – a glimpse at the future?)
What does the future hold for corporate evangelicalism?
View ArticleFear No Evil: Christian Witness in a Time of Darkness
A truck plows into crowds at a Berlin Christmas market. Heart-wrenching images from Aleppo disquiet us on a daily basis. A young white man is convicted in the horrific killing of nine African American...
View ArticleMandates from the Masses and the Call to Courageous Christian Scholarship
Today’s guest post comes to us from Scott Culpepper, Associate Professor of History at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. Culpepper teaches courses on the early modern Atlantic World and Religion in...
View ArticlePraying for the Best and Preparing for the Worst
Today we welcome Jonathan Couser to the Anxious Bench. Jonathan received an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School and a PhD in Medieval History from the University of Notre Dame. He teaches history at...
View ArticleHeroes of the Faith: True, but not Accurate
Today at the Anxious Bench we welcome Bruce Berglund, professor of history at Calvin College. He is co-editor of the collection of essays, Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe. His book Castle...
View ArticleStill Searching for Christian America
“At times of crisis it is a natural human reaction to turn to the past for support.”[1] These words were written by evangelicals, to evangelicals. In 1983. Wait—1983? But Ronald Reagan was president at...
View ArticleA Golden Age for Christian Colleges?
Are Christian colleges uniquely positioned to revitalize our nation’s intellectual life and contribute to cultural bridge-building in this era of political and social polarization? If you ask Christian...
View ArticleIs Complementarian Theology Abusive to Women?
As you may have heard, Princeton Seminary decided to award Tim Keller the prestigious Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Witness. But then it revoked that honor after an...
View ArticleFairness for All: A Call for Culture Peacemakers?
For nearly half a century, American Christians have, to greater and lesser degrees, embraced the role of culture warriors. As evangelicals began to stake a claim on American culture and politics, they...
View ArticleSlow Cooking: The College Classroom and American Civic Life
Today we welcome Will Katerberg to the Anxious Bench. Will is Professor of History at Calvin College, where he also serves as Associate Dean and Director of the Mellema Program in Western American...
View ArticleWonder Woman and Complementarianism
I found myself thinking about complementarianism while watching the new Wonder Woman movie.
View ArticleThe Democrats Have a Religion Problem. But They’re Not the Only Ones.
So, you’ve probably heard by now: The Democrats have a religion problem. Historian Daniel K. Williams certainly isn’t the first to make this case, but in light of Jon Ossoff’s defeat in Georgia’s Sixth...
View ArticleReclaiming Life at Home: Declaring War on Clutter to Save the American Soul
Imagine for a moment a team of anthropologists walking through your door, taking a look around, and settling in for a close observation of your possessions, how you interact with them, and what this...
View ArticleAn Ordinary Preaching Woman in a Texas Baptist Church, c. 1930
In a 2006 interview, Wayne Grudem argued that female leaders in the church (especially pastors) are disobeying God’s word and thus open to “the withdrawal of God’s hand of protection and blessing.” As...
View ArticleMe Too. And Why This is a Christian Problem.
Female “purity” was highly prized in Victorian Christianity, but a sexual double standard let men off the hook.
View ArticleBecause Xmas really is Xpian…
This is from my Anxious Bench archives. It is still one of my favorites, even though I wrote it two years ago. Stay tuned for my next post on more Xmas traditions. I literally stumbled across St....
View ArticleChristian Scholarship’s Distribution Problem
Today’s guest post comes from Raully Donahue. Donahue took a PhD in European history from Notre Dame into upper Michigan to raise three boys. Now that the boys are grown, he is trying to figure out...
View ArticleWhen Evangelicals Campaigned for Family Values
On the campaign against loose morals in the 1920s and how contemporary support for Roy Moore and Donald Trump show just how political the term "evangelical" has become
View ArticleCan “Evangelicalism” Survive Trump?
Today at the Anxious Bench, historian George Marsden weighs in on how we define “evangelicalism” in the age of Trump, and on the role of Christian scholarship in the evangelical tradition. Back in the...
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