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April 2025

April 24, 2025
At special times of the year such as Easter, I always like to offer seasonally...
April 23, 2025
Editor's note: This post originally appeared on July 21, 2021.  I spent last week researching...
April 22, 2025
Pope Francis's Evangelical Critics Twenty years ago, when Pope John Paul II died, American evangelicals...
April 18, 2025
Choosing Barabbas I’ve been intermittently listening to Bach’s Matthäuspassion performed by the Tölz Boys’ Choir...
April 17, 2025
Last time I wrote about the amazing growth of Catholic populations in Africa, to the...
April 16, 2025
After a dozen years, I bid farewell to the Anxious Bench.
April 15, 2025
What is Nicaea about? Most modern accounts will focus on the theological debate between Arius...
April 11, 2025
Yesterday morning, I received a startling email from my sons’ Little League head coach: one...
April 10, 2025
We are shortly to encounter a major landmark in the history of Christianity, and indeed...
April 09, 2025
The song "Deportee" came on my radar researching folk singer Joan Baez's support of Cesar...
April 07, 2025
In my February I talked about Untangling Critical Race Theory: What Christians Need to Know...
April 04, 2025
It’s Lent: Let’s Go to the Wilderness Budget cuts in the US government have resulted...
April 03, 2025
Today’s blog is a slightly expanded reprint of a post I did at this site...
April 01, 2025
In Support of Expansive Education I saw a debate play out in the comments of...

March 2025

March 27, 2025
We are running out of prophecies. Let me explain. I have been writing about what...
March 26, 2025
You know you are reading a good book when you wish you had read it...
March 25, 2025
Reflections on C. W. Goodyear's President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier (Simon and Schuster, 2023) Of...
March 21, 2025
In my last post, I charted the acceptance and gradual ostracizing of Pentecostals and charismatics...
March 20, 2025
Before too long, we are very likely to be dealing with the choice of a...
March 19, 2025
Until a century and a half or so ago, our premodern forbears didn’t sleep in...
March 18, 2025
As I stared at the fragments of the cross of Christ on display in the...
March 14, 2025
This Spring, I’m teaching a special topics course, “Christianizing Native Peoples,” which explores the Franciscan-indigenous...
March 13, 2025
In the quite near future, the world’s largest religious institution will be choosing a new...
March 12, 2025
Joan Baez is back in the news because of the recent film A Complete Unknown...
March 10, 2025
I am very pleased to announce on this post that my new book Broken Altars:...
March 07, 2025
  Recently I was in charge of an event—inviting people to come, making sure the...
March 06, 2025
You can think many things about the Trump presidency, but few devote much  attention to...
March 04, 2025
Old/New Nazism in America Like many of you, I have observed in horror the uptick...
March 03, 2025
It’s March, which means it’s Women’s History Month– and while in past years at the...

February 2025

February 27, 2025
This post concerns using a kind of historical evidence that I don’t normally deal with,...
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