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Anxious Bench posts

"Corporate Evangelicalism"

John Fea   |  August 11, 2016

I recently finished reading Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity,and the Unmaking of the American Dream. I have been a fan of Lehmann’s writing for some time now. A former graduate student in history at the University of Rochester where he...

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Big Changes in the Christian Historians' Blogosphere

John Fea   |  June 7, 2016

The Supreme Court of the United States is not the only “bench” that is experiencing a change of personnel. As John Turner of George Mason University reports, Thomas Kidd, the prolific historian of American Christianity at Baylor University, will be...

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Goodbye Patheos

John Fea   |  February 27, 2013

Today’s post at the “The Anxious Bench” was my last as a regular contributor.  I am stepping away from my weekly spot at the blog so I can devote more attention to other projects, including The Way of Improvement Leads...

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My Post on David Barton and Louis L’Amour Has Been Cross-Posted at First Things

John Fea   |  February 27, 2013

Here it is, complete with the cover of L’Amour’s Bendigo Shafter....

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This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “The United States: Christian or ‘Secular?'”

John Fea   |  February 20, 2013

Those who of you who thought I had gone off the deep end with last week’s critique of Dr. Ben Carson’s National Prayer Breakfast speech will probably be even more disturbed by the fact that today I will be speaking...

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This Week’s “Anxious Bench Post” at Patheos: More on the History of Black Evangelicalism in America

John Fea   |  January 30, 2013

A couple of weeks ago I asked; “Where Are the Studies of Twentieth-Century Black Evangelicalism?”  I was working on an article on evangelical political engagement and wanted to say something about the role of Black evangelicals, but I was unable...

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This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: Throckmorton and Barton Duke it Out

John Fea   |  January 23, 2013

The debate over David Barton’s The Jefferson Lies continues. The conservative Christian World Magazine has published a lengthy essay by Warren Throckmorton and Michael Coulter drawn largely from their book, Getting Jefferson Right. The fitting title of their article is...

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This Week’s “Anxious Post” at Patheos: Where Are the Studies of Twentieth-Century Black Evangelicalism?

John Fea   |  January 16, 2013

I am working on some revisions to an article on evangelicals and political engagement in the twentieth century.  If all goes well, the essay will find its way into a collection of essays stemming from a series of Catholic-Evangelical dialogues...

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This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “The Evangelical Impulse Behind the Abolition of Slavery”

John Fea   |  January 9, 2013

Did you get a chance to watch The Abolitionists last night on PBS?  If you missed it, you can watch the first episode  here.  The series focuses on five nineteenth-century abolitionists–Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown,...

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This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “Why College?”

John Fea   |  December 26, 2012

Leon Wieseltier is the literary editor of The New Republic.  If you do not read him regularly you should.  Sometimes Wieseltier will make you angry, but he will always make you think. In the December 31 issue of the magazine...

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This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “The Best Books in American Religious History That I Read This Year”

John Fea   |  December 5, 2012

In the wake of Thomas Kidd’s post on his five most compelling religious biographies, I thought I would offer an end-of-the year reading list of my own.  Here are some of the best books (in no particular order) I read...

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This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “Preaching Bonhoeffer and the Uses of the Past”

John Fea   |  November 14, 2012 Leave a Comment

My friend John Turner, a historian at George Mason University, author of a biography of Brigham Young that has been receiving a lot of attention, and a fellow blogger, suggested that I post this piece over at the Anxious Bench.  […]

This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “Why I Am Glad The Election is Over”

John Fea   |  November 7, 2012

“As an American historian, what do you think about the 2012 presidential election?” I am asked this question often and I am never sure how to answer it.  Ask me in another ten or twenty years and maybe I might...

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This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “Ron Sider on Christian Political Engagement”

John Fea   |  October 31, 2012

I recently read Ron Sider’s excellent The Scandal of Evangelical Politics: Why Are Christians Missing the Chance to Really Change the World.  If you have not read it yet, you should.  If you have the time, I would strongly encourage...

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This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “What Does Democracy Require of Us?”

John Fea   |  October 24, 2012 3 Comments

On March 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln stood before the crowd at the United States capitol building to deliver his second inaugural address.  Lincoln was addressing a nation nearing the conclusion of a long and bloody Civil War that took 600,000 […]

This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “The Historian and Imago Dei”

John Fea   |  October 17, 2012 Leave a Comment

Two weeks ago I wrote in this space about the relationship between the historians work and the reality of human sin.  This week, I want to focus on the historian’s work as it relates to the Judeo-Christian belief in Imago […]

This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “Sin and the Historian”

John Fea   |  October 3, 2012

This semester I am teaching a sophomore seminar entitled “Historical Methods.”  Since I teach at a Christian college, we spend a lot of time in this course thinking about the relationship between Christianity and the practice of doing history.  This...

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This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Column at Patheos: “We’re #95!, We’re #95!, We’re #95!”

John Fea   |  September 26, 2012 Leave a Comment

According to Kent Shaffer at Church Relevance, “The Anxious Bench” is the 95th best “church blog” on the Internet.  I am not sure what this all means, but the ranking has me thinking.  Are we really a “church blog?” Read […]

This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “The Founding Fathers, Barack Obama, and “Taking Care of Our Own”

John Fea   |  September 19, 2012 Leave a Comment

My apologies to the readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home, but this week’s Anxious Post post is a repeat. The Founding Fathers would have been proud of Barack Obama’s speech Thursday night in Charlotte.  Ever since the Chicago-based […]

This Week’s “Anxious Bench” Post at Patheos: “Is America New England Writ Large?”

John Fea   |  September 12, 2012

I spent the last couple of days at Duke University where I gave a lecture at a really interesting conference on the Bible in the Public Square.  The conference was sponsored by the Duke Department of Religion, the Duke Center...

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