Here is a taste of Amy Frykholm’s Christian Century interview with Duke Divinity School professor Kate Bowler, the author of The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities: Evangelicals tend to be skeptical of women in formal positions of authority....
Duke Divinity School’s Kate Bowler keeps churning out books. Her latest is The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities. Over at Christianity Today, Liberty University’s Karen Swallow Prior interviews Bowler about her new book. Here is a taste: Despite...
I have read an advanced copy of Kate Bowler‘s new book and I am happy to report that today is its official release date. I not only recommend it to you, but I am happy to announce that Kate will...
I think it is probably fair to say that Joel Osteen could have done a better job in responding to Hurricane Harvey. Because of his prosperity preaching and wealthy lifestyle he gets hammered by just about everyone other than his...
Joel Osteen, the prosperity preacher who is the leader of the 38,000 member Lakewood Church in Houston, has been taking a lot of heat for apparently not opening his church to flood victims. I really don’t have enough information to...
Duke Divinity School historian Kate Bowler asks this question at Faith and Leadership blog. Here is a taste of her piece: No one seems to call anyone famous in the mainline church. As a historian of the largest churches and...
Last week many of you read Kate Bowler‘s powerful New York Times op-ed on what it is like for a historian of the prosperity gospel movement to have cancer. Over at Christianity Today, Morgan Lee (a former student of mine at Messiah College!)...
Kate Bowler, an American religious history professor at Duke Divinity School, has cancer. She is also the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel. Over at The New York Times, Kate reflects on having cancer and writing about the...
Kate Bowler, a young and gifted American religious historian at Duke Divinity School, needs out prayers today. Here is what her husband posted on her website: “Well my loves, this is not how I wanted to tell you. I need […]
Donald Trump needs help on the religion front. Many of you have seen this:[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OblRcImzvqI]Unlike some of his opponents, including Scott Walker, John Kasich, Mike Huckabee and especially Ted Cruz, Trump sounds very awkward whenever he talks about religion. I...
Those of you who have been following our coverage of the annual meetings of the American Historical Association and the American Society of Church History (ASCH) are familiar with Mandy McMichael. You can read here previous posts here.Mandy is a...
Glad to have Mandy’s second post. Stay tuned. I think there is more to come from her before the conference ends. (I hope so)—JF Saturday was my longest day of conference events. It began bright and early with the Women...
Thanks to Michael Limberg for his posts this weekend. Here is his latest. It’s a good one–JF Today (Sunday) has been an 8-plus hour blur of back-to-back panels and conversations. I’m exhausted and my mind is spinning. I have a...
