Art Remillard When I think of “muscular Christianity,” I don’t immediately imagine the “ body as temple” theologians , as Cliffor d Putney has called them. Yes, the Luther Gulicks gave the movement intellectual heft
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Don’t Mess With the Neo-Macho Christians!
Paul Harvey In The Book , David Wallace-Wells has a nice review of a book that will interest some of you, especially you colonialists and economic history types: Nick Bunker, Make Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and their World . I haven’t read this book, but the review is interesting, and ends with a nice passage: The unfortunate emphasis in Making Haste on pilgrim entrepreneurship, and its pointed disinterest in Calvinist theology, is telling, and natural enough. Though the United States remains in some sense a Christian nation—churchgoing, evangelical, exceptionalist—the strange theology of our Puritan forebears is far more foreign to us, and far more difficult to reckon with, than their scuffling pre-market mercantilism.
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By the Rivers of Babylon, where the Pilgrims Wept
But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree
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Meet me at the Cross… or maybe just an Oak Tree will do?
Preachers need to be, as well as many other things, readers. But unless you are single and financially set for life, you probably don’t have as much time as you’d like for reading. Join the club. So this post includes some thoughts, then perhaps you can share your suggestions and experiences too. 1
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A Reader, A Wise Reader
by Matt Sutton I was hesitating to do a 2010 version of “Know Your Archives” for the sake of the Springfield, MO, Chamber of Commerce. But since Paul asked for it… In late May I returned to the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center for research. I was there eight years ago, on my first major research trip as a graduate student.
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Know Your Archives Part IX)
Paul Harvey Over at Religion in the American West , James Bennett writes of archive envy as he bides his summer time stay-at-home-dad-ing and looks forward to future archival research ventures in his new field of religion in the West. Bennett’s memories and query recall a thread here which went several rounds last year, and which we’ll invite further reflections from anyone interested: Know Your Archives , the last entry of which was quite recently, Know Your [Digital] Archives
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Archive Envy Redux
Paul Harvey While some of you reprobates were out testing the new micro-beer selections on the 4th of July, some of us were putting our long personal nightmare (a book manuscript) finally to post and ready to be shipped out for its deployment — at long last! (I tested out a new bottle of Old Raj gin, the best bottle of alcohol God ever invented, at the end of all this, so I’ll have to join the reprobate category). Our contributor John Fea was finishing up his book Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction; and yes, John, finishing is a good feeling
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Finishing the Columbia Guide to Religion in American History (I’ll Drink to That!)
UFC 116 just happened… and for those of you either don’t in the know or in the care, it was off the chain! Great fights, good drama and one intense heavyweight championship in which a former WWE superstar arrived as an MMA powerhouse, Brock Lesnar. Oh, sorry? Does my rah-rah session of mixed martial arts
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Hey MMA guy, this dude says Jesus wouldn’t tap. Ever.
Controversial Islamic televangelist Zakir Naik’s talk at North America’s largest Islamic gathering Saturday night was cancelled.
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Talk by controversial Islamic preacher cancelled
Torontonians came out by the hundreds to show their affection for The Queen as she attended Sunday service at St. James Cathedral.
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Crowd thrilled by Queen’s visit to St. James Cathedral