In a couple weeks, I’m presenting a paper at the American Society of Church History annual meeting in Chicago about Disney World–themed devotionals. Yes, you

There is plenty of positive and triumphalist thinking in the Christian tradition. But there is also this: a willingness to look directly at suffering, to

Music’s power to connect and reconcile, like that of language, is not automatic; it has to be built.

As I’m training to be a historian of American religion, I’ve been thinking a lot about what history can and can’t do for us.

Many advocates of climate justice, Christian and otherwise, have looked to the Middle Ages to figure out what went wrong and how to set things

This morning, I woke up to the grinding buzz of landscaping equipment. There’d been an email about it, but it was before 8 a.m. and

At the end of a whirlwind lecture about the “Writings” in the Hebrew Bible, my intro Old Testament professor arrived at the whirlwind itself: Job

It’s an ancient conviction in both Jewish and Christian scripture that all of creation — not only humanity — praises the Lord in song. The