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October 28, 2024
The Nature of Christian Doctrine
The Nature of Christian Doctrine: Its Origins, Development, and Function (Oxford UP, 2024) offers a groundbreaking account of the origins, development…
October 19, 2024
The Bible
A “wonderful…highly comprehensive” (John Barton, author of A History of the Bible) global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book …
October 9, 2024
Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520
For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere – from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation look…
October 1, 2024
Mercy Ships
Reanne Newquist tells me about her voyage on Mercy Ships bringing healthcare to some of the poorest people in the world, a mission started by Don Step…
October 1, 2024
American Heretics
A question has long hung over the the United States regarding the proper role of religion in public life. Those who long for a Christian America claim…
September 27, 2024
Guiding God's Marriage
It is well-known that the institution of marriage has changed dramatically in the past few decades. However, very little research has focused on the r…
September 24, 2024
Crusader Criminals
In Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land (Yale University Press, 2024), Dr. Steve Tibble presents a vivid new history of the…
September 17, 2024
Reckoning with Change in Yucatán
A perpetual tension exists between history and change, which is an issue long explored by historians and social scientists. Reckoning with Change in Y…
September 11, 2024
Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250
The history of monasticism in early Ireland is dominated by its flourishing during the sixth and seventh centuries, a period dominated by Columba of I…
September 9, 2024
Trafficking with Demons
Martha Rampton's book Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000 (Cornell University Press, 2021) explores how mag…
September 8, 2024
Religion Around Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday is one of the most iconic jazz performers of all time. Her voice is certainly unmistakable but for many her religious sensibilities may…
September 6, 2024
Unorthodox Kin
Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging (U California Press, 2017) is a lively, readable exploration of "chosen" ident…
August 30, 2024
The Teutonic Knights
Aleksander Pluskowski of the University of Reading joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Cor…
August 29, 2024
The Opening of the Protestant Mind
During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chi…
August 29, 2024
Localism
Dale Ahlquist is the founder the of the Society of G. K. Chesterton and Chesterton Schools, of which there are currently 70 and number is rising. He i…
August 15, 2024
A Hidden Life (with Brian Zahnd)
What would you do in the place of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter in 1943? Mumble your loyalty oath to Hitler like everyone else—or refuse and pay …
August 13, 2024
The New Testament and the Theology of Trust
The New Testament and the Theology of Trust (Oxford UP, 2022) argues for the recovery of trust as a central theme in Christian theology, and offers th…
August 12, 2024
The Medieval Scriptorium
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes the reader on an immersive journey through mediaev…
August 4, 2024
Going to Church in Medieval England
For people in medieval England, the parish church was an integral part of their community. In Going to Church in Medieval England (Yale University Pre…
July 28, 2024
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in th…