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Christian Studies
Interviews with scholars of Christianity about their new books.
August 5, 2026
All the Lives You Can Change
All the Lives You Can Change: Effective Altruism for ChristiansBy Dominic Roser, David Zhang and J. D. Bauman All the Lives You Can Change: Effecti…
August 4, 2026
Korean Messiah
Of the two Koreas, it is the South which appears much the more Christian today, with all major cities dotted with church spires and illuminated crosse…
August 2, 2026
The Woman Caught in Adultery and the Gospel of John
The story of the woman caught in adultery in John’s Gospel has long stirred controversy. Given its checkered manuscript witness, many scholars don’t b…
August 1, 2026
The Kiss
The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power (Reaktion, 2026) by Professor Katie Barclay tells the surprising history of our most intimate gesture: th…
July 30, 2026
Restoring the Ancient Religion
Restoring the Ancient Religion: The Theurgic Orthopraxy of Iamblichus (Palgrave MacMillan, 2026) reconsiders Iamblichus’ Response to Porphyry, Late An…
July 29, 2026
Jacob
In Jacob: Conflicted Twin, Aggrieved Patriarch (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2025), George Savran brings his narrative interpretive approach to look close…
July 28, 2026
Beyond Hope
In Beyond Hope: Rabbinic Eschatology of Late Antiquity in Comparative Perspective (Oxford UP, 2026) Jenny Labendz addresses distinct patterns within …
July 20, 2026
Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Texts Found in the Judean Desert, Revised Second Edition
Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Texts Found in the Judean Desert, Revised Second Edition (Brill, 2025) revises the first edition of …
July 15, 2026
Fan Fiction on the Book of Genesis
Can creative writing become a form of biblical interpretation? That is the provocative question at the heart of my conversation with Sarah Rosenson a…
June 26, 2026
Christian Environmentalism in a Hindu Majoritarian Context
Why has the Catholic Church in India become so engaged in environmental initiatives? And what does the wider Indian political context defined by an as…
June 22, 2026
Fearfully and Wonderfully Broken (Sydney Anne Bennett)
At age 22, Sydney’s Bennett’s brain stopped communicating with her body correctly; she was suffering from Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), a co…
June 19, 2026
Sanctified by the Spirit
In Sanctified by the Spirit: John Owen, Habits of Grace, and Biblical Counseling (Reformation Heritage Books, 2024) Dr. Colin McCulloch examines how a…
June 15, 2026
A God-Shaped Nation
Ever since conquistadores claimed Taino land in the name of their Catholic God and New England Puritans formed their strictly Protestant “city on a hi…
June 14, 2026
A Church for a Secular World
The relationship between the Church and the world has been a subject of debate since the Church's earliest days. In A Church for a Secular World: The…
June 8, 2026
Translating hell
In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much to the imaginations of …
June 7, 2026
The Wounded Church
Dr. Annie Selak (she/her/hers) is an expert in feminist ecclesiology. She studies wounds in the church, or moments where the church fails to live into…
June 2, 2026
Assembling Religion
Henry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church, reader of New Thought texts, believer in the "gospel of reincarnation,…
May 25, 2026
Cyril of Alexandria: Against Julian
In 362/363 the Roman emperor Julian composed a treatise titled Against the Galileans in which he set forth his reasons for abandoning Christianity and…
May 21, 2026
From Erasmus to Maius
Codex Vaticanus is often regarded as a pillar of New Testament scholarship, ancient, authoritative, and decisive. In From Erasmus to Maius: The Histor…
May 13, 2026
Whispers in the Pews
Whispers in the Pews: Evangelical Uniformity in a Divided America (NYU Press, 2026) reveals how mundane social interactions in an evangelical church s…