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Christian Studies
Interviews with scholars of Christianity about their new books.
May 6, 2026
The Gospel of John
The contentious life and times of the most widely cited book of the New Testament. Written some two thousand years ago, the Gospel of John is the only…
May 6, 2026
Wearing a Broken Indigene Heart on the Sleeve of Christian Mission
In my conversation with Rev. Dr Carmen Lansdowne about her book Wearing a Broken Indigene Heart on the Sleeve of Christian Mission (CMU Press, 2025), …
May 5, 2026
Born Again Queer
Evangelicals claim that their opposition to homosexuality is an inherent feature of their faith, rooted in their unchanging beliefs about the Bible. M…
May 3, 2026
The Formation of Psalms 1–3 and the Arrangement of the Hebrew Psalter
The shape and shaping of the Psalter continues to be one of the more fascinating areas of biblical research. In his recent monograph on Psalm 1-3, Eri…
April 29, 2026
Sounds for a New World
In the Greco-Roman world, gods were known to tame soundscapes, or acoustic landscapes. Zeus, Apollo, Orpheus, and other Classical deities demonstrated…
April 27, 2026
War and Community in Late Antiquity
Susanna Elm and Kristina Sessa, War and Community in Late Antiquity (Cambridge UP, 2026) Late Antiquity (ca. 250–600 CE) was a world at war: barbaria…
April 21, 2026
Free Enough to Grow
In Free Enough to Grow: The Turkish Protestant Movement, 1961-2016 (Springer Nature, 2026), James Bultema identifies and investigates four central fac…
April 11, 2026
Narrative Analogy in the David Story
Have you ever heard echoes of the Genesis patriarchs in the story of David? If so, you're not alone! Join us as we speak with Joanna Kline about her …
April 8, 2026
The Gospel According to Josephus, Part 2
In this fifth episode of Season 5, I interview Professor Thomas C. Schmidt, a historian who focuses on the New Testament, Patristics, and Eastern Chr…
April 6, 2026
The People's Patriarch
On October 28, 1917, just days after the Bolsheviks seized power, the great Council of the Russian Orthodox Church voted to restore the patriarchate, …
April 5, 2026
The First Pastors
Most accounts of Christian leadership in the first two centuries focus on the diversity of leadership structures and the various cultural influences t…
April 1, 2026
John Wesley and the Origins of Methodist Missions
It is broadly understood that John Wesley was the founder of the Methodist movement that spread around the world in the eighteenth century. He is know…
April 1, 2026
The Gospel According to Josephus, Part 1
In this fourth episode of Season 5, I interview Professor Thomas C. Schmidt, a historian who focuses on the New Testament, Patristics, and Eastern Chr…
March 31, 2026
Christian-Muslim Relations in Post-Reformation Indonesia
The post-Reformation era has witnessed a vastly changing landscape in Indonesian Islam, particularly with the emergence of conservative Muslim voices.…
March 25, 2026
Hope for a New David in the Psalter's Narrative Impulse
Does the Psalter have a unified theme or message? Davy Ellison says, “Yes!” In his new book Hope for a New David in the Psalter's Narrative Impulse: R…
March 25, 2026
Justifying Transgression
How do people justify what others see as transgression? Taking that question to the Persian-Muslim and Latin-Christian worlds over the period 1200 to …
March 21, 2026
Noah and the Flood in Western Thought
In a world beset by climatic emergencies, the continuing resonance of the flood story is perhaps easy to understand. Whether in the tortured alpha mal…
March 18, 2026
The Bible Says So
The Bible is arguably the world’s most influential book, but do we really know what it says? Every day across social media and in homes, businesses, a…
March 13, 2026
Between Dung and Blood
Manuela Ceballos’ new book Between Dung and Blood: Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean (University of California Pr…
March 11, 2026
Life in the Georgian Parsonage
An innovative approach in the field of material culture and consumption studies, Life in the Georgian Parsonage: Morals, Material Goods and the Englis…