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World Christianity
Interviews with scholars of World Christianity about their new books.
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 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…
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 30, 2026
Monastic Desires
Derek Krueger Monastic Desires: Homoeroticism, Homophobia, and Love of God in Medieval Constantinople (Cambridge UP, 2026) The Byzantine Abbot Symeo…
February 19, 2026
Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic
In the midst of academic debates about the utility of the term “magic” and the cultural meaning of ancient words like mageia or khesheph, this Guide t…
February 16, 2026
From Juche to Jesus
In From Juche to Jesus: A Study of Worldview Transformation Among North Korean Defector Christians in South Korea (Pickwick Publications, 2025), Su Hw…
January 29, 2026
The Influence of Early Keswick Theology of Sanctification in the Socio-Ethical Life of the East African Revival Movement
I have long had an interest in both the Keswick movement and the East Africa Revival. Dr Robinson Kariuki Mwangi’s doctoral research brings the two to…
January 19, 2026
A Prophecy of Empire
The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius was one of the medieval world’s most popular and widely translated texts. Composed in Syriac in Mesopotamia in the …
January 8, 2026
The Mission of God
God's mission is to reclaim the world. The church has a designated role to play. Most Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for missi…
January 4, 2026
Cooperative Evangelist
Cooperative Evangelist: Kagawa Toyohiko and His World, 1888-1960 (University of Hawai’i Press, 2025) by Bo Tao uncovers the extraordinary world of a J…
December 21, 2025
Re-Inventing Islam
From the end of the American Civil War to the start of World War II, the Protestant missionary movement unintentionally tilled the soil in which Ameri…
November 26, 2025
In the Footsteps of St. Thomas (with Bishop Daniel Timotheos
Bishop Daniel talks like a Texas Protestant in terms of Church Planting and giving your heart to Christ, but actually he is a bishop in the Orthodox C…
November 3, 2025
Algerian and Christian
Algerian and Christian are two words that many people do not put together. Dr. Patrick Brittenden does. In this episode, we talk with Patrick about hi…
October 1, 2025
Ethiopian Diaspora Churches on Mission
Diaspora churches have a tremendous capacity for mission as they practice their faith in the Western world, yet why do they fail to develop effective …
September 19, 2025
Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan
How do new ideas and beliefs take root when they cross cultural and linguistic borders? In seventeenth-century Taiwan, both Dutch and Spanish missiona…
August 16, 2025
Soul by Soul
US-born Protestant evangelicalism has gone global to an extent of which many of us might be unaware. Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread t…
July 26, 2025
The Souls of China
Ian Johnson’s new book, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao (Pantheon, 2017), was called "a masterpiece of observation and empathy" b…
July 19, 2025
A History of the Church Through Its Buildings
A History of the Church through its Buildings (Oxford University Press, 2021) by Allan Doig takes the reader to meet people who lived through momentou…
July 11, 2025
Go with God
Through deep attention to sense and feeling, Go with God grapples with the centrality of Evangelical faith in Rio de Janeiro's subúrbios, the city's e…
July 5, 2025
Faithful Disobedience
In this important body of theology, key writings from the Chinese house church movement have been compiled, translated, and made accessible to English…