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About Crawford Gribben
Crawford Gribben is a professor of history at Queen’s University Belfast.
NBN Episodes hosted by Crawford:
August 5, 2025
Four Mountains
How can war stories, farming proverbs, and strange visions draw you closer to Jesus? In Four Mountains: Encountering God in the Bible from Eden to Zio…
June 28, 2025
Gribbin
Gribbin: A Family History of Ulster (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2023) is a comprehensive history of the Gribbin (Gribben/Gribbon) family. The autho…
June 5, 2025
Confession of the Christian Religion
In response to the Lutheran Formula of Concord, representatives of Reformed churches commissioned Girolamo Zanchi to draft a confession of faith accep…
May 13, 2025
Edinburgh's Unruly Women
Edinburgh's Unruly Women: Gender, Discipline, and Power, 1560-1660 (Routledge, 2024) examines experiences of church discipline across parish communiti…
April 21, 2025
The Nero-Antichrist
In The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm (Cambridge UP, 2020), Shushma Malik reconstructs the means by which the emperor Nero came t…
April 7, 2025
Predestination in Early Modern Reformed Theology
In Predestination in Early Modern Reformed Theology (Reformation Heritage Books, 2024), Dr. Richard A. Muller delves into one of the most controversia…
March 11, 2025
John Brown of Haddington on Frequent Communion
Shallow and quickly outdated Christian worship practices have left many searching for something with deeper roots. Many churches have rediscovered the…
February 21, 2025
The Monastic World
From the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. But who were monasteries for? What kind of people …
November 3, 2024
Sigmundur and the Golden Ring
Tim Ecott, who is well-known as a journalist and writer, has, in his last several books, turned his attention to the history and culture of the Faroe …
October 1, 2024
Reformed Covenant Theology
Covenant shapes our life with God. In Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction (Lexham Academic, 2024), Harrison Perkins shows how Christ…
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…
August 14, 2024
Paul's Last Letter
The Second Epistle to Timothy is, by any standard, a remarkable document. Even as the apostle urges his friend and coworker hasten to Rome for a final…
August 13, 2024
Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Secular World
Jehovah’s Witnesses are one of the most successful “new religious movements” to have emerged from the prophetic ferment within later nineteenth-centur…
July 30, 2024
When Christians Disagree
Our current culture seems to be increasingly divided on countless issues, including those affecting the church. But for centuries, theological disagre…
June 23, 2024
The Fall
Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail? Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in Eng…
June 16, 2024
Red Secularism
Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933 (Cambridge UP, 2023) is the first substantive investigation into one of the k…
May 21, 2024
Milton's Theological Process
This volume proposes a method for reading Milton's De Doctrina Christiana as an artifact of his process of theological thinking rather than as a repos…
May 9, 2024
Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach
Roger Scruton was one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then was he at best ignored and at worst reviled? In Roger Sc…
April 21, 2024
William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism
Exploring both his life and legacy, the first full biography of William Sharman Crawford, the leading agrarian and democratic radical active in Ulster…
April 17, 2024
Two Lives of Saint Brigid
St. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St. Patrick, she established a monastery for men an…
February 18, 2024
The Christology of Ignatius of Antioch
The letters of Ignatius of Antioch portray Jesus in terms that are both remarkably exalted and shockingly vulnerable. Jesus is identified as God and i…
January 5, 2024
American Vikings
A vivid and illuminating new history--separate fact from fiction, myth from legend--exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America. Vikings…
December 31, 2023
God Against the Revolution
Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution. Among those who retained some degree of loyalty to the British…
December 26, 2023
Homeschool
With around two million children currently enrolled in home schools in the USA, no-one can doubt that the subject of Milton Gaither’s new book is time…