When America Was Born Again – By Neil J. Young
Neil J. Young on Steven P. Miller’s The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years In 1976, as Jimmy Carter campaigned for the White
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Christian History
The Politics of Prosperity: Pentecostalism as Critique – By Naomi Haynes
Naomi Haynes on Ilana Van Wyk’s The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa In 2013, ten years after I
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The Scandal of Silence – By Sarah Coakley
Sarah Coakley on Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Silence Silence is golden. Or is it? In this intriguing survey of the theme of silence in Christian
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Worlds Together: Gregory, Julian, and the Heirs of the Classical Heritage – By John Anthony McGuckin
John Anthony McGuckin on Susanna Elm’s Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church Susanna Elm has produced a work that shakes the classical
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Learning to Read the Victorian Church – By David Frazer Lewis
David Frazer Lewis on Michael Hall’s George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America What do Victorian churches mean?
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Angels: Here, There, and Everywhere – By Robin Darling Young
Robin Darling Young on Ellen Muehlberger’s Angels in Late Ancient Christianity “Some have entertained angels unaware,” according to the author of Hebrews —
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Thomas Merton and the Benefit of Recollecting Ancient Christian Worship – By Lee M. Jefferson
Lee M. Jefferson on Andrew B. McGowan’s Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective A Sufi scholar once
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Metaphor and Its Limits – By Ellen Muehlberger
Ellen Muehlberger on Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World Douglas Boin starts his new book by revealing a secret about himself:
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Confessions of a Hollywood Liberal: American Sitcoms and the Culture Wars, from Norman Lear to “Parks and Recreation” – By L. Benjamin Rolsky
L. Benjamin Rolsky on Andrew Hartman’s A War for the Soul of America A little over a month ago, the critically acclaimed situation comedy “Parks and
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How Gay Were the Early Christians? Or, The Perils of Hyperbole in Historiography – By John David Penniman
John David Penniman on Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World The question of what happened to the Roman Empire between
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