Puritans, Neo-Puritans, and the Ongoing Legacies of Mainline Protestantism – By Mark Hulsether
Mark Hulsether on Margaret Bendroth’s The Last Puritans For the past few decades, a top contender for the least cool topic in the
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A Book about Books and a Collection on Collections – By Drew Longacre
Drew Longacre on George W. Houston’s Inside Roman Libraries In the fall of 54 BCE, Cicero wrote to his brother Quintus, “After a
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Orthodoxy as Orthopraxy in Late-Antique Christianity – By Iuliana Viezure
Iuliana Viezure on David Michelson’s Practical Christology of Philoxenos of Mabbug Philoxenos, the bishop of Mabbug in Syria between 485 and 519, is
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The Afterlife of Desire – By Heidi Marx-Wolf
Heidi Marx-Wolf on Taylor Petrey’s Resurrecting Parts Augustine believed that Adam and Eve would have indeed had sex in Paradise had they been
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First Impressions #83: Amira Jarmakani on Desert Romances and the War on Terror
Popular “desert romance” novels reveal some of the cultural logic in the construction of U.S. imperialism and the war on terror. Kristian Petersen
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It’s Trump–Now What? An Impolite Conversation Supplement
In this supplement to our regular monthly show, Tim Hill and Dan Clanton talk about what it means for the United States, for
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The Death of God, Again by Ed Simon
The fullest affirmation of God comes in His denial. A young, attractive blonde woman with a fashionable pixie haircut sits anxiously in the
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The Summit of Spiritual Perfection in the Messiness of Worldly Affairs – By John Moorhead
John Moorhead on George Demacopoulos’s Gregory the Great Pope Gregory the Great was one of those people who found himself pulled in very
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La Dolce Vita: Desires and Despairs of Latin American Migrants in Rome – By Hillary Kaell
Hillary Kaell on Valentina Napolitano’s Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return Arrayed in white before the crowd at St. Peter’s in Vatican City,
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Faith in Motion: Techniques and Technologies of Prayer in the Appalachians and Beyond – By Bruno Reinhardt
Bruno Reinhardt on Anderson Blanton’s Hittin’ the Prayer Bones In his 1964 classic Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan argued that increasing mediatization has transformed
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