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Witch Ways
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by ronald hutton yale, 376 pages, $30 In 1768, John Wesley expressed concern about the decline of...
Going South
From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story by mark a. noll baker, 224 pages, $19.99 In 1900, over 80 percent of Christians lived...
The Alpha Course: British Christianity’s Biggest Success Story
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Easter Stories
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Christian Influence on Islam
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From Cranmer to Welby
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Patrick Wasn’t Irish: He Was British. Deal with It.
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Turfan and the Christians of the Silk Route
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That’ll Be the Day That I Die
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Economics as Eugenics
Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World is not quite as bad as either its author or publisher try to make it. As...
Who Is Harry Sylvester?
If the Ministry of Truth had devoted their full attention to obliterating the memory of Harry Sylvester, his elimination from the public consciousness could not have been more total....
Believing in the Global South
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Strange Spirits
Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality By Leigh Eric Schmidt HarperSanFrancisco, 352 pages, $26.95 Where two or three Americans are gathered, they will sooner or later discuss religion....
Accomplishment––or Fame
Human Accomplishment: the Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 BC to 1950.by Charles Murray.Harper Collis. 668 pp. $29.95 Charles Murray has an admirable penchant for tackling...
A New Religious America
In recent years, the decade of the 1960s has become a popular subject for courses in university history departments. Since humanities professors tilt well to the left, it is...
