Thoughts on the Western Wall, Fifty Years Later
by George WeigelSomething resembling a real religion-and-society debate is finally emerging in Israel. Continue Reading »
Dress Up
by G. Bruce BoyerFor quite a few years now, academic philosophers and sociologists, as well as popular social commentators who get paid to pronounce on such matters, have been telling us that people have been abandoning their formal personas in favor of the whims and behavior of their individual selves. The . . . . Continue Reading »
The Age of Concentration
by Eugene VodolazkinMany regard Russia as backward, lagging behind the West. This is not so. Our shared civilization is changing, and because of our raw experience of the twentieth century, my country is in some respects ahead of the West. I have described the coming epoch as a new medievalism (“The New Middle . . . . Continue Reading »
Keep Christianity Weird
by Joshua KinlawChristianity’s sheer familiarity has desensitized us to its radicalness. Larry Hurtado aims to show how the “odd” became “commonplace,” by surveying the first three centuries of the Jesus movement. Continue Reading »
Tracing Church History through Old Newspapers
by K. E. ColombiniBrowsing the Catholic News Archive, you’ll notice how much things have changed—and not always for the better. Continue Reading »
Pope Francis as Historian
by Bronwen McSheaThe pope’s historical formulations—about Luther and Jesuit missions—makes this historian wince. Continue Reading »
The Bible and Colonial America
by Glenn MootsMark Noll’s reliance on a reductive caricature of Protestant political theology causes him to give a false impression of how most colonial American Protestants deployed sacred and secular sources in their political thought. Continue Reading »
The Bishop and the Nazis
by Daniel UtrechtIn the summer of 1941, at the height of Germany's success in the war, Bishop von Galen decided to take a public stand against the Nazis, even if he had to do it on his own. Continue Reading »
Saint Louverture
by Helen AndrewsToussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Lifeby philippe girardbasic books, 352 pages, $29.99The Virginia planter and Fire-Eater Edmund Ruffin, who in 1865 blew his brains out rather than live under Yankee rule, called Toussaint Louverture “the only truly great man yet known of the negro race.” In . . . . Continue Reading »
Our Man In Byzantium
by Christopher TyermanOutlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runcimanby minoo dinshawallen lane, 784 pages, £30 No events in medieval European history are more discussed today than the wars fought under the banner of the Cross of Christ known to us, but not to those who fought them, as the Crusades. Originally . . . . Continue Reading »
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