Grant Wacker
Global Christianity & American religious history
The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution, by John L. Allen Jr....
Global Christianity & American religious history
To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity, by Allan Heaton Anderson....
God at hand
How did evangelicals develop their belief in an invisible God? T. M. Luhrmann argues that they created a space in their imagination.
China’s homegrown Protestants
According to Lian Xi, radical Protestantism flourished in 20th-century China partly by distancing itself from the Western missionary establishment.
World Christianity & American religion
Homies and Hermanos: God and Gangs in Central America, by Robert Brenneman....
Religion in decline?
Readers familiar with Ross Douthat's column might expect his new book to be moderately conservative and carefully nuanced. It is neither.
Christ offers new life for all
The gospel is the good news that Christ's death and
resurrection--mediated through scripture, tradition, and the sacraments of the
church--offers new life for all who embrace it.
Take & read: World Christianity & American religion
Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global Christianity, by Miriam Adeney....
American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists
Several years ago, my daughter, who is a Methodist pastor, received an appointment to a small charge in North Carolina’s tobacco country....
Take and read
What happens when a superb scholar who studies both North American religious history and global...
Upon the Altar of the Nation
For author Harry Stout, the legitimacy of going to war (jus ad bellum) is one thing; the legitimacy of how the war is conducted (jus in bello) is another. The moral problem of the Civil War does not lie in the decision to go to battle—according to Stout, preserving the Union and eradicating slavery offered reason enough. He makes clear that he is not a pacifist and that fighting is sometimes a lesser evil. Rather, the moral problem lies in how the war was conducted.
The Billy pulpit: Graham's career in the mainline
Billy Graham and I hit New York City at the same time, the summer of 1957. He was 38 and about to clinch his reputation as the premier evangelist in Protestant history....