Podcast Episodes

Thomas Breimaier, "Tethered to the Cross: The Life and Preaching of Charles H. Spurgeon" (IVP Academic, 2020)

"Tethered to the cross" is how the renowned nineteenth-century English Baptist minister Charles H. Spurgeon (1834–1892) described the task of ministr…

1 day, 12 hours ago

Gabrielle Thomas, "The Problem of the Devil in Cappadocian Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

In The Problem of the Devil in Cappadocian Thought (Cambridge UP, 2026), Gabrielle Thomas questions the popular assumption that the devil served as…

3 days, 12 hours ago

Francesca Sbardella, "Inhabiting Silence: An Anthropologist in the Cloister" (Berghahn Books, 2025)

Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts b…

3 days, 12 hours ago

Fr. Dwight Longenecker, "Bloodshed and Blessing: Stories of Sacrifice from Ancient Altars to the Holy Mass" (Sophia Institute Press, 2026)

Something deep within you recognizes it–the instinct that sacrifice matters, that something must be offered, that violence and beauty are woven toget…

1 week, 4 days ago

Holly Crawford Pickett, "The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

After mounting London’s outdoor pulpit known as St. Paul’s Cross on 8th December, 1588, Anthony Tyrrell found himself perched before a skeptical au…

1 week, 6 days ago

Jamie L. Brummitt, "Protestant Relics in Early America" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Edward Blum interviews Dr. Jamie L. Brummitt on how new book Protestant Relics in Early America.

In Protestant Relics in Early America (Oxford UP, …

2 weeks ago

Sabrina Inowlocki, "Ancient Apologetics and the Bibliographic Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Ancient apologetics is usually treated as a literary genre or a branch of early theology. This Element offers a different account. It argues that man…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Robin Whelan, "Serving the Christian State in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

How did the state become Christian in late antiquity? Many scholars have traced the Christianization of the Roman world in the centuries following …

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, "God and Knowledge: Herman Bavinck's Theological Epistemology" (T&T Clark, 2021)

N. Gray Sutanto offers a fresh reading of Herman Bavinck's theological epistemology and argues that his Trinitarian and organic worldview utilizes …

3 weeks, 5 days ago

David W. Congdon, "Who is a True Christian?: Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Who Is a True Christian?: Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture (Cambridge UP, 2024) examines how American Christians have tried to deter…

3 weeks, 6 days ago