In case you missed this, the Southern Baptist Convention has announced that the federal investigation into the Convention’s treatment of sexual abuse survivors has come to an end. Here is Liam Adams at The Tennessean: A historic federal investigation into […]
American religion
Kenneth Woodward remembers Martin Marty
Woodward was the longtime religion editor at Newsweek. Much of his career on the religion beat overlapped with Martin Marty’s career as a scholar and interpreter of American religious life. Here is a taste of Woodward’s piece at Commonweal: In […]
The Author’s Corner with Yii-Jan LinÂ
Yii-Jan Lin is Associate Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School. This interview is based on her new book, Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration (Yale University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Immigration and […]
The Author’s Corner with Matthew J. Tuininga
Matthew J. Tuininga is Professor of Christian Ethics and the History of Christianity at Calvin Theological Seminary. This interview is based on his new book, The Wars of the Lord: The Puritan Conquest of America’s First People (Oxford University Press, […]
The Author’s Corner with Richard Carwardine
Richard Carwardine is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus and Distinguished Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. This interview is based on his new book, Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union (Knopf, […]
The Author’s Corner with Tom Smith
Tom Smith is Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. This interview is based on his new book, Word across the Water: American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories (Cornell University Press, 2024). […]
The Author’s Corner with Jason S. Lantzer
Jason S. Lantzer is Assistant Director of the Butler University Honors Program. This interview is based on his new book, “Prohibition Is Here to Stay”: The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the Dry Crusade in America (University of Notre Dame […]
The Author’s Corner with Edward B. Davis
Edward B. “Ted” Davis is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Messiah University and a Fellow of the International Society for Science & Religion. This interview is based on his new book, Protestant Modernist Pamphlets: Science and Religion […]
The Author’s Corner with Hunter Price
Hunter Price is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University. This interview is based on his new book, Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty (University of Virginia Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]
The Author’s Corner with Matthew L. Harris
Matthew L. Harris is Professor of History and Director of Legal Studies at Colorado State University – Pueblo. This interview is based on his new book, Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Oxford University Press, 2024). JF: […]
Interview: Miles Smith’s Religion and Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War
The Early Republic saw religion or faith—not “churches” per se—as worthwhile and important for a healthy society.
The Author’s Corner with Linford D. Fisher, Sheila M. McIntyre, and Julie A. Fisher
Linford D. Fisher is Associate Professor of History at Brown University, Sheila M. McIntyre is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Potsdam, and Julie A. Fisher is a historian, educator, and editor. This interview […]
The Author’s Corner with Jeffrey E. Anderson
Jeffrey E. Anderson is Professor of History and Associate Director of the School of Humanities at the University of Louisiana Monroe. This interview is based on his new book, Voodoo: An African American Religion (LSU Press, 2024). JF: What led […]
The Author’s Corner with Mark Richard
Mark Richard is Professor of History and Canadian Studies at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. This interview is based on his new book, Catholics Across Borders: Canadian Immigrants in the North Country, Plattsburgh, New York, 1850-1950 (State […]
The Author’s Corner with Anthony G. Roeber
Anthony G. Roeber is Professor of Church History at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. This interview is based on his new book, Orthodox Christians and the Rights Revolution in America (Fordham University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Orthodox […]
The Author’s Corner with Scott Douglas Gerber
Scott Douglas Gerber is Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University and Associated Scholar at Brown University’s Political Theory Project. This interview is based on his new book, Law and Religion in Colonial America: The Dissenting Colonies (Cambridge University Press, […]
The Author’s Corner with William Cossen
William Cossen is a teacher in the Social Studies Department at The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology​. This interview is based on his new book, Making Catholic America: Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (Cornell University […]
The Author’s Corner with Kimberly R. Kellison
Kimberly R. Kellison is Associate Professor of History & Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Baylor University. This interview is based on her new book, Forging a Christian Order: South Carolina Baptists, Race, and Slavery, 1696–1860 […]
The Author’s Corner with Christian Goodwillie
Christian Goodwillie is Director and Curator of Special Collections at Hamilton College, Burke Library and Associate Editor of the Richard W. Couper Press. This interview is based on his new book, Richard McNemar: Frontier Heretic and Shaker Apostle (Indiana University […]
The Author’s Corner with Lerone Martin
Lerone Martin is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Chair and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. This interview is based on his new book, The […]