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faith and history

What I am reading: a review of Rick Kennedy’s Winds of Santa Ana

Nadya Williams   |  March 31, 2023

Winds of Santa Ana: Pilgrim Stories of the California Bight by Rick Kennedy. Wipf and Stock, 2022. 206 pp., $25.00. It is a time-tested truism of the academic profession that the best adventuring is of the armchair variety. But every […]

Are you listening to the Secondary Sources podcast?

John Fea   |  November 16, 2022

Over the years the Conference on Faith and History (CFH) has worked hard to cultivate relationships with secondary school history teachers. I have been honored over the years to be part of these initiatives and am thrilled to see this […]

Catholic historian Christopher Shannon discusses Catholic and Evangelical historiography

John Fea   |  September 9, 2022

If you have been reading Current this week you may have noticed that we featured an interview with historian Christopher Shannon and a review of his new book American Pilgrimage: A Historical Journey Through Catholic Life in a New World. […]

Can “secular liberal historians” teach Christians about the Gospel?

John Fea   |  April 26, 2022

Dan Williams is a Current contributing editor, an Anxious Bench contributor, and a professor of history at the University of West Georgia. In recent piece at the Anxious Bench, Williams reflects on all he has learned about his faith from […]

Are you registered for the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith History?

John Fea   |  February 24, 2022

As president of the Conference on Faith and History, I invite all of you to Baylor University in Waco, TX from March 31-April 2, 2022 for our biennial meeting. Lisa Diller of Southern Adventist University has put together a great […]

On John Wilsey’s review of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne

John Fea   |  February 11, 2022

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary church historian John Wilsey recently took a shot at Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne in a review published at a conservative website called Ad Fontes. Though Wilsey shows much more empathy than some […]

Conference on Faith and History postpones biennial conference

John Fea   |  September 4, 2021

From CFH president Beth Allison Barr: Dear CFH community, We have not released registration for the Baylor conference because circumstances changed this week. Although Baylor University is doing well in regards to keeping COVID numbers lower, Central Texas is not. In […]

Fides et Historia seeks a book review editor

John Fea   |  June 24, 2021

Fides et Historia is the academic journal of the Conference on Faith and History. The book review editor is responsible for producing 20–25 book reviews per issue for two annual issues. There is a longer, featured review at the beginning […]