David C. Kirkpatrick is Assistant Professor of Religion at James Madison University. This interview is based on his new book A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). JF: What...
Melani McAlister is Professor of American Studies and International Affairs at George Washington University. This interview is based on her new book The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals (Oxford University Press, 2018). JF: What led...
Christianity is booming in the so-called Global South. Over at The Christian Century, Baylor University historian Philip Jenkins wonders why Baptists do not seem part of this great revival. Here is a taste: The relative global numbers are counterintuitive for...
I recently asked historian Benjamin Brandenburg to take some of his recent tweets on Brexit and Christianity and write them up for The Way of Improvement Leads Home. I am glad he agreed to do so. Brandenburg is an...
John T. McGreevy is I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts & Letters and Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. This interview is based on his new book, American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order...
Mary Sanders–historian, blogger, and Ph.D student, reflects on her AHA experience.–JF I spent Sunday morning at a panel on “New Directions in the Study of Global Evangelicalism,” a roundtable conversation about John Wolffe’s and Mark Hutchinson’s new book A Short...
In another manifestation of my scholarly life I did a lot of work on American fundamentalism. My master’s thesis, which I spun into a couple of articles, focused on the separatist fundamentalism of mid-20th century figures such as Carl McIntire,...
I am pleased to learn that the Conference on Faith and History (CFH) is sponsoring a conference this weekend in Mexico City that will focus on the history of Protestant identity in the Americas. The conference program includes historians from […]
Patheos is running an extended interview with Mark Noll focused on Catholic-Evangelical dialogue and global Christianity. Anything Noll has to say is worth reading. Here is a snippet from Timothy Dalrymple’s interview: Is there an evangelical mind today? Is the […]
