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historical reading

Belated book suggestions

Jon D. Schaff   |  November 26, 2024

Jon Schaff recommends two new books: Miles Smith, Religion and Republic; and Luke Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

Post-election reading list: books to encourage and discourage

Nadya Williams   |  November 7, 2024

A short, idiosyncratic, and utterly eclectic post-election reading list of books that might encourage or discourage.

Eerdmans books: kindle sale alert and book recs

Nadya Williams   |  October 21, 2024

Need some new kindle reads? Here’s a list!

What are Current editors looking forward to reading this fall?

Nadya Williams   |  September 20, 2024

Current Contributing Editors and Editors share about a few of the books they’re looking forward to reading in the coming months.

Reads of the year for living in modernity

Christopher J. Lane   |  December 20, 2023

What is the place of human beings–and especially religiously-convicted human beings–in “modernity”? Here is my list of reads of the year to answer this question.

What I am reading: John Ferling

John Ferling   |  July 25, 2023

Summer is the season for reading, whether re-reading old favorites or finding new ones—on your porch, in a cabin in the woods (bears optional), or at the playground or the beach. Because there have been so many wonderful essays on […]

What I am reading: John Ferling

John Ferling   |  February 17, 2023

I am working on a book on America’s Revolutionary War, so most of my reading of late has focused on that conflict. But I am a voracious and omnivorous reader and I break away from the eighteenth century when possible, […]