Frankly Speaking

According to one estimate, in the U.S. alone more than 3,200 churches close their doors every year. On average, that’s 267 churches every m...

Cooper, Frederick. Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present . New Approaches to African History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20...

Stoler, Ann Laura. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule, With a New Preface . Berkeley, CA: Universit...

Darren Dochuk,  From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism . New York: No...

Yesterday, I came across one of the more interesting projects I've seen in a long time: comic book style renderings of biblical passages...

I'm teaching an Old Testament survey course this semester. We just began our exploration of the Israelite prophets of the 8th B.C. And t...

On Wednesday of this week, my "Introduction to World Religions" class went on a field trip to St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathed...

Huang, Ray. 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981. Non-fiction book lo...

Ansary, Tamim. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes . New York: PublicAffairs, 2009. As Americans moved past the...

Stanley Kramer’s haunting film On the Beach takes place in the aftermath of a world-wide nuclear war. It is early 1964, and the superpowers...

In the previous two posts, I described the Berlin anti-Jewish riots of 1935. How to interpret such events from the past has been, and con...

The foregoing reports match up perfectly with dispatches issued during the spring and summer of 1935 by William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to ...