Frankly Speaking

May, Henry F. The Enlightenment in America . New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. May says that before he wrote this book he went expl...

"To the eyes of the Puritan faithful, Scripture presented a dramatic panorama which moved from Creation to Redemption to Resurrection ...

Knight, Janice. Orthodoxies in Massachusetts: Rereading American Puritanism . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. In this caref...

On Sunday, April 29th, I went to worship with my home congregation, the San Jacinto Church of Christ in Amarillo, TX. Nothing unusual abo...

What follows is not a critical book review of Stephen Foster's, The Long Argument.  At the beginning, I do say a few things about the c...

For a few years now, I've wanted to travel to two Turkeys. I've now visited one. That country in Asia? The scene of some of the most...

Benedict, Philip. Christ’s Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. Philip Be...

Morgan, Edmund S. Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea . New York: New York University Press, 1963. In this book, Edmund Morgan t...

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...