New Books in Catholic Studies
Episodes
Teresa Morgan, "The New Testament and the Theology of Trust" (Oxford UP, 2022)
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The New Testament and the Theology of Trust (Oxford UP, 2022) argues for the recovery of trust as a central theme in Christian theology, and offers t...
Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2024) by Sara J. Charles takes the reader on an immersive journey through mediae...
Nicholas Orme, "Going to Church in Medieval England" (Yale UP, 2021)
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For people in medieval England, the parish church was an integral part of their community. In Going to Church in Medieval England (Yale University P...
Kristie Flannery, "Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in t...
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., "Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This autobiography--Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story (Bloomsbury, 2024)--traces Francis X. Clooney's intellectual and spiritual j...
Mark Letteney, "The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations (Cambridge UP, 2023) traces the beginning of Late Ant...
Robert Weis, "For Christ and Country: Militant Catholic Youth in Post-Revolutionary Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why did José de León Toral kill Álvaro Obregón, leader of the Mexican Revolution? So far, historians have characterized the motivations of the you...
What Would Jesus Say about Diversity and Inclusion? (with Pete Imperial)
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Imperial has been principal of St. Mary’s Catholic High School in Berkeley, California, a Lasallian Catholic School of 160 years and going stro...
The (ir)Rational Priests: On Ignacio Martín-Baró and Liberation Psychology
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A group of landholding elites waged psychological warfare on the El Salvadoran people, and oppressed them for generations. When a psychologist and Jes...
Elizabeth Aislinn O'Brien, "Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940" (UNC Press, 2023)
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Surgery & Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), Elizabeth O’Brien for...
Verso l’Alto (with Christine Wohar)
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christine Wohar talks about Finding Frassati: And Following His Path to Holiness (EWTN, 2021), her book about Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. The boo...
Peter Murray Jones, "The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friars are often overlooked in the picture of health care in late mediaeval England. Physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, barbers, midwives - these are...
Denva Gallant, "Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Penn State UP, 2024)
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
During the fourteenth century in Western Europe, there was a growing interest in imitating the practices of a group of hermits known as the Desert Fat...
Matthew Goldmark, "Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation:...
Hank Willenbrink, "Performing for the Don: Theatres of Faith in the Age of Trump" (Routledge, 2024)
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From his overwhelming embrace by evangelicals and other people of faith to his championing of policies and conservative judicial candidates long sough...
Genji Yasuhira, "Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic: Agency in Coexistence and the Public Sphere in Utrecht, 1620-1672" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Even in adversity, Catholics exercised considerable agency in post-Reformation Utrecht. Through the political practices of repression and toleration, ...
Carlos M. N. Eire, "They Flew: A History of the Impossible" (Yale UP, 2023)
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the early modern era, seemingly impossible stories of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft were common and believable. The important question o...
Laurence M. Geary, "The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting" (Cork UP, 2023)
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, he discusses his new book The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting (Cork UP, 2023), a collection of interco...
Timothy Morton, "Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology" (Columbia UP, 2024)
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hell on earth is real. The toxic fusion of big oil, Evangelical Christianity, and white supremacy has ignited a worldwide inferno, more phantasmagoric...
Bronagh Ann McShane, "Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration (Boydell & Brewer, 2022) by Dr. Bronagh Ann McShane investigates...
Late Have I Loved You (with John Michael Talbott)
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Michael Talbott is a tremendously successful musician and writer; he is also the founder of a monastery—the Brothers and Sisters of Charity at ...
Sergio M. González, "Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Wisconsin has always been my home. It’s not a place, however, where I’ve always felt at home,” (ix) declares Dr. Sergio M. González in the f...
Stephanie Joy Mawson, "Incomplete Conquests: The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines" (Cornell UP, 2023)
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"When the Spanish colonization of the Philippines began in 1565, early reports boasted of mass conversions to Christianity and ever-increasing numbers...
Helen J. Nicholson, "Women and the Crusades" (Oxford UP, 2023)
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration. Helen J. Nicholson's book Wo...
Jerome’s Tears (with David Bonagura Jr.): Death and Mourning in Christian Late Antiquity
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor David Bonagura, theologian and Latinist, has translated and edited seven of St. Jerome’s letters dealing with death and mourning. This doc...
Lauren Horn Griffin, "Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England: History, Rhetoric, and the Origins of Christianity" (Brill, 2023)
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England: History, Rhetoric, and the Origins of Christianity (Brill, 2023) argues that in order to understand na...
Jaime M. Pensado, "Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico" (U California Press, 2023)
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 21st century has witnessed a revolution in how historians approach the study of Roman Catholicism. Long trapped in an unbridgeable chasm between ...
Knocking at the Brothel Door (with Michael John Cusick)
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael John Cusick argues that our addictions and disordered sexual desires are really a misdirected effort to reach God and live in connection with ...
Marion R. Casey, "The Green Space: The Transformation of the Irish Image" (NYU Press, 2024)
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marion Casey is a professor at Glucksman Ireland House at New York University where she also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. She has publ...
Julia G. Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War" (Oxford UP, 2019)
05 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War (Oxford University Press, 2019), Julia G. Young reframes the Cristero War a...
Markus Vinzent, "Resetting the Origins of Christianity: A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we know what we know about the origins of the Christian religion? Neither its founder, nor the Apostles, nor Paul left any written accounts of ...
Charles E. Curran, "Loyal Dissent: Memoir of a Catholic Theologian" (Georgetown UP, 2006)
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of our 60th anniversary in 2024, we'll be revisiting some classic Georgetown books. First up is Loyal Dissent by Charles E. Curran....
Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
St. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St. Patrick, she established a monastery for men an...
Catholic in Palestine (with Fr Firas Abedrabbo)
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There have been Christians in the Holy Land for two thousand years; “we are the first church,” says Father Firas Abedrabbo who is from Bethlehem a...
Claudio Ferlan, "The Jesuits: A Thematic History" (Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2023)
06 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In The Jesuits: A Thematic History (Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2023), Claudio Ferlan provides an exploration of the tradition of the Society of Je...
Marie de Vignerot, Richelieu's Forgotten Advisor and Heiress
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite being one of the most influential women of 17th century France, Marie de Vignerot has been largely forgotten. The niece, heiress, and advisor ...
Paola Tartakoff, "Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious inter...
The Wood Between the Worlds (with Brian Zahnd)
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For Christians, the central event in history and in universe is the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago. This killing of God ...
Miracle Man (with Joe McGivney)
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lifelong alcoholic Joe McGivney drank himself into brain damage and permanent disability. The day after being placed into the assisted care he would n...
Harriet Lyon, "Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The dissolution of the monasteries was recalled by individuals and communities alike as a seismic rupture in the religious, cultural, and socio-econom...
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual...
Gwyn McClelland, "Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives" (Routledge, 2019)
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On 9th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians, representing over six...
Ed Simon, "Relic" (Bloomsbury. 2024)
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Object Lessons is a Bloomsbury series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book, Relic, by Dr. Ed S...
Homo sapiens catholicus (with Jeremy Holmes)
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Theology Professor Jeremy Holmes of Wyoming Catholic College teaches a class called “Science and Theology,” which is about the Darwin’s theory o...
Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Though commonly used today to identify a polity that lasted for over a millennium, the label “Byzantine empire” is an anachronism imposed by more ...
The Good Fire: Theology of Stewardship & Controlled Burning (with Peter Hess)
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Hess (Ph.D, FFT2) is a theologian, an environmental scientist, a wildland fire practitioner, and firefighter type two. I ask Peter about this wo...
Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As per William Shakespeare, ‘all the world’s a stage’. But what if the human soul was a stage too? What if the stage of the world and the stage ...
Nicholas Morton, "The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187" (Oxford UP, 2020)
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Morton’s The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187 (Oxford UP, 2020) explores the military history of the m...
Jane Ohlmeyer, "Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Empire and imperial frameworks, policies, practices, and cultures have shaped the history of the world for the last two millennia. It is nation states...
"Apocalypto" and Mel Gibson (with Jonathon Fessenden)
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 2006 Mel Gibson movie, Apocalypto, takes us into a decadent Maya civilization in the Yucatan on the eve of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. It cou...
Matthew Carr, "Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614" (Hurst, 2017)
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A centuries-old story with remarkable contemporary resonance, Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614 (Hurst, 2017) is celebrated jo...
The Men We Need (with Brant Hansen)
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“What is a man?” asks Hamlet. If all he does is “sleep and feed,” then “a beast, no more.” That’s not enough for Hamlet, and it’s not ...
Marcy Norton, "The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492" (Harvard UP, 2024)
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 (Harvard University Press, 2024), Dr. Marcy Norton offers a dramatic new interpretation of t...
Margaret M. McGuinness, "Katharine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision" (Paulist Press, 2023)
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Although Katharine Drexel has been the subject of several biographies, they have tended to treat her as a perfect human being whom the Church later tr...
Max Deardorff, "A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1570's New Kingdom of Granada (modern Colombia), a new generation of mestizo (half-Spanish, half-indigenous) men sought positions of increasing pow...
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have John Christopoulos, Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, to talk about his new book, Abortion in Earl...
Kathy Stuart, "Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin and Salvation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their ex...
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 6: A Medieval Anti-Racist
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism? What if the condemnation of injustice gave rise both to an early form of anti-racism and to...
Our Lady of Guadalupe and Aztec True Myth
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It turns out that our familiar narrative of the Virgin of Guadalupe, when Mary appeared to Juan Diego in 1531 and left her image on his tilma, resemb...
Gregory J. Goalwin, "Borders of Belief: Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Despite theories to the contrary, religious nationalism, and the use of religion to determine membership in the national community, has continued to p...
Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State (Princeton University Press, 2023), political scientist Anna Grzymała...
J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus" (Fortress Press, 2023)
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In his book Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus (Fortress Press, 2023), J. Christopher Edwards explores the early...
Daniel Jütte, "Transparency: The Material History of an Idea" (Yale UP, 2023)
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Transparency is a mantra of our day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society. We expect transparency from, for instance, political...
D. L. d'Avray, "The Power of Protocol: Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c. 400-c.1600" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Power of Protocol: Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c. 400 – c.1600 (Cambridge University Press, 2023) by Dr. David d’Avray ...
Jenny Benham, "International Law in Europe, 700–1200" (Manchester UP, 2022)
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Was there international law in the Middle Ages? Using treaties as its main source, International Law in Europe, 700-1200 (Manchester University Pres...
Darwinian Accident or Divine Architect? (with Jay Richards)
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Richards PhD, OP discusses the new book to which he contributed a chapter, God’s Grandeur: The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design (Sophia In...
Let Us Make Man in Our Image (with Paul Louis Metzger)
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our talk about his book, More than Things: A Personalist Ethics for a Throwaway Culture (InterVarsity Press, 2023), and in addition to quoting Po...
Live from Israel (with Fr. Piotr Zelazko)
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Father Piotr Zelazko is Vicar for the St. James Vicariate in Jerusalem and has been priest in Israel for fifteen years (he is a native of Poland and s...
Ji Li, "At the Frontier of God's Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China" (Oxford UP, 2023)
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the early twentieth century, At the Frontier of God's Empire: A Missionary Ody...
Kids These Days (with Jane Sloan Peters)
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Sloan Peters remembers World Youth Day in Toronto back in 2002 when she was a teenager. She also talks about being a young mother and a teacher; ...
A. Katie Harris, "The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha: Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the night of March 18, 1655, two Spanish friars broke into a church to steal the bones of the founder of their religious institution, the Order of ...
Gina A. Zurlo, "Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023)
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gina A. Zurlo's book Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023) is the first textbook to focus ...
Benjamin Savill, "England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, C. 680-1073" (Oxford UP, 2023)
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, c. 680-1073 (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Benjami...
Martina Mampieri, "Living Under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah Ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (Brill, 2019)
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Living under the Evil Pope (Brill, 2019), Martina Mampieri presents the Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV, written in the second half of the six...
Hammertime and Hanukkah (with Matthew and Leeanne Thomas)
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Between 167 and 160 BC, Judas Maccabeus and his brothers led a revolt against the Greek tyrant who desecrated the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. Miraculo...
Brides of Christ (with Sr Mary Josefa of the Eucharist)
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sister Mary Josefa of the Eucharist is a Benedictine nun in Missouri; she and the sisters of her community recently wrote a charming children’s book...
Neil Tarrant, "Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Tarrant challenges conventional thinking by looking at the longer history of censorship, considering a five-hundred-year continuity of goals and ...
A Better Way to Buy Books
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...
Religion and Politics in the Lord of the Rings
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork The Lord of the Rings delighted so many of us as children, yet it and its vast body of accompanying work, such as the S...
Kerry P. C. San Chirico. "Between Hindu and Christian: Khrist Bhaktas, Catholics, and the Negotiation of Devotion in Banaras" (Oxford UP, 2022)
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the second Saturday of each month, on the outskirts of the ancient city of Varanasi, Shiva's own city, thousands of shudra and Dalit devotees worsh...
Kathleen M. Osberger, "I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975" (Oribis Books, 2023)
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Kathleen Osberger about her book I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975 (Oribis Books, 2023). In 1975, Kathleen Os...
Matthew W. Knotts, "On Creation, Science, Disenchantment and the Contours of Being and Knowing" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For Augustine, the world is replete with meaning; it represents not merely a collection of facts to be catalogued but a repository of truths to be dis...
Jaime M. Pensado, "Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico" (U California Press, 2023)
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Love and Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico (U California Press, 2023) explores the multiple and ...
Who’s Afraid of the Catholic Integralists? (with Kevin Vallier)
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Vallier is a philosophy professor and author of All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism (Oxford UP, 202...
The Seven Deadly Sins (with Fr Chris Pietraszko)
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Father Chris Pietraszko has been thinking about sin and redemption for the last year and a half as he has been writing a series of articles that will ...
Erin Raffety, "From Inclusion to Justice: Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership" (Baylor UP, 2022)
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
American Christianity tends to view disabled persons as problems to be solved rather than people with experiences and gifts that enrich the church. Ch...
Adam Jasienski, "Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World" (Penn State UP, 2023)
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Penn State University Press, 2023), art historian Adam...
Jennifer L. Holland, "Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement" (U California Press, 2020)
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sandie Holguín speaks with Jennifer L. Holland about her book, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement (University of California ...
The Fourth Wise Man (with Jonathon Fessenden)
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathon Fessenden, theologian and editor of Missio Dei, invited me to talk about The Fourth Wise Man, the 1985 film based on the 1895 Henry van Dy...
When Did We See You a Stranger and Welcome You? (with Ben Metcalf)
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The poor have always been with us, even in a rich country and a prosperous time. I ask Ben Metcalf, former Secretary of Housing and Community Developm...
Joel D. Anderson, "Reimagining Christendom: Writing Iceland's Bishops Into the Roman Church, 1200-1350" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With its expanding legal system and its burgeoning throngs of lawyers, legates, and documents, the papacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries h...
Paul Hanebrink, "In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944" (Cornell UP, 2018)
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this important historical account of the role that religion played in defining the political life of a modern national society, Paul A. Hanebrink s...
What Jesus Intended (with Bishop Todd Hunter)
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bishop Todd Hunter is an Anglican Bishop in Tennessee and author of What Jesus Intended: Finding Faith in the Rubble of Bad Religion (IVP, 2023). He...
Judith Roumani, "Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2020)
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The province of Grosseto in southern Tuscany shows two extremes in the treatment of Italian and foreign Jews during the Holocaust. To the east of the ...
Master Craftsman, Broken Tools (with Fr. Chris Alar, MIC)
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Father Chris talks about his devotion to Our Lady, and what he has learned from St. Maria Faustyna Kowalska, the poor Polish country girl, whose visio...
Love Them Both (with Kimberly Bird)
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kimberly Bird is vice president of external relations of Live Action, an online media advocacy and education organization that works to shift public ...
David Tavárez, "Rethinking Zapotec Time: Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico" (U Texas Press, 2022)
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor David Tavárez, historian and linguistic anthropologist, is Professor of Anthropology and at Vassar College. He is a specialist in Nahuatl a...
Eric Vanden Eykel, "The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate" (Fortress Press, 2022)
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Magi: Who They Were, How They’ve Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate (Fortress Press, 2022) is Eric Vanden Eykel’s second monograph...
Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, "Stereotyping Religion II: Critiquing Clichés" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Building on the success of Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés, this follow up volume dismantles a further 10 widespread stereotypes and cli...
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, "The Great Western Schism, 1378-1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Great Schism divided Western Christianity between 1378 and 1417. Two popes and their courts occupied the see of St. Peter, one in Rome, and one in...