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Lucy Donkin, "Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages" (Cornell UP, 2022)

Dr. Lucy Donkin’s Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 2022) illuminates how the floor surface shaped the ways in which people in Medieval Western Europe and beyond experienced sacred spaces.

The ground beneath our f... more

9 Feb 2026 • 1 hr 8 min

Kevin Hart, "Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

In Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation (U Chicago Press, 2023), Kevin Hart develops a new hermeneutics of contemplation through a meditation on Christian thought and secular philosophy. Drawing on Kant, Schopenhauer, Coleridge, and Huss... more

5 Feb 2026 • 1 hr 17 min

Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga, "The Chronicle of John of Nikiu: Coping with Crisis in Post-Roman Egypt" (U California Press, 2025)

In the midst of profound political changes in late seventh-century Egypt, after the end of Roman hegemony and during Islamic rule, a bishop named John from the city of Nikiu sat down to pen a chronicle. It is a puzzling and fascinating work that reim... more

2 Feb 2026 • 1 hr 21 min

David Albertson, "The Geometry of Christian Contemplation: Measure Without Measure" (Oxford UP, 2025)

The writings of ancient and medieval Christian mystics were rediscovered in the twentieth century, and today they are read more widely than ever before. But do modern assumptions about religious experience influence how we hear those premodern voices... more

27 Jan 2026 • 1 hr 4 min

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Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga

Assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee Knoxville

University of Tennessee Knoxville

Episode: Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga, "The Chronicle of John of Nikiu: Coping with Crisis in Post-Roman Egypt" (U California Press, 2025)

David Albertson

Professor at the University of Southern California, author of 'The Geometry of Christian Contemplation'

University of Southern California

Episode: David Albertson, "The Geometry of Christian Contemplation: Measure Without Measure" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Christopher Bonura

Visiting assistant professor and distinguished lecturer at the University of Washington, assistant professor of history at Mount St. Mary's in Maryland.

University of Washington; Mount St. Mary's University

Episode: Christopher J. Bonura, "A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)

Dr. Jamie Kreiner

Professor of history at the University of Georgia

University of Georgia

Episode: Jamie Kreiner, "The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction" (Liveright, 2023)

Dr. Sonia Hazard

Author and scholar discussing her book on the American Tract Society

Oxford University Press

Episode: Sonia Hazard, "Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Christopher J. H. Wright

A scholar, author, teacher, and spiritual leader involved in world Christianity and missiology.

Langham Partnership

Episode: Christopher J. H. Wright, "The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative" (InterVarsity Press, 2025)

Helen J. Nicholson

Professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University

Cardiff University

Episode: Helen J. Nicholson, "Women and the Crusades" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Susanna Elm

Historian of the later Roman Empire, focusing on social-political dynamics and cultural history.

UC Berkeley

Episode: Susanna Elm, "The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity" (U California Press, 2025)

Paul Gutacker

Lecturer in history at Baylor University and author of "The Old Faith in a New Nation, American Protestants and the Christian Past"

Baylor University

Episode: Paul J. Gutacker, "The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)

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Christopher J. Bonura, "A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)

Q: What was this 7th century Syriac context and why does it matter?

This context shows how Pseudo-Methodius was addressing Christians living under Islamic rule and navigating their identity amidst these changes.

Christopher J. Bonura, "A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)

Q: Can you give us a primer on political theology or political eschatology?

It's the idea that the proper political order can be discerned from theology, where God's will pervades all of history.

Lauren D. Sawyer, "Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture" (NYU Press, 2025)

Q: What actually is it, for those of us who are less aware, and crucially, when, where, and why did it develop?

Purity culture largely developed in the early 1990s, spearheaded by youth leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention, stemming from societal anxieties surrounding sexual behavior among youth.

Lauren D. Sawyer, "Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture" (NYU Press, 2025)

Q: How do we understand accountability for those of us who are white, who grew up in purity culture?

We need to hold ourselves accountable for participating in purity culture as this sort of white supremacist system even when our choices were constrained.

Lauren D. Sawyer, "Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture" (NYU Press, 2025)

Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?

I'm a professor of Theology and Culture at the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. I engaged with conservative evangelicalism largely by choice and have personal experiences that pushed me to critique purity culture.

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