Eastern Christian Books

In the latter half of the 1990s I lived in an intentional community, Somerset House, that was deliberately ecumenical. One of my house-mates...

In 2015 I gave several lectures on the centenary of the genocidal massacres of Eastern Christians at Ottoman hands. The best-known of these ...

Stuck as they are by a behemoth to the north, and by the turmoil of the Middle East to the south of them, the Orthodox Christians of Georgia...

Perhaps--given the semi-regular appearance of "Ukraine" in Western headlines over the last few years, given the Russian annexation...

For many years now the questions of memory and the healing of its traumas have preoccupied me, especially in Catholic-Orthodox relations, bu...

I find there are many things to admire about the Copts, beginning with their steadfastness over many centuries in the face of changing polit...

The unwieldy title of this new book is perhaps fitting in some ways insofar as the relationship it treats is, to put it mildly, unwieldy als...

This interview with Alan Jacobs is worth your time. In it he discusses his newest book, The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an...

I have been a fan of Vigen Guroian for some time since he most unexpectedly won me over with his two books on gardening , an activity I tho...

Much has been made of resurgent Russian nationalism over the last two decades, outbreaks of which are in part behind the invasion of Ukraine...

I previously discussed in detail an earlier book by Todd McGowan, Enjoying What We Don't Have, which is an extremely insightful and hel...

When I interviewed Nicholas Denysenko recently, part of our discussion centred on the role of political theologies in shaping, and often de...

Fortress Press sends me their catalogue of new and forthcoming publications, and I spy in there the next installment in a series, this time ...

I well remember in the late 1990s there was a big gathering in Rome of what were then being called "new ecclesial movements" in th...

Earlier this year I published an article based on a lecture I gave at Baylor University in 2015. In it I examined contemporary Western Chris...

Liverpool University Press continues an invaluable service with their series Translated Texts for Historians. Past publications, as I've...

I am always delighted when good scholarship emerges just in time to help people understand the headlines. And that is certainly the case wit...