Eastern Christian Books

This exciting book brings together my two favourite Oriental Orthodox churches, the Ethiopian and Armenian in a fascinating survey of cross-...

The University of California Press has just put into my hands the latest publication in their "Transformation of the Classical Heritage...

With Iran a political obsession for the United States since at least 1979 (and of course back into the 1950s), an obsession renewed lately w...

One of the interesting aspects of the study of Eastern Christianity is that the further East you go, the more you encounter people who regar...

Iran continues to be in the headlines, often simplistically portrayed as a monolithic Muslim theocracy bent on evil designs--a view helpfull...

Iran is of course regularly in the headlines over the question of its nuclear capacity and what threat if any that poses to others. Iran, si...

As I have noted before, in discussing the important work of William Cavanaugh,  the whole question, in the modern period, of what constitute...

With the recent  news of a demented and demonic Saudi fatwa demanding the destruction of all churches  in the Arab peninsula, one is confron...

Iran continues to exercise great attention in geopolitics and the media. It is often portrayed as a Muslim theocracy, but that notion overlo...

Christian-Muslim relations in Iran are much more complicated than many realize. Iran has a reputation for being a "theocracy" run ...