“That’s Jesus, Mama!” shouted my cousin’s exuberant daughter, Claire. Her mother was reading to her not from the gospels, but from the climactic scene of The...
Author - James P. Cahill
Directed by Ridley Scott (20th Century Fox, 2014) Exodus: Gods and Kings tells what should be a familiar story: A man raised as Pharaoh’s son discovers...
As I begin to write this, I’m sitting in the observation car of the California Zephyr. The time approaches 10 p.m., and the endless plains of Nebraska recede...
By Lawrence J. McAndrews (University of Georgia, 2014) The election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 has long been described as the apogee of Catholic political life...
By Diarmaid MacCulloch (Viking Adult, 2013) Surely Diarmaid MacCulloch appreciates the irony that after publishing the gargantuan Christianity: The First Three...
By Paula Fredriksen (Princeton, 2012) While it sounds a daunting task to explore the shifting Christian idea of sin as it progressed through the first four...
By W. Merle Longwood et al (Wipf & Stock, 2011) A primary stated goal of Forging the Male Spirit: The Spiritual Lives of American College Men is to answer...