A trilogy on religious and political conservatism in modern America.

The Macedonian ascendancy.

Much of what we think is new is old.

George Whitefield sans hagiography.

Whitefield’s place in American history.

A 1st-century Christian and a 9th-century church in Rome.

On Thomas Malthus.

Formidable Hannah More.

And the year that changed his course.

The inner life of an 18th-century Protestant capitalist.

A genially revisionist biography.

Rethinking persecution and martyrdom in the early church.

The early Arab conquests and the rise of Islam.

Thomas Pfau and the irreducible mystery of personhood.

A cautionary lesson for Christian historians.

Clarifying the "secular."

The long history of news media.

Most of what you think you know is wrong.

On Ellen Harmon White and Seventh-day Adventism.

Britain's fascination with Egyptology.