Bring Back the Virtues, Medieval Style

Bring Back the Virtues, Medieval Style

Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues and Vices for a Whole and Holy Life By Grace Hamman. Zondervan Academic, 2025. Hardcover, 224 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. A few years ago, my husband and I learned we were expecting a girl. As we were considering...
Is Religion Becoming Obsolete?

Is Religion Becoming Obsolete?

Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America By Christian Smith. Oxford University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 440 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Phil Davignon. The question of whether religion is dying in the United States has long intrigued social...
Protestant Institutionalism and Christian America

Protestant Institutionalism and Christian America

Religion & Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War By Miles Smith. The Davenant Press, 2024. Paperback, 350 pages, $42.95. Reviewed by Glenn Moots. Beginning in the 1970s, American Christians sensing a cultural shift engaged in a war of...
Reviving the Vanished Voice of a Maker

Reviving the Vanished Voice of a Maker

The Worlds of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Life and Works of the Crime Writer and Poet By Stephen Wade. Pen & Sword History, 2025. Hardcover, 256 pages, $39.95/£25.00. Reviewed by Adam Schwartz. In 2011, A. N. Wilson numbered Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) among authors...
Reason Reimagined: Ross Douthat’s Case for Belief 

Reason Reimagined: Ross Douthat’s Case for Belief 

Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious By Ross Douthat. Zondervan, 2025. Hardcover, 240 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Luca Frumento. In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave a lecture at the University of Regensburg explaining how Europe came to forget Christianity’s deep...