A Book for All People

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible, so named because it was commissioned by a conference of English churchmen summoned by King James I to study “things…amiss in the church.” It is difficult to remember that only a generation...

A Stark Insight

When I was a graduate student, I was introduced to the work of a sociologist of religion named Rodney Stark. Not so many years ago Stark briefly wandered over to the field of history and penned a book titled The Rise of Christianity. In this book, Stark attempts to...