Richard Carwardine

1 month ago | clearlyreformed.org | Richard Carwardine |Richard Brookhiser |Katy Faust |Stacy Manning

The triumvirate comes back together to wrap up another season of LBE. Along with the obligatory sports chatter, the three guys talk at length about the first Midwest Pope (and why they are not Catholics) and about life in middle age (and why they are not too depressed). There are, of course, many book recommendations as well. Books & Everything Kevin’s Reading ListReligious Freedom: A Conservative Primer by John D. WilseyPrinceton and the Work of the Christian Ministry (2 Vols.) by James M.

Dec 2, 2024 | theamericanscholar.org | Robert Wilson |Richard Carwardine

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Union by Richard Carwardine; Knopf, 624 pp., $35In the decades between George Washington’s first presidential inauguration and Abraham Lincoln’s, nearly 50,000 church structures sprang up in the young nation, “sacralizing the landscape,” as the Welsh historian Richard Carwardine writes in this deeply researched new study.