Augustine of Hippo was one of the Fathers of Western Christianity, a Doctor of the Church. No theologian was more widely revered in medieval Europe, and his thought continues to…

Download or Stream this Episode In today’s episode, Coyle and Jordan offer the second episode of our occasional series looking at Roman politics. They turn their attention to the collapse…

The difference between Eastern and Western traditions of Christianity is made visible by many marks, but none more distinctly than the Eastern icon. Their regular visual style, following ancient and…

Download or Stream this Episode Happy New Year! In today’s episode, Coyle launches a new series of occasional podcasts, Ancient Asides, with Jordan Poss, who frequently appears on the Sectarian…

For a while now, there’s been in American Evangelicalism a growing sense that not all is well, that we have drifted, that we have lost touch with our world and…

Download or Stream this Episode This episode continues Sectarian Review’s discussion of historical memory, the value of forgetting, and what to do about Confederate flags. Part II Protesting Building names…

Introductions Listener Mail Knowing Controversies surrounding the 2016 film Our experiences of the 1984 film Did we like the remake? Reading Violet Ramis Stiel on Ghostbusters Chaz Ebert on Ghostbusters…

Ora et labora: Pray and work. This directive has ordered the life of Benedictine monastics for centuries, each day’s rhythm of worship and toil shaping the soul toward love and…

Knowing Background on Hamilton  and Lin-Manuel Miranda How we discovered the show and why it’s interesting Songs we love: “Burn,” “Guns and Ships,” “The Schuyler Sisters” Reading The Villain in Your…

In this episode Danny Anderson speaks with Jay Eldred about the evangelical historian, David Barton, once named by Time as one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America. Danny…

Like earlier Pietists, Mark and I tend to feel like what we have to suggest isn’t all that new. This episode — like the one before it — we revisited an idea…

So what is “Pietism”? I’m not sure that a fifty-minute episode of this or any podcast can resolve a discussion that’s been dividing scholars for(seemingly)ever. But Mark and I gave…

On August 28, 430 AD, as a Vandal army lay in siege around his beloved city, Bishop Augustine of Hippo Regius died and left Christendom a legacy. In the centuries…

Before the wars in Middle-earth, before the battles of Narnia, there was a war in Europe—the Great War, the war to end war, that fell tragically short of that dream…

For most American Evangelicals, monasticism is a closed book, little understood, and appreciated even less. Yet throughout most of Christian history, East and West, and even today, monasticism has been…