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Lauren D. Sawyer, "Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture" (NYU Press, 2025)

Gaining mass popularity in the mid-1990s with the True Love Waits rally on the Washington Mall, purity culture began as an urge from evangelical conservatives for Christian adolescents to publicly commit to practicing abstinence until marriage. Throu... more

22 Jan 2026 • 44 min

Christopher J. Bonura, "A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)

The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius was one of the medieval world’s most popular and widely translated texts. Composed in Syriac in Mesopotamia in the seventh century, this supposed revelation presented a new, salvific role for the Roman Empire, whose... more

19 Jan 2026 • 1 hr 16 min

Jamie Kreiner, "The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction" (Liveright, 2023)

The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction (Liveright, 2023) by Dr. Jamie Kreiner presents a revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts to defeat it can inf... more

18 Jan 2026 • 44 min

Sonia Hazard, "Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media (Oxford UP, 2025) offers a fresh account of evangelical power by uncovering how the American Tract Society (ATS) leveraged print media to spread its message across an expanding nation. One of... more

14 Jan 2026 • 47 min

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Christopher Bonura

Visiting assistant professor and distinguished lecturer at the University of Washington, assistant professor of history at Mount St. Mary's in Maryland.

University of Washington; Mount St. Mary's University

Episode: Christopher J. Bonura, "A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)

Dr. Jamie Kreiner

Professor of history at the University of Georgia

University of Georgia

Episode: Jamie Kreiner, "The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction" (Liveright, 2023)

Dr. Sonia Hazard

Author and scholar discussing her book on the American Tract Society

Oxford University Press

Episode: Sonia Hazard, "Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Christopher J. H. Wright

A scholar, author, teacher, and spiritual leader involved in world Christianity and missiology.

Langham Partnership

Episode: Christopher J. H. Wright, "The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative" (InterVarsity Press, 2025)

Helen J. Nicholson

Professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University

Cardiff University

Episode: Helen J. Nicholson, "Women and the Crusades" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Susanna Elm

Historian of the later Roman Empire, focusing on social-political dynamics and cultural history.

UC Berkeley

Episode: Susanna Elm, "The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity" (U California Press, 2025)

Paul Gutacker

Lecturer in history at Baylor University and author of "The Old Faith in a New Nation, American Protestants and the Christian Past"

Baylor University

Episode: Paul J. Gutacker, "The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Bo Tao

Lecturer in the College for Liberal Arts and Sciences at Chiba University in Japan, author of "Cooperative Evangelist, Kagawa Toyohiko and His World, 1888 to 1960"

Chiba University

Episode: Bo Tao, "Cooperative Evangelist: Kagawa Toyohiko and His World, 1888-1960" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)

Father Ron Rolheiser

Priest, theologian, and author

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Episode: Insane for the Light (Fr Ron Rolheiser, OMI)

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Morteza Hajizadeh

Host of discussions with scholars focusing on Christian studies.

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Christopher J. Bonura, "A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)

Q: What was this 7th century Syriac context and why does it matter?

This context shows how Pseudo-Methodius was addressing Christians living under Islamic rule and navigating their identity amidst these changes.

Christopher J. Bonura, "A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)

Q: Can you give us a primer on political theology or political eschatology?

It's the idea that the proper political order can be discerned from theology, where God's will pervades all of history.

Lauren D. Sawyer, "Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture" (NYU Press, 2025)

Q: What actually is it, for those of us who are less aware, and crucially, when, where, and why did it develop?

Purity culture largely developed in the early 1990s, spearheaded by youth leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention, stemming from societal anxieties surrounding sexual behavior among youth.

Lauren D. Sawyer, "Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture" (NYU Press, 2025)

Q: How do we understand accountability for those of us who are white, who grew up in purity culture?

We need to hold ourselves accountable for participating in purity culture as this sort of white supremacist system even when our choices were constrained.

Lauren D. Sawyer, "Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture" (NYU Press, 2025)

Q: Could you start us off by introducing yourself a little bit and tell us why you decided to write this book?

I'm a professor of Theology and Culture at the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. I engaged with conservative evangelicalism largely by choice and have personal experiences that pushed me to critique purity culture.

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