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Ayoush Lazikani, "The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing" (Yale UP, 2025)

When they gazed at the moon, medieval people around the globe saw an object that was at once powerful and fragile, distant and intimate—and sometimes all this at once. The moon could convey love, beauty, and gentleness; but it could also be about pai... more

Yesterday • 37 min

Melanie McDonagh, "Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century" (Yale UP, 2025)

The twentieth century is understood as an era of growing, inexorable secularism, yet in Britain between the 1890s and the 1960s there was a marked turn to Rome. In the first half of the century, Catholicism became an intellectual and spiritual fashio... more

Yesterday • 52 min

Steve Tibble, "Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood" (Yale UP, 2025)

The Assassins and the Templars. Two groups that are now part of popular legend–and not just because of Assassin’s Creed, the massive video game franchise starring the former as its heroes, and the latter as its villains.

Steve Tibble takes on both ... more

4 Dec 2025 • 47 min

Reading the Bible with AI?: A Conversation with John Kaag, Philosopher and Co-Founder of Rebind AI

Rebind combines reading with AI-chat to deepen learning and simulate the experience of conversing with some of the greatest scholars and thinkers. With Rebind, you can read A Tale of Two Cities with Margaret Atwood, Huck Finn with Marlon James, and C... more

3 Dec 2025 • 42 min

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Dr. Ayoush Lazikani

Lecturer at the University of Oxford, specialist in medieval literature

University of Oxford

Episode: Ayoush Lazikani, "The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing" (Yale UP, 2025)

Steve Tibble

Honorary research associate at Royal Holloway University of London and author of several historical books including the discussed work.

Royal Holloway University of London

Episode: Steve Tibble, "Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood" (Yale UP, 2025)

John Kaag

Co-founder of Rebind Publishing and professor of philosophy at UMass Lowell

Rebind Publishing

Episode: Reading the Bible with AI?: A Conversation with John Kaag, Philosopher and Co-Founder of Rebind AI

Dr. David Chanoff

A visiting research professor at Brandeis University and biographer of Anthony Benezet

Brandeis University

Episode: David Chanoff, "Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

Lara Silverman

Former federal prosecutor, author, and advocate for finding joy in suffering

Author of Singing Through Fire

Episode: Lara Silverman, "Singing Through Fire: A Memoir of Finding Surprising Joy in Life's Darkest Trials" (Isaiah 4320 Press, 2025)

Artur Sebastian Rosman

Associate Research Professor at Notre Dame and Editor-in-Chief of Church Life Journal

University of Notre Dame

Episode: Józef Tischner, "The Philosophy of Drama" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)

J. Stephen Yuille

Editor of The Works of John Cotton and professor of Church History and Spiritual Formation

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Episode: Stephen Yuille ed., "The Works of John Cotton, Volumes 1-5" (Soli Deo Gloria Ministries, 2025)

Hugo Méndez

Associate professor in ancient Mediterranean religions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Episode: Hugo Méndez, "The Gospel of John: A New History" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Father Francis L. Sampson

A veteran of the Second World War and the Korean War, and a chaplain with the 101st Airborne Division.

Catholic University of America Press

Episode: Francis L. Sampson, "Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre" (Catholic U of America Press, 2023)

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Miranda Melcher

A host who engages scholars in discussions about their work, emphasizing the intersection of academia and practical applications of faith studies.

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Melanie McDonagh, "Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century" (Yale UP, 2025)

Q: How did World War I impact conversions in terms of both scale, but also reasons?

If you know that there's a very lively possibility that you'll die within weeks when you're sent to Flanders, that it does concentrate the mind. And the Catholic Church did offer the forgiveness of sins, which was something that was profoundly important for many people who are facing likely death.

Melanie McDonagh, "Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century" (Yale UP, 2025)

Q: What, if anything, is significant or was seen as significant at the time, that Oscar Wilde does convert to Catholicism, but he does it on his deathbed?

Oscar Wilde was always influenced by Newman, and Newman he was very familiar with. His earlier reading and earlier inclinations came back to him after that devastating experience in prison.

Melanie McDonagh, "Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century" (Yale UP, 2025)

Q: Can you give us a sense of that scale? Like how many roughly converts are we thinking about?

The figures in the early period would have been about 3,000 a year for the first decade of the century. And we do have actual figures from about 1911, which was just over 3,000. But the real period of growth was in the Great War.

Melanie McDonagh, "Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century" (Yale UP, 2025)

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

I'm a journalist primarily. I do also have an academic background in that I did a PhD at Cambridge in Medieval History. But I am primarily a journalist and I write for the Evening Standard and for the Spectator and for other papers.

Ayoush Lazikani, "The Medieval Moon: A History of Haunting and Blessing" (Yale UP, 2025)

Q: Can you tell us how did the Islamic and Christian traditions interpret lunar phenomena, such as eclipses, as a sign of divine intervention?

Dr. Lazikani describes the different interpretations in Islamic and Christian theology regarding the moon, illustrating its cosmic significance and representation of miracles.

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