Books In Review: What if Christianity never existed? Walter Scheidel’s tour de force of world history is based almost entirely on counterfactuals. by Tony Jones February 28, 2020
Books In Review: When Rome succumbed to the elements What brought down the Roman Empire? Kyle Harper says it was plague and cold climate. by Tony Jones June 7, 2018
Books In Review: What have the Romans ever done for us? The aqueduct. The roads. An enforced peace to allow a young faith to spread. by Tony Jones May 19, 2017
Faith Matters Unremembered In the midst of a procession of well-known stories is an image marking what's been forgotten. That's most of history, isn't it? by Stephanie Paulsell June 28, 2016
Books In Review: The Greatest Empire, by Emily Wilson Emily Wilson offers a carefully balanced narrative of Seneca's life that is derived, as it must be, from partial and often contradictory sources. reviewed by George Dennis O’Brien July 22, 2015
Books In Review: Coming Out Christian in the Roman World, by Douglas Boin The "Fall of Rome...is not a historical event; it's more akin to a theological idea." So proclaims Douglas Boin, sacking the understanding of early Christian identity that has prevailed since at least the second century. reviewed by Greg Carey April 12, 2015
Books Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph, by Jas Elsner and The Clash of Gods, by Thomas F. Mathews reviewed by Cliff Edwards August 24, 1999