released 12/1/2023

In an essay titled “Navigating between Reactionary Traditionalism and Naïve Modernism,” medieval scholar Nicholas Babich discusses some works of Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914). Best known for his dystopian novel Lord of the World, Benson also wrote other fictional works that are virtually unknown. Babich focuses attention on The Light Invisible (1906) and A Mirror of Shalott (1907), both of which present a more subtle account of being a Christian in the world than does Lord of the World.

This Feature presents a reading of Babich’s article, which was originally published by Church Life Journal.

30 minutes

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Sociologist David Martin died on March 8th. Martin was best known for his pioneering critique of secularization as a uniform theory of social process and his pioneering work on Pentecostalism in Latin America. In this 2007 interview with Ken Myers, Martin talks about how the cultural shifts of the 1960s were the fruition of previous changes in the 1890s and 1930s.

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