David Woodbridge, "Missionary Primitivism and Chinese Modernity: The Brethren in Twentieth-Century China" (Brill, 2019)

David Woodbridge, "Missionary Primitivism and...

Marshall PoeMarshall Poe

Up next

Thomas Breimaier, "Tethered to the Cross: The Life and Preaching of Charles H. Spurgeon" (IVP Academic, 2020)

"Tethered to the cross" is how the renowned nineteenth-century English Baptist minister Charles H. Spurgeon (1834–1892) described the task of ministry and his approach to preaching. For nearly four decades, Spurgeon served as the pastor of the church at the Metropolitan Tabernacl ...  Show more

 . 36min 6sec
Francesca Sbardella, "Inhabiting Silence: An Anthropologist in the Cloister" (Berghahn Books, 2025)

Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by nuns who live in that world but do not allow others to have access. This has often resulted in research based on indirect sources ...  Show more

 . 37min 23sec

Recommended Episodes

#27 Brooks Buser: Thirteen Years Transcribing an Unreached Language Group in Papua New Guinea, The Forgotten Great Commission, Training the Next Generation of Linguistics Missionaries
The Modern Puritan

Brooks Buser is the president of Radius International and helps lead their campuses in Mexico and Taiwan. Brooks worked for 13 years among the YembiYembi people in Papua New Guinea. After developing an alphabet in the YembiYembi language, completing a translation of the New Testa ...  Show more

 . 2h 19min
Stephen T. Pardue, "Why Evangelical Theology Needs the Global Church" (Baker Group, 2024)
New Books in World Christianity

Christian theologians and students are aware that evangelicals in the Majority World now outnumber those in North America and Europe, and many want to know more about emerging voices in the global church. At the same time, these voices are largely absent from Western evangelical ...  Show more

 . 59min 33sec
Tam T. T. Ngo, “The New Way: Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam” (U. Washington Press, 2016)
New Books in World Christianity

Think of Christianity in Southeast Asia today and what might come to mind is the predominantly Catholic Philippines, or the work of the Baptist church among linguistic and cultural minorities in Myanmar, or any one of the thousands of Christian communities scattered throughout In ...  Show more

 . 46min 43sec
Lambeth, Birth Control, and Eugenics
The Theology Pugcast

On today's show the pugs engage an article by Oxford historian Andrew Moeller on the complicated aims and compromises of the 1930 Lambeth Conference, a watershed moment in Christianity in the West. The pugs discuss the 'gamble with the devil' that the Church of England made, with ...  Show more

 . 1h 2min