"In To Change the Church, Douthat explains why the particular debate Francis has opened?over communion for the divorced and the remarried?is so dangerous: How it cuts to the heart of the larger argument over how Christianity should respond to the sexual revolution and modernity itself, how it promises or threatens to separate the church from its own deep past, and how it divides Catholicism along geographical and cultural lines. Douthat argues that...

A religious scholar challenges fad theories pertaining to such popular testaments as the "Jesus Papers" and the "Gnostic teachings," examining figures from Jesus' inner circle and what their lives reveal about the historical Jesus.

Presents a revelatory and deeply intimate exploration of the world of early Mormon women that draws on nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts created by first-generation Latter-Day Saints. "A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told...