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The PloughRead: Two Thousand Years of Christian Strangeness by Tom Holland

Another Life with Joy Marie Clarkson

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The Enduring Dilemma of Christianity

As someone growing up in an anti-baptist community, one of the things you're kind of raised with is the story of the early anti- baptist mortars from the 1500s. I think it's an inherent tension within Christianity. The Jews for 2,000 tragic years have been the objects of incredible displays of Christian cruelty. So likewise have pagans, have Muslims, and over the course of the high-mid-lages, heretics as well.

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