In this edition of the Reading Wheel Review, Dr. Jordan Ballor, executive director of First Liberty’s Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy, interviews Dr. Paul Marshall, Wilson Professor of Religious Freedom at Baylor University. They discuss Marshall’s book, Called to Be Friends, Called to Serve, which documents the long and fruitful
While Robert Nisbet is best known for his diagnoses in The Quest for Community regarding social disintegration and individual alienation in the modern era, he also has profound things to say about the kinds of communities people have formed over the centuries and the dynamics of those communities. In The Social Philosophers, Nisbet
A few words on the general nature of this book will perhaps be of use to both students and general readers. I regard the book as falling in the area bounded by what is commonly called intellectual history on the one hand and social history on the other. The title
