Parachurching in: Chris Lehmann on Billy Graham
This week, as our media feeds fill up with a wild proliferation of takes on influential megapreacher Billy Graham, who died Wednesday at the age of ninety-nine, there’s only one voice… Read more »
Joel Osteen at the Drowning Point
“In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, someone is always at the drowning point.”—Nathanael Hawthorne Joel Osteen, the sunny New South avatar of America’s new… Read more »
Today in paperback: Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult
Go into the world and preach this good news to everyone: Today, we’re publishing Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult in paperback. In the tradition of writers like Charles C. Mann and Jill Lepore,… Read more »
Melville House authors respond to the 2016 election
There will be no shortage of commentary in the coming days about what just happened. It will be an inundating, heartbreaking deluge of information to contend with, to parse, to… Read more »
Tim LaHaye dies; his legacy and that of his Left Behind series are here to stay
Tim LaHaye, author of the fantastically successful Left Behind series, died last Monday. A Wall Street Journal obituary by James R. Hagerty describes him as “an evangelical pastor who interpreted Biblical prophecies, advised… Read more »
Checking in on our early-summer authors
Hail the mighty authors of Melville House! For the first half of the summer, while you were stalking Butterfree between the stacks, chilling with a beach read, or standing over the… Read more »