Today's featured title: "Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century," by Melanie McDonagh, Yale University Press, 2026 @yalepress.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Today's featured title: "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000," by Martha Rampton, Cornell University Press, 2026 @cornellupress.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Today's featured title: "The People's Patriarch: Tikhon Bellavin and the Orthodox Church in North America and Revolutionary Russia," by Scott M. Kenworthy, Oxford University Press, 2025 @academic.oup.com @profkenworthy.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

We look forward to hosting our first joint event with @aschurchhistory.bsky.social on Scottish-American church connections. For more info and to book - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-a...

The call for papers for the Ecclesiastical History Society's summer conference on the Church and Race is now open! Consider applying, more information here: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/

Today's featured title: "Cooperative Evangelist: Kagawa Toyohiko and His World, 1888–1960," by Bo Tao, University of Hawai’i Press, 2025 uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/cooper...

Today's featured title: "No Man’s Land: The International Methodist Deaconess Movement, 1874–1918," by Priscilla Pope-Levison, Wipf and Stock, 2025 wipfandstock.com/978166676250...

Any religious historians done good work on Bethany World Prayer Center? @aschurchhistory.bsky.social @csraac.bsky.social

Today's featured title: "Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century," by Naomi Baker, University of Chicago Press, 2025 @uchicagopress.bsky.social @drnaomibaker.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Today's featured title: "Bernardino Ochino’s Exile and the Composition of an International Reformation," by Andrea Beth Wenz, Penn State University Press, 2025 @psupress.bsky.social @earlymodernandrea.bsky.social www.psupress.org/books/titles...

Missing #ASCH2026 already? Join ASCH for our joint online conference with the Scottish Church History Society on March 14! Learn more at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-a...

The ASCH is excited to announce our call for papers for our 2027 annual meeting in New Orleans! mailchi.mp/churchhistor...

Today's featured title: "Thirsty Land Into Springs of Water: Negotiating a Place in Canada as Latter-Day Saints," by Brooke Kathleen Brassard, University of Toronto Press, 2025 @uoftpress.bsky.social @bkbphd.bsky.social www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Today's featured title: "John Calvin: Refugee Theologian," by Kenneth J. Woo, Baker Academic, 2025 @kennethjwoo.bsky.social bakeracademic.com/products/978...

Today's featured title: "Fruit of Her Hands: Women, Work, and Society in the Hebrew Bible," by Leslie G. Virnelson, Oxford University Press, 2025 @academic.oup.com global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Today's featured book: "Civil Religion and the Renewal of American Politics," by Amy E. Black and Douglas L. Koopman, Cambridge University Press, 2025 @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Today's featured title: "Dreams of a Young Republic: The American Vincentians in China," by John J. Harney, University of Nebraska Press, 2025 @univnebpress.bsky.social @ludensprof.bsky.social www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

Today's featured title: "Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza: The Politics of an Anglo-Spanish Life," by Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez, Penn State University Press, 2025 @psupress.bsky.social www.psupress.org/books/titles...

Today's featured title: "The Gridiron Gospel: Faith and College Football in Twentieth-Century America," by Hunter M. Hampton, University of Illinois Press, 2025 @illinoispress.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

Today's featured title: "Pioneers of Latino Ministry: Claretians and the Evolving World of Catholic America," by Deborah E. Kanter, NYU Press, 2025 @nyupress.bsky.social nyupress.org/978147983248...

Religious Historians: Anyone done/know of work on the rise of nondenominational evangelical churches, especially Association of Related Churches (ARC) affiliated ones? Articles, books, chapters, etc. Thank you! @aschurchhistory.bsky.social @profsamperry.bsky.social @drleahpayne.bsky.social

Miss the book exhibit at #ASCH2026? No need to worry, as you can learn all about new books in Church History with our Books of the Month list for December 2025! churchhistory.org/books-of-the...

That’s a wrap on #ASCH2026! Thank you to everyone who joined us in Chicago! We’ll see you next year in New Orleans!

Last night I was privileged to receive the @aschurchhistory.bsky.social’s Philip Schaff Prize, which is given to “the best book in the history of Christianity.” It’s an award that I still don’t think I deserve, but one for which I am deeply grateful. ASCH is one of my favorite scholarly orgs. /1

How is it already the last day of #ASCH2026? If you’re still around, catch our 8:30 sessions on social class, missionaries, skepticism, and more!

It's time for the event of the evening, Timothy Larsen's keynote address, "If Christ Came to Chicago" in the Train Rooms. It will be followed by a reception in the Crystal ballroom. #ASCH2026

Next up at #ASCH2026 is the annual members meeting in the Train Rooms on the concourse level. Come to celebrate our award winners and discuss association business!

End your afternoon by learning more about German Protestant tradition, the South Side of Chicago, and more during our 3:30 sessions! #ASCH2026

Escape the cold after lunch with our 1:30 panels! We’ve got sessions on historical memory, archival silences, jesuits, and more! #ASCH2026

Graduate students in attendance at #ASCH2026 are welcome to browse Wipf and Stock’s book table and take a free book this afternoon!

And don’t forget to visit the book exhibit in the Art Hall, featuring @scholarschoice.bsky.social and more! #ASCH2026

Nothing pairs better with a second cup of coffee (available in the Train Room foyer) than our next set of panels at 10:30. Hear new scholarship on sexuality, modern Britain, fifteenth century Byzantium, and more! #ASCH2026

It’s day 3 of #ASCH2026! Start your day off with sessions on southern progressivism, the city of angels, and more!

At 6:45, join us for a Roundtable Honoring Rev. Dr. David D. Daniels III in the English Room, followed by a reception. #ASCH2026

Don’t miss this evening’s plenary, “Planet as Place,” by Brad S. Gregory, in the Train Rooms (Metra, Alton and Chicago, and L) at 5:15! #ASCH2026

Curious about evangelical broadcasting, Catholic-Protestant relations, or crossroads of exchange in medieval Christianity? Then our 3:30 panels are for you! #ASCH2026

Nothing is better after a lunch of deep dish pizza than our next set of panels at 1:30! Come hear about religion and urban space, law and the state, and more! #ASCH2026

Grab a cup of coffee or tea in the Train Room Foyer on your way to the next set of panels! At 10:30 we have sessions on gender ideals, making and unmaking borders, abolition in Oberlin, and more! #ASCH2026

It’s day two of #ASCH2026! Start off your day with one of our panels on medieval receptions, broadcasting religion, Christianity and national security, or more!

Don’t miss Sarah Foot’s keynote, “Locating the Venerable Bede” in the train rooms, starting soon! #ASCH2026

Our second set of panels is starting soon! Don’t miss scholarship on late antiquity, grand narratives, world Christianity, and more! #ASCH2026

Need some caffeine before the next set of panels? Coffee and tea are available in the train room foyer!

Our first set of panels is starting in a few minutes! Check out presentations on religion and the university, Catholicism and national belonging, Chinese Protestant intellectuals, and more! #ASCH2026

Registration is now open in the Train Room Foyer! #ASCH2026

Tomorrow's the day! We cannot wait to see you at ASCH 2026. The registration table opens at noon and panels start at 1:30 p.m. #ASCH2026

Only two more days until ASCH 2026! What are you most looking forward to? #ASCH2026

Today's featured title: "On the Edges of Christendom: Maurice of Burgos and the Church and Culture of Medieval Castile," by Teresa Witcombe, The British Academy, 2025 @britishacademy.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

ASCH 2026 is just three days away! Make sure to tag us and use #ASCH2026 throughout the conference when you post on social media!

Today's featured title: "Millennialism, Millerites, and Prophecy in Bahá’í Discourse," by William P. Collins, Routledge, 2025 www.routledge.com/Millennialis...

ASCH 2026 is only four days away! Flying into O'Hare International Airport? You can easily get to the Blackstone Hotel from ORD by taking the blue line from the airport and getting off at Jackson Station, and then walking a few blocks to the hotel. #ChurchHistory #ASCH2026