Ep. 108: The Writer, the Cross, and the Believing Skeptic, with Darren J. N. Middleton, Baylor University

September 08, 2025 00:53:40
Ep. 108: The Writer, the Cross, and the Believing Skeptic, with Darren J. N. Middleton, Baylor University
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Ep. 108: The Writer, the Cross, and the Believing Skeptic, with Darren J. N. Middleton, Baylor University

Sep 08 2025 | 00:53:40

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Show Notes

Darren Middleton is Professor of Literature and Theology at Baylor University, where he is also director of Baylor’s Interdisciplinary Core. This year, he also assumed the editorship of the academic journal Christianity and Literature, a leading journal in the field of literature and religion. A prolific scholar with books on subjects ranging from the novelists Shusaku Endo, Graham Greene, and Cormac McCarthy to studies of the Rastafari, Darren is also an authority on Christian popular fiction, especially historical fiction. We discuss his book The Writer and the Cross, a collection of interviews with authors of Christian historical fiction, as well as his […]

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