biography
New biography offers novel approach to life of Muhammad
By Joseph Hammond — November 12, 2021
(RNS) — In his new book, 'Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait,' biographer Mohamad Jebara takes long-established sources and weaves them together for a fresh telling of a familiar story.
Faith, endurance of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer revealed in new biography
By Adelle M. Banks — October 5, 2021
(RNS) — ‘She used the Bible in many different ways,’ said Hamer’s biographer. ‘She used it to shame her white oppressors who claimed also to be Christians.’
N.T. Wright on the Apostle Paul’s sudden popularity
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 28, 2018
(RNS) — The author of the new book 'Paul: A Biography,' calls the apostle 'one of the great intellectual, cultural, spiritual thinkers of the whole world.'
Graham biographer: Many ‘little Billy Grahams’ succeed evangelist
By Adelle M. Banks — February 23, 2018
(RNS) — William Martin says there won't be a 'next Billy Graham.'
Who is Pope Francis? Insights on the remarkable life of a historic pontiff
By David Gibson — September 22, 2015
(RNS) A reformer? A radical? A revolutionary? He has been called all of these things.
Was Dietrich Bonhoeffer gay? A new biography raises questions
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — July 3, 2014
NEW YORK (RNS) “I think theologians are often terrified of what we’ll discover when we go more deeply into human character if we say that a person had very complicated relationships with character, psychology, formation and sexuality,” says Dietrich Bonhoeffer biographer Charles Marsh.
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