It is rather complicated for us to understand what is happening today, regarding the ongoing wars and political polarizations around the world. Too often, we tend to hold the opinions that military operations and economic partnerships could lead to greater peace. In this episode, our guest shares how Bible, the well-known and ancient book, is a better solution to understand what's happening, and how we should see those matters from a moral perspective. Is that so? How is Bible relevant to what is happening today? Do we see any hope at all?

A native of Canada, Dr. Bruce Gordon taught at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he was professor of modern history and deputy director of the St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute. He came to Yale in 2008. His research and teaching focus on European religious cultures of the late-medieval and early modern periods, with a particular interest in the Reformation and its reception. In 2021 he published The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism (Oxford) and Huldrych Zwingli. God’s Armed Prophet (Yale). The biography of Zwingli explores the roots of the Reformation and the problematic relationship between religion and violence. His John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion (Princeton 2016) looks at the reception from the sixteenth century to the age of YouTube of one of the defining works of the Reformation. He is the author of Calvin (Yale, 2009), a biography of the Genevan reformer, and the Swiss Reformation (Manchester, 2002), a Choice Magazine “Outstanding Publication” (2003). His The Bible: A Global History(link is external) (Basic Books, NY) appeared in September 2024.