Daniel K. Williams is a can’t miss historian for me. I was delighted to get an early copy of his Abortion and America’s Churches, a history of how denominations chose sides around Roe v. Wade. I drew on one thread of his history for an essay for Word on Fire. In Williams’s telling, in the wake of World War II, there was a desire in many philosophical and religious traditions to be able to speak […]| Leah Libresco