Author Brent Bourgeois sets out to uncover the reason why, when he became a Christian, he instinctively, politically, philosophically, and intellectually turned to the left, when so many of his Christian friends, co-workers, and members of his congregation turned to the right. “Left Behind: Jesus in the Age of the American Empire” talks a unique...

In the fall of 1939, two Uyghur Muslim brothers, the older Abu–short, stocky, and Mongol-featured, and Mahmud–tall, blue-eyed, and fair, sent by their widowed mother to find work for a season, instead plunge into a six-year, thirty thousand-mile journey around the world, stumbling their way through the major turning points of World War II,...