My friend D, a history major at one of the Seventh-day Adventist colleges in Washington, decided for his book club pick that we’d read a new biography of one of the church founding mothers, Ellen G. White. She’s received a lot of attention from a theological perspective, but she’s barely made any indentation on 19th century American studies from a cultural or historical perspective. I was interested to see what a variety of scholars would produce. I also wanted to read this volume, since my […]