This episode features the first half of our conversation with Nick Pruitt, Assistant Professor at Eastern Nazarene College. We talk about Nick's academic journey through grad school, the travails and serendipity of finding a dissertation topic, and begin a discussion of the mainline Protestant relationship to immigration in the early and mid-twentieth century. Nick's new book is titled Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism.  Other books mentioned in this episode:  David Hollinger, After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History