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October 2026

October 15, 2026

Fairies, Witches, Folk Horror, and the Secret Commonwealth

Pursuing my Scottish theme from last time ... In the 1690s, Europe was definitively entering an...

October 14, 2026

The Neighbor on the Screen

My recent study of music history especially as it relates to faith has taught me...

October 12, 2026

Christians Helped Invent Race. Some Now Call It Unbiblical

Is "Race" a Biblical Idea? Today it's easy to find conservative Christian writers who claim...

October 08, 2026

Hogg’s Justified Sinner: A Gothic Classic for Halloween

James Hogg's Voyage to Hell Last time, I described the dazzling work of the Scottish...

October 06, 2026

Why Hymns and Poems Count as Real Theology

Singing Theology: Broadening Our Perspective on Theologians Who do we think of as a theologian?...

October 01, 2026

James Hogg, Weird Wives, and Feminist Witches

In recent months, I have been posting a lot about forgeries through the centuries, and...

September 2026

September 28, 2026

What Coffee Reveals About America’s Evangelical Varieties

How Do You Take Your Evangelicalism? Evangelical experiences vary across America. The ideology expresses itself...

September 26, 2026

A Casserole is Not a Counterpoint

In the early twelfth century, the Cistercian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux began work on a...

September 24, 2026

How an Explosive Book Rewrote the Study of the Gospels

The history of faith and doubt in Christian history is often written around the publication...

September 23, 2026

George Rogers and the Pentecostal Case Against Movies

A Pentecostal in “Hellywood” In my last post, I explored how early-20th-century conservative groups, like...

September 22, 2026

Origen, Eustathius, and the Witch of Endor

Origen the Literalist? On Patristic Exegesis One of the chief modern complaints about early Christian...

September 21, 2026

Angelina Grimké’s Forgotten Turn to Apocalyptic Faith

Angelina Grimké and the Turmoils of Perfection Angelina Grimké shot like a meteor across the...

September 18, 2026

Guadalupe’s Pilgrim Image Visits Our Parish School

La Peregrina: Our Lady of Guadalupe on Pilgrimage Friends, my heart is heavy as I...

September 18, 2026

John Calvin: Pastor. Theologian. Immigrant Nuisance?

The second part of a guest contributor series by Steven Tyra In the last installment,...

September 17, 2026

A Renaissance Purge of Ancient Scriptures

Renaissance thinkers were entranced by the idea of finding ancient manuscripts and texts that would...

September 16, 2026

Linda Ronstadt and the Joy of Mexican American Music

Linda Ronstadt and the Joy of Music Hispanic Heritage Month just started. Because of the...

September 14, 2026

Stop Calling It an Empty Nest. Start Calling It Home.

You're Not a Bird, Your Kids Aren't Either GUEST POST by Agnes R. Howard As...

September 11, 2026

Thank you for your Sacrifice

I spent time over Labor Day on Dale Hollow Lake which borders Tennessee and Kentucky....

September 10, 2026

Debunking Sacred Forgeries in the Renaissance

I have been posting a lot on the wave of forged and imaginary documents of...

September 07, 2026

Angelina Grimké and the Turmoils of Perfection

Angelina Grimké shot like a meteor across the firmament of American abolitionism. She first came...

September 03, 2026

Forging Druids in the Renaissance

To begin with a recent story relevant to my current blog series, which describes how...

August 2026

August 27, 2026

Was This 400-Year-Old Forgery the First Sci-Fi Novel?

Forging The Chymical Wedding I have been posting about the mind-stretching Renaissance works in which...

August 24, 2026

Gil Dodds, The Flying Parson

Gil Dodds ran, and boy was he fleet of foot. During his early life, he...

August 21, 2026

How Modern Citizenship Debates Echo the Reformation

The first part of a guest contributor series by Steven Tyra You can imagine...

August 20, 2026

American Empire, American Faith

I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book, American Empire, American Faith:...

August 19, 2026

When Pentecostals Took on “Hellywood”

We are living in the belle époque of Christian cinema. While critics may pan them,...

August 18, 2026

Corrupting the Youth? What Universities Are Really For

On the Ethics of the University For his crimes, Socrates was put to death by...

August 17, 2026

The Abraham Kuyper You’ve Never Met

Abraham Kuyper as a Human Being The single most quoted line in my biography of...

August 14, 2026

Singing Seafarers: Sailing a 16th-Century Spanish Galleon

— Oh, God! —Help us. —Oh! Who are we? —I am your servant. —Oh! We...

August 13, 2026

The Rosicrucians: A 400-Year-Old Hoax That Worked

Pour wine and dance if manhood still have pride, Bring roses if the rose be...

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