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June 2026

June 02, 2026

On Different Educations and the Global Church

As my grant (and time in Norway) wrapped up this spring, I spent a lot...

May 2026

May 29, 2026

Does Persecution Make Faith Stronger?

This month I’ve been visiting secret places. I study English Catholic families in the seventeenth...

May 28, 2026

How Empires Made It Possible To Find Lost Scriptures

My present work concerns the massive discoveries of early Christian texts, documents, and scriptures in...

May 21, 2026

How Lost Scriptures Hide in Plain Sight

I have been posting on texts and scriptures as they are lost and found, with...

May 20, 2026

When Did Business Go Bad?

We are living in a New Gilded Age. Or, so said Paul Krugman in 2014...

May 19, 2026

What does Homer have to do with Christ?

Homer is having a bit of a moment. The controversy around Christopher Nolan’s creative decisions...

May 14, 2026

Scriptures: Lost, Found, and Forged

I have been posting about the loss and rediscovery of venerated ancient texts, including Scriptures....

May 13, 2026

Has-been (You’re only as hot as your last hit, baby)

I have to admit that I am a little bit obsessed with Taylor Swift's song...

May 12, 2026

White Whales and Early Republic Indian Rights Petitions

"Your Petitioners believe in the Republican doctrine that all men are born free and are...

May 11, 2026

Protestant-Catholic Reconciliation in Europe?

Review of Udi Greenberg, The End of Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of European...

May 08, 2026

¡Que Viva Cristo Rey! La Cristiada martyrs 100 years later

The 5 first-class relics of Cristero martyrs displayed during Mass on a table with the...

May 07, 2026

Books, Epics, and Scriptures, Lost and Found

My recent posts have explored various lost texts, mainly in the context of ancient Greek...

May 05, 2026

Bad Sermons, Political Violence, and Evil May Day of 1517

Anyone who has spent much time in the church has probably heard a bad sermon...

April 2026

April 30, 2026

7,000 Lines of Homer, and Only One Survived

The Lost Epics of Thebes Last time I discussed just how distressingly much of ancient...

April 27, 2026

An Epilogue to Our God Is an Awesome Brand

I turned in my manuscript to Our God Is an Awesome Brand on the twilight of Eastertide...

April 24, 2026

Conversion from Below

I’m researching Catholic families in seventeenth century England. Catholicism was outlawed and its practice could...

April 23, 2026

All The Epics We Have Lost

My current research involves the loss and rediscovery of Jewish and Christian scriptures, with a...

April 21, 2026

Just War, Non-Violence, and Pete Hegseth

In a homily on Palm Sunday, Pope Leo XIV condemned violence and war and those...

April 16, 2026

Is This Your Son, My Lord?

Helen H Gardener (1853–1925) was a celebrated reformer in the Gilded Age and Progressive era,...

April 15, 2026

Field Report: Pentecostal Christianity and Global Modernity?

I’ve been interested in a sort of apparent paradox over the last few months. You...

April 13, 2026

How Diversity Drives Sanctification After Easter

Diversity and Sanctification A week ago we celebrated Easter, Christ’s victory over death, hell, and...

April 10, 2026

Cracking Cascarones in a Cemetery

Author's children cleaning their grandfather's headstone We walked gingerly over the browning grass and the...

April 09, 2026

Exit, Pursued by Theosophists

Shakespeare has the legendary stage direction “Exit, pursued by a bear.” My own version of...

April 08, 2026

The Fall of the American Gideon

"It became a snare to Gideon and to his house" Judges 8:27 I debated for...

April 07, 2026

Updating the Readings: Recent Books on Women and the Church

I’ve not been thinking a lot about teaching this year– while in Norway on a...

April 02, 2026

Ray Bradbury’s Great Christian Story

I have a dilemma. I want to share my enthusiasm for a literary work that...

March 2026

March 27, 2026

Letters of Recommendation: The Last of the Correspondence?

I wrote recently about the importance of letters as a form of evidence for...

March 26, 2026

The Foundations of Re-Enchantment

I recently came across a book that resonated with so many of my interests! This...

March 23, 2026

Preserving the Past

I love working with primary sources. I love collecting primary sources. On my current book...

March 20, 2026

Why Doing History in Seminaries (and Everywhere) is Hard

“I sat in my car and cried for ten minutes before driving home.” That’s what...

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