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January 2026

January 12, 2026

The Twentieth Century Assault on Buddhism

At eighty-nine, the Dalai Lama fairly recently made global headlines again—this time with a striking...

January 08, 2026

Light on the Path

I am delighted to hand over today’s blog to my good friend Mark Morrisson, who...

January 06, 2026

Singing the Particularity of Place

My family and I celebrated Christmas in Norway this year, which brought a number of...

January 02, 2026

Adoption, Christmas and Chosen Families

We are still in the season of Christmas—my friends around the world who celebrate Three...

January 01, 2026

Can We Get Rid of the Gilded Age, Please?

One of the American historians I hold in high regard is Richard White, author of...

December 2025

December 25, 2025

Discovering, and Inventing, Christmas c.1820

Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1878 novel Poganuc People depicts a young Connecticut girl's discovery of Christmas...

December 23, 2025

My Farewell to the Anxious Bench

After five and a half years on the Anxious Bench, the time has come to...

December 22, 2025

Jack’s (C. S. Lewis) War on Xmas

To say Jack’s relationship with Xmas was tendentious is to understate it. Even in his...

December 20, 2025

Two Christianities at the Heart of Wake Up Dead Man

Note: This post contains spoilers for Wake Up Dead Man. “You here to take my church away...

December 18, 2025

Gentlemen Clergymen in the Mud and Blood of World War One

A guest blogpost today, by my great friend, Tim Larsen, who teaches at Wheaton College...

December 17, 2025

Whence AI Apostle Ron? A Christian History of AI (Pt. 2)

AI Apostle Ron was far from the first AI to be invented by a member...

December 16, 2025

On the ‘Middle’ Coming: Advent Reflections with Romanos

Time and space are peculiar during the Advent season. The emphasis on repeated family traditions...

December 11, 2025

New England’s Religious Wars in Poganuc People

I posted last time about the 1878 novel Poganuc People, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (hereafter,...

December 10, 2025

Hope in December: A Holocaust Survivor’s Story

I just received news early last week that Holocaust survivor, Dr. Jacob Eisenbach, passed away....

December 08, 2025

Education, Politics, and DEI . . . Again

Ms. Samantha Fulnecky's grade of zero that she earned on a reflection paper she submitted...

December 04, 2025

Discovering Christmas in a Classic Episcopal Novel

Today’s post concerns a nineteenth century American novel that few non-specialists will have heard of....

December 02, 2025

Candles in the Darkness: Advent, Hope, and Church History

It’s dark here in Norway. The last time the sun rose above the mountains in...

November 2025

November 28, 2025

The Economics of Christmas Romance Movies

‘Tis the season for watching silly sappy movies about small town folks who work...

November 27, 2025

Lovecraft as Folk Horror

I have been writing on the genre of folk horror, and suggesting that its American...

November 25, 2025

Christians Reading Classics

Nadya Williams, a former Anxious Bencher who is currently a books editor at Mere Orthodoxy...

November 24, 2025

Best Books of 2025

In keeping with past tradition since joining the illustrious team of historians at the Anxious...

November 20, 2025

Discovering American Folk Horror

I have been working on a book on the history of Folk Horror, which represents...

November 19, 2025

Whence AI Apostle Ron? A Christian History of AI (Pt. 1)

In December 2024, Apostle Ron Carpenter, Jr. made waves across the Christian world when his...

November 18, 2025

Learning Patience: On Art and Liturgical Seasons

Western society has an odd relationship with patience. While most would claim patience is a...

November 14, 2025

Walking in Henry’s England: The English Church Revisited

Last Thursday evening, just past 9pm, I hurried across the central green of Keble College...

November 13, 2025

The Hired Hand and the Lost Gospel

This post brings together quite a few of my very long-term interests – in film,...

November 12, 2025

Kristofferson’s Burden of Freedom

Kris Kristofferson's "Why Me?" might be one of the best Christian redemption songs I have...

November 10, 2025

Missionaries and Modernity

I am contemplating a new research project tentatively entitled “Missionaries and Modernity: Christian Proclamation in...

November 07, 2025

Longevity and the Good Death

It’s a sign of the season of life I’m in that my nightstand and Audible...

November 06, 2025

What A Lethal Roof Tile Tells Us About Christian Heresy

In 379 (or conceivably 380) the Christian bishop Eusebius was martyred in the North Syrian...

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