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December 2025

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...

April 2024

April 04, 2024

Rudyard Kipling, Neil Gaiman, and A Perfect Story for Easter

I have a literary dilemma. I want to rave about a piece of writing –...

November 2023

November 03, 2023

Lived Religion and Default Faith

My present work concerns the topic of Lived Religion, which will be the subject of...

May 2023

May 04, 2023

The Wars After The War: Just What Did End In 1945?

I wrote recently about the year 1453, which marked the Fall of Constantinople, and therefore...

June 2020

June 08, 2020

A Sunday Morning in 1915

I recently posted about using poetry as a source for studying American history, and religious...

March 2020

March 30, 2020

Silent Apocalypse

Both Chris Gehrz and myself have recently been thinking back to the horrendous circumstances of...

November 2018

November 23, 2018

1918: Red Atlantis

I have been writing about the cultural and spiritual impact of the First World War,...

November 16, 2018

1918: The Good Soldier

I have posted a lot on the First World War era, and in some literary...

February 2018

February 05, 2018

A (Great) Lost Poem of the Great War

It’s taken me a mere fifty years to find the full meaning of a poem....

October 2017

October 27, 2017

Stealing Luther

The 500th anniversary of the Reformation offers plenty of opportunity to commemorate, but also to...

April 2017

April 04, 2017

American Violence: Things Fall Apart

I have been posting about the extreme violence that characterized US life around the turn...

March 2017

March 17, 2017

The Great War, and the Futile War

We are hearing a lot this year about the centennial of the First World War,...

August 2016

August 22, 2016

Up on the Downs

I have been posting about the creation of modern myths about paganism, human sacrifice and...

April 2016

April 08, 2016

1916 and Jewish History

The centennial of the First World War means that we have plenty of grim events...

April 04, 2016

War, Faith and Superstition

This year, we are of course commemorating the centennial of the First World War, and...

April 24, 2015

Under God

Don't blame the book, blame the reviewer. Kevin M. Kruse has a new book called...

August 2014

August 08, 2014

PICTURING THE GREAT WAR: A WORLD ON THE CROSS

In my book The Great and Holy War, I write at some length about the...

July 2014

July 26, 2014

WARS HOLY AND UNHOLY

I have been posting a lot recently on the topic of holy war and crusade...

July 11, 2014

BUCHAN’S POWER HOUSE

I have been posting on some books that appeared during the First World War –...

July 04, 2014

THE GHOSTS OF WARS TO COME

As we commemorate the First World War in coming months, we are going to hear...

June 2014

June 13, 2014

MACHEN’S TERROR

I recently published the book The Great and Holy War, about the supernatural dimensions of...

June 06, 2014

THE FOUR HORSEMEN

Following on from my book The Great and Holy War, I have been working on...

June 02, 2014

TECTONIC FAITH

In my new book The Great and Holy War, I argued that the catastrophe of...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

THE BROOK KERITH

I recently published the book The Great and Holy War, about the religious and apocalyptic...

May 16, 2014

SEEING IT THROUGH

Here’s a question. I am going to quote a passage published in 1916 by a...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

THE GREAT AND HOLY WAR

Not long since, I posted about my current book project on the First World War,...

January 2014

January 03, 2014

FROM ANGELS TO ARMAGEDDON

Over the past couple of years, I have been working on a book about the...

November 2013

November 04, 2013

WAR AND GOD’S KINGDOM

Wars often change and reshape religions. I have posted recently, for instance, on how the...

November 01, 2013

FAITH AT WAR

I have been thinking how warfare drives religious change. This arises partly from preparing the...