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January 2026

January 20, 2026

Gregory of Nyssa

My 20+ year project is to read through all of the Schaff series of church...

January 21, 2025

Disagreeing well

Continuing the not-necessarily-for-everyone exercise of reading through the Schaff set of Church Fathers (if my...

February 2024

February 23, 2024

Chrysostom on John and Hebrews

After several years of effort, I've finally wrapped up the final volume of the First...

August 2023

August 25, 2023

Chrysostom on a bunch of stuff

Review of John Chrysostom's Homilies of Galatians, Ephesians, et al

February 2023

February 17, 2023

Chrysostom on Corinthians

Review of John Chrysostom on 1 and 2 Corinthians

November 2022

November 11, 2022

John Chrysostom on Acts and Romans

Review of "Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans"...

March 2022

March 04, 2022

Chrysostom and the Christian Life

Review of John Chrysostom's "Homilies on the Gospel of Saint Matthew"

January 2022

January 07, 2022

Start your year with Chrysostom

Chrysostom on Matthew and the kingdom of Heaven

October 2021

October 08, 2021

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? A lot…

Review of Louis Markos' "From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith"

July 2021

July 23, 2021

John Chrysostom on the Priesthood, Monkhood, Statues, and other stuff too

In my ongoing effort to read through one of the Philip Schaff volumes of ante-...

January 2021

January 22, 2021

We don’t need a Constantine

Review of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2 Volume 1

July 2020

July 31, 2020

Augustine on the Psalms

On my occasional trip plodding slowly through the Church Fathers, I’ve finally finished the last and...

May 2020

May 29, 2020

Augustine on John, 1 John, and the Truth

Review of Volume 7 of the First Series of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Augustine's...

February 2020

February 07, 2020

What you need to know about what the early church had to read

Review of "A History of Early Christian Literature" by Justo Gonzalez

July 2019

July 26, 2019

Augustine and the Gospels

Review of Volume 6 of the First Series of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Augustine...

July 12, 2019

Augustine on Politics

Continuing to read through a volume of Augustine, I've come across a short version of...

July 05, 2019

Augustine on the reading of Scripture

Continuing to read through the church fathers, in my recent reading I came across a...

May 2019

May 31, 2019

Augustine on the usefulness of Heretics

Continuing to work through a volume of the church fathers, I've stumbled across this gem...

May 10, 2019

Augustine on the Sermon on the Mount

Augustine's opening thoughts on Matthew 5

February 2019

February 15, 2019

Augustine on the Pelagians

We've covered volumes of the 19th century Church Fathers collection in the past. And as...

September 2018

September 18, 2018

Augustine on the Manicheans and the Donatists

Volume four of the First Series of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (got all that?)...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

Theology, Ethics, and Doctrine Still Matter

I've blocked out roughly twenty years of my life (give or take, and should the...

February 02, 2018

A Church Father’s Evangelism Manual

Most of us know Augustine through either the Confessions or City of God, and maybe on rare...