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June 2026

June 08, 2026
As a history educator for over thirty years, the reasons for studying history are never...
June 05, 2026
Have you ever read something about history that stopped you in your tracks? That shook...
June 04, 2026
I am continuing my series on Lost and Found Scriptures. I believe I have a...
June 02, 2026
As my grant (and time in Norway) wrapped up this spring, I spent a lot...

May 2026

May 29, 2026
This month I’ve been visiting secret places. I study English Catholic families in the seventeenth...
May 28, 2026
My present work concerns the massive discoveries of early Christian texts, documents, and scriptures in...
May 21, 2026
I have been posting on texts and scriptures as they are lost and found, with...
May 20, 2026
We are living in a New Gilded Age. Or, so said Paul Krugman in 2014...
May 19, 2026
Homer is having a bit of a moment. The controversy around Christopher Nolan’s creative decisions...
May 14, 2026
I have been posting about the loss and rediscovery of venerated ancient texts, including Scriptures....
May 13, 2026
I have to admit that I am a little bit obsessed with Taylor Swift's song...
May 12, 2026
"Your Petitioners believe in the Republican doctrine that all men are born free and are...
May 11, 2026
Review of Udi Greenberg, The End of Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of European...
May 08, 2026
The 5 first-class relics of Cristero martyrs displayed during Mass on a table with the...
May 07, 2026
My recent posts have explored various lost texts, mainly in the context of ancient Greek...
May 05, 2026
Anyone who has spent much time in the church has probably heard a bad sermon...

April 2026

April 30, 2026
The Lost Epics of Thebes Last time I discussed just how distressingly much of ancient...
April 27, 2026
I turned in my manuscript to Our God Is an Awesome Brand on the twilight of Eastertide...
April 24, 2026
I’m researching Catholic families in seventeenth century England. Catholicism was outlawed and its practice could...
April 23, 2026
My current research involves the loss and rediscovery of Jewish and Christian scriptures, with a...
April 21, 2026
In a homily on Palm Sunday, Pope Leo XIV condemned violence and war and those...
April 16, 2026
Helen H Gardener (1853–1925) was a celebrated reformer in the Gilded Age and Progressive era,...
April 15, 2026
I’ve been interested in a sort of apparent paradox over the last few months. You...
April 13, 2026
Diversity and Sanctification A week ago we celebrated Easter, Christ’s victory over death, hell, and...
April 10, 2026
Author's children cleaning their grandfather's headstone We walked gingerly over the browning grass and the...
April 09, 2026
Shakespeare has the legendary stage direction “Exit, pursued by a bear.” My own version of...
April 08, 2026
"It became a snare to Gideon and to his house" Judges 8:27 I debated for...
April 07, 2026
I’ve not been thinking a lot about teaching this year– while in Norway on a...
April 02, 2026
I have a dilemma. I want to share my enthusiasm for a literary work that...

March 2026

March 27, 2026
  I wrote recently about the importance of letters as a form of evidence for...
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