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June 2025

June 13, 2025
“To go on pilgrimage is not simply to visit a place to admire its treasures...
June 12, 2025
My recent blogs have focused on the year 1893, which I believe marked multiple critical...
June 11, 2025
It is summer time and it is usually the season I try to get as...
June 09, 2025
Recently I was discussing Critical Race Theory with a professor colleague of mine who in...
June 06, 2025
The Grandparent Effect I didn’t grow up with a grandparent nearby. And while my parents...
June 05, 2025
This post offer a translation between British and American English, and suggests why you really...
June 03, 2025
Today’s post is a mix of methodological and personal musings, thinking about how our work...
June 02, 2025
If you follow data and polling around religion and American politics, you’ve probably (whether knowingly...

May 2025

May 29, 2025
I have been describing the cultural and spiritual transformations  that occurred in the United States...
May 27, 2025
A review of John G. Turner, Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American...
May 23, 2025
It's almost Southern Baptist Convention season again and, as the argument over women's roles in...
May 22, 2025
I am currently writing about the year 1893, and arguing that it was of immense...
May 21, 2025
Growing up Pentecostal, my introduction to Catholic life came slowly and almost accidentally when a...
May 20, 2025
I had the privilege of attending a conference in Rome on the Council of Nicaea...
May 16, 2025
Last Thursday morning, May 8, 2025, as I finished up a morning Zoom call with...
May 15, 2025
There are years when everything seems to happen at once, years that shape conditions for...
May 14, 2025
"Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things"—Joan Didion about Joan Baez (Didion, 48)...
May 13, 2025
"[T]here is no image of an American Indian intellectual" wrote the Lakota literary theorist Elizabeth...
May 09, 2025
So they elected a new pope. As a member of a Protestant denomination, I have...
May 08, 2025
Last time, I wrote about Prince Demetrius Gallitzin, a Catholic priest of Russian origin, who...
May 06, 2025
With the recent passing of Pope Francis, there has been a lot of discussion about...
May 05, 2025
I agreed to interview Aimee Byrd about her new book, Saving Face: Finding Myself, God,...
May 01, 2025
Prince Gallitzin State Park is a beautiful site in west-central Pennsylvania, best known for a...

April 2025

April 24, 2025
At special times of the year such as Easter, I always like to offer seasonally...
April 23, 2025
Editor's note: This post originally appeared on July 21, 2021.  I spent last week researching...
April 22, 2025
Pope Francis's Evangelical Critics Twenty years ago, when Pope John Paul II died, American evangelicals...
April 18, 2025
Choosing Barabbas I’ve been intermittently listening to Bach’s Matthäuspassion performed by the Tölz Boys’ Choir...
April 17, 2025
Last time I wrote about the amazing growth of Catholic populations in Africa, to the...
April 16, 2025
After a dozen years, I bid farewell to the Anxious Bench.
April 15, 2025
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