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March 2026

March 10, 2026
Before jumping into this piece, I want to make an acknowledgement. First, Professor Sutton has...
March 09, 2026
Recently I have given talks on wisdom at my own institution (Valparaiso University) and at...
March 05, 2026
This post grows out of my current book project, which is about US history in...
March 03, 2026
It's March, Women's History Month, and this year, as I write about two medieval women,...
March 01, 2026
Over the last two months, I have been overwhelmed with friends discussing The Correspondent, Virginia...

February 2026

February 27, 2026
Yesterday, John Piper made social media waves again when he posted Leviticus 19:34 on X...
February 26, 2026
One of the many advantages of working at Baylor University is having such a range...
February 23, 2026
Last week Brazos Press and I agreed on a title for my forthcoming book. The...
February 19, 2026
Last time I posted about some work I was doing on Washington Gladden, who was...
February 18, 2026
My father died ten days ago on February 8th. It was his 63rd birthday. His...
February 17, 2026
In a press conference a few weeks ago, US House Speaker Mike Johnson responded to...
February 12, 2026
There is nothing new about the idea that Europeans and Americans in the nineteenth century...
February 11, 2026
You ever wonder how historians create periodization? What gives them the idea to say this...
February 05, 2026
I have been working on a book on the history of Folk Horror, which represents...
February 03, 2026
“Countries have to have ownership and you defend ownership, you don't defend leases.” (Mr. Trump...

January 2026

January 31, 2026
“I wish I wasn’t White; I feel guilty for all the bad things that White...
January 29, 2026
I originally published a version of this piece at this site some years back. I...
January 26, 2026
We are all living in an American horror story. As we navigate this era of...
January 22, 2026
Recently I posted on a remarkable new archaeological discovery in Britain, namely the find of...
January 21, 2026
You end up in unexpected places as a professor. Recently, a colleague asked me to...
January 20, 2026
It was recently revealed in a Christianity Today article that Philip Yancey is “retiring from...
January 16, 2026
Deathbed image taken from "Catholic Last Rites" entry on Scripture Catholic Friends, I lost my...
January 15, 2026
Just this week, archaeologists in Wales announced a spectacular find, namely a very large Roman...
January 14, 2026
I am still a little shocked about the Philip Yancey news. I made it a...
January 12, 2026
At eighty-nine, the Dalai Lama fairly recently made global headlines again—this time with a striking...
January 08, 2026
I am delighted to hand over today’s blog to my good friend Mark Morrisson, who...
January 06, 2026
My family and I celebrated Christmas in Norway this year, which brought a number of...
January 02, 2026
We are still in the season of Christmas—my friends around the world who celebrate Three...
January 01, 2026
One of the American historians I hold in high regard is Richard White, author of...

December 2025

December 25, 2025
Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1878 novel Poganuc People depicts a young Connecticut girl's discovery of Christmas...
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