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December 2025

December 23, 2025
After five and a half years on the Anxious Bench, the time has come to...
December 22, 2025
To say Jack’s relationship with Xmas was tendentious is to understate it. Even in his...
December 20, 2025
Note: This post contains spoilers for Wake Up Dead Man. “You here to take my church away...
December 18, 2025
A guest blogpost today, by my great friend, Tim Larsen, who teaches at Wheaton College...
December 17, 2025
AI Apostle Ron was far from the first AI to be invented by a member...
December 16, 2025
Time and space are peculiar during the Advent season. The emphasis on repeated family traditions...
December 11, 2025
I posted last time about the 1878 novel Poganuc People, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (hereafter,...
December 10, 2025
I just received news early last week that Holocaust survivor, Dr. Jacob Eisenbach, passed away....
December 08, 2025
Ms. Samantha Fulnecky's grade of zero that she earned on a reflection paper she submitted...
December 04, 2025
Today’s post concerns a nineteenth century American novel that few non-specialists will have heard of....
December 02, 2025
It’s dark here in Norway. The last time the sun rose above the mountains in...

November 2025

November 28, 2025
  ‘Tis the season for watching silly sappy movies about small town folks who work...
November 27, 2025
I have been writing on the genre of folk horror, and suggesting that its American...
November 25, 2025
Nadya Williams, a former Anxious Bencher who is currently a books editor at Mere Orthodoxy...
November 24, 2025
In keeping with past tradition since joining the illustrious team of historians at the Anxious...
November 20, 2025
I have been working on a book on the history of Folk Horror, which represents...
November 19, 2025
In December 2024, Apostle Ron Carpenter, Jr. made waves across the Christian world when his...
November 18, 2025
Western society has an odd relationship with patience. While most would claim patience is a...
November 14, 2025
Last Thursday evening, just past 9pm, I hurried across the central green of Keble College...
November 13, 2025
This post brings together quite a few of my very long-term interests – in film,...
November 12, 2025
Kris Kristofferson's "Why Me?" might be one of the best Christian redemption songs I have...
November 10, 2025
I am contemplating a new research project tentatively entitled “Missionaries and Modernity: Christian Proclamation in...
November 07, 2025
It’s a sign of the season of life I’m in that my nightstand and Audible...
November 06, 2025
In 379 (or conceivably 380) the Christian bishop Eusebius was martyred in the North Syrian...
November 04, 2025
It’s a stunning stone church, painted white and towering over the surrounding landscape, with the...
November 03, 2025
AB: Ordinary Heroes of Racial Justice OK full disclosure: I wrote this post before Daniel...

October 2025

October 30, 2025
I have a strictly seasonal reading recommendation, and one that is highly appropriate for the...
October 28, 2025
Karen J. Johnson, a professor of history (and department chair) at Wheaton College, has just...
October 27, 2025
“And who are my neighbors?” (Luke 10:29b) Mea culpa: This article is a combination of...
October 24, 2025
Last month, I had the chance to sit down with Grace Hamman to talk about...
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