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June 2023

June 28, 2023
You would not think that the land of beer and sausages would help me with...
June 27, 2023
It was a hot summer in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956. The temperature soared to 100...
June 26, 2023
  At long last: the final season of Never Have I Ever is here, and...
June 22, 2023
I am presently working on a History of the United States. My only minor problem...
June 21, 2023
Reflections on traveling in the American Southwest
June 20, 2023
The famous defender of orthodox faith, Basil of Caesarea, wrote a theologian early in his...
June 19, 2023
To my best knowledge, I’ve only made up one conspiracy theory.  Once, on a family...
June 16, 2023
May my body be buried in the Church of San Gabriel in the said city...
June 15, 2023
This post concerns a painting I first encountered many years ago, and which has remained...
June 14, 2023
Every Sunday morning in the small-town Georgia PCA church where my husband and I have...
June 13, 2023
Yesterday, as I was enjoying a light breakfast of fried eggs, toast, and a Nesspresso...
June 12, 2023
The windswept Curonian Spit, on the Baltic Sea, affords a choice spot for reflecting on...
June 09, 2023
I’m spending 10 weeks out of the country this summer, either for work or pleasure...
June 08, 2023
I have been posting on Late Byzantine history, focusing on the different ways in which...
June 06, 2023
Parenting has been something that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. With a recently...
June 05, 2023
Today I have the great privilege of speaking with Dr. Lloyd Barba, Assistant Professor of...
June 02, 2023
Over on my substack, Past and Piety, I have started a series called Fragments from...
June 01, 2023
Recently, I was working on a couple of totally unrelated projects relating to British history...

May 2023

May 31, 2023
Today we welcome Dr. Nathan Cartagena, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College. His...
May 30, 2023
Today we welcome a guest post from Jared Stacy, who is a PhD candidate in...
May 26, 2023
The Franciscan friar, standing before a low, whitewashed ranch house, raised his hand in blessing...
May 25, 2023
This coming Sunday marks the feast of Pentecost. In connection with that, I am posting...
May 24, 2023
I am delighted to welcome Nancy Koester to the Anxious Bench today to discuss her...
May 23, 2023
When I was losing my faith fourteen years ago, Tim Keller’s writings and sermons gave...
May 22, 2023
  May is my favorite month of the year, not only because it’s Asian American...
May 18, 2023
My recent work has concerned the Byzantine world in its last days, and that exploration...
May 17, 2023
On the many American evangelical uses of a medieval saint
May 16, 2023
Serapion Sindonites was a devout monk from the fourth century who had the Scriptures memorized,...
May 15, 2023
I just returned from a trip to Brazil, which involved research in three major cities:...
May 12, 2023
Spoiler Alert: This article works with cultural memes and identity politics from the most recent...
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