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It’s the summer, the season of reading, writing, and thinking, among other things, for academics. While attempting to resurrect long-dormant writing projects in solitude, I’ve been struck by the collective nature of scholarship. For instance, an upcoming publication has been read and shaped by no less than five other individuals (excluding informal readers of earlier drafts):...

Spoiler alert: I have tried not to include any major plot points in this review, but there are some minor spoilers. I’d recommend reading the book itself first!

A tradwife influencer wakes up one morning and finds herself thrown into the life of an actual pioneer homesteader on a rustic ranch. The basic premise of Caro Claire Burke’s smash debut no...

(Note: this post discusses sexual assault and murder as noted in scrpture. Reader discretion advised)

In her text, “Locating Hebrews Within the Literary Landscape of Christian Origins,”[1] Pamela M. Eisenbaum makes a decision that caused me to revisit a familiar passage of scripture in wh...

I was reading a New York Times opinion piece recently, titled “It’s Not Normal to Raise Children Like This.” The article laments the fact that many people in the modern West lack a “village,” people with whom we can share the intricacies of daily life and on whom we can mutually depend in times of need. Near the end of the article, the author describes the benefit of...

Last weekend I had the joyful experience of singing Evensong at Peterborough Cathedral. Sandwiched between a stage for a Radiohead tribute band, and the cast of the world’s largest dinosaur, the Titanosaur, on loan from the Natural History Museum, the service was both bizarre and brilliant.

The cast of the dinosaur is set up so that, from where I was sitting, it see...