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America is Awesome
On loving your country without losing your mind
Desert Fathers
What Deep Springs gave me
"The Preacher of a Religion, Such As It Is"
The Damnation of Theron Ware, or Illumination (1896)
What is a Pastor?
The boundary and the heart of an almost-heroic vocation
Yesterday's Men
Blood on the floor in Texas
Courting Madness in Amsterdam
Courting Madness in Amsterdam
After Progress
Is "progressive" the only way to think about alternatives to conservative Christianity?
Dancing at the Gallows
Rhine Valley Diarist
Can Churches Be Reformed?
The challenges of communion without accountability
I Can't Participate in Your Industrial Revolution Right Now
Because I am suffering from a bout of graphomania
Where the Roofs Are Tiled with Tarts
Hiding and Seeking in Munich
Eat This, Drink That
"Fictions of extraterritoriality" in Holy Week, plus new writing on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday
We Have Always Been Adjacent to Fascism
Monkey-brained in Berin
Headways
Dallas Diarist. Plus: new writing on being a type
Hopeless but not Serious
Vienna's empire in time
Angels in the Architecture
Rome Diarist. Plus: Reviewing a progressive attempt to catch up to Trumpism.
Blood in the Snow
On originals and covers
Best Churches of 2025
Notes of a visitor
Headroom
Living aesthetically in Naples. Plus my debut as a columnist