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The Soul’s Bloody Doorposts: A Greek Epigram on the Passover
I haven’t posted a verse translation On Here in a while (since April 25th, in fact), and am trying to get back into it.…

Church Music Is Just the Worst (Circa 800)
Charlemagne had been carrying on his father’s mission to unite the chanting practices of western Europe under a single practice when he ran into…

Between Two Graves: Calvin on the Waters Above and Below
On rainfall and death.

Early Republic Southern Baptists, Education, and Populism
During the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries, North American Baptists joined their Congregationalist, Methodist, and Presbyterian counterparts in creating colleges and seminaries institutions…

Scrutinize Majesty and Be Crushed by Glory: Reason and the Trinity
Yesterday was the Feast of the Trinity, for which the traditional Gospel text comes from John 3:1-15. For this post, I’ve translated a brief…