Josephus: It’s Hard Having a Big Family
Even for kings, it turns out.
Even for kings, it turns out.
So the Evangelicals of the internet had a medium-sized explosion this past week as Matthew Barrett announced that he is becoming Anglican. The whole thing was interesting, and I’ve been…
On the visual in the verbal, the timeless in the temporal.
[This essay was originally posted in May of 2012. It is reposted here in its original form with only slight formatting changes.] Recent years have enjoyed a great renewal in…
One-upping the Romans in Christian epic.
By now we have all learned the rule that if a C S Lewis quote (or St. Augustine quote or a Martin Luther quote) doesn’t come with an actual citation,…
In the 160 years between the US Civil War and 2025, history and literature of the American South have offered an ahistorical blending of the politics and religion of the…
Metrical Martin Luther.
Vergil (and Ovid?) in Longfellow.
The sources for Tennyson’s great poem Ulysses are almost as, shall we say, polytropic as Homer’s Odysseus. But one of them, I am convinced, is Hamlet’s soliloquy in Hamlet 4.4,…
