About five years after the cool kids, I'm creating new notes on Substack. You can follow me there by going here . Please do so. And plea...

For members of the Presbyterian Church in America, June 24, 2025, marks the start of this year's General Assembly, the high point of the...

This afternoon, I read the homily of the newly-elected Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals. As a  Reforming Catholic , I appreciated mu...

You can go here to read Aaron Renn's most recent Substack, "Funerals Mandatory." In it Renn writes about his thoughts followi...

American law school hiring cycles begins earlier each year. For those interested in beginning a faculty position or moving to Raleigh as a l...

For anyone who'd like to listen to me, you can go here for my conversation with Anton Sorkin . Anton is Director of Student Ministries w...

In Religion and Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War  (Davenant Press 2024), Miles Smith, associate professor of h...

I first heard of Farah Stockman's "American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears" (Random House 2021) when she wa...

The warm thanks to   Frederick Buechner  in the Acknowledgments of John Irving's 1989 novel  A Prayer for Owen Meany  first caught my ey...

Go to your preferred podcast provider (Apple podcasts here ; Spotify here ) to listen to an hour of a  scintillating  conversion between Tim...

I've waited until the kerfuffle about Harrison Butker's commencement speech has almost--but not quite--faded into the trash bin of t...

Some observations by Austin Woolrych in his fine book "Commonwealth to Protectorate" (Clarendon Press 1982). While Woolrych's ...